Life of the Sailor

As emigrants we made a tremendous voyage inside of our psyche. I believed that our sailor’s spirit would never die. We are not afraid to sail away from the radical settings and be happy. By being sailors we are changing the reactions of chemicals in our brain. We are opposite to any radical collective, which is also changing our brain’s chemistry with the goal to control us. The radical collective wants to make us analogues and easy to manipulate. Many sailors resisted the power of collective.

The collective identity is one which was imposed on us by the ideology, lifestyle or circumstances, which come from the outside of our psyche. It is pressuring all our responses to be attached to the outside world. The unrelated groups such as Liberals, Peasants, Aristocrats, and Gorilla Fighters are assuming that they have collective identities. Some societies provide us with the collective identity by displaying an external standard mirror, designed by the set of collective rules and want every member to adjust their psyche accordingly. The leaders of collectives are controlling the followers through audio, visual and kinesthetic slogans. They have visual slogans in the form of big constructions, paintings and posters. The kinesthetic slogans are in the form of meetings, parades and demonstrations. The audio slogans are in speeches, and music. All slogans are using pathos and grandeur, because they are exploiting our desire to be important and belong to something bigger. Some collectives are old style, peaceful, flexible and democratic, and we voluntarily become part of the big collective, where we may well keep some degree of individuality and selfishness. Some collectives are taking us by force and do not let us go. Those collectives are radicalized, very punitive, demanding the complete obedience, unwilling to negotiate, and using confrontation and manipulation. They are forcing us by the threat of death to create a standardized psyche. They are talking about the special design they were granted by a legacy of being a selected group.

Some psyches are having the natural resistance to the virus of radicalization. Some leaders, for example Cromwell, Garibaldi, Abraham Lincoln, etc., had a strong identity and had been immune to the virus of radicalization, which did not affect their brain cells. For many the exposure to the virus of radicalization is changing the configuration of their brain cells and, in a certain way, without their conscious awareness, they are becoming a part of the collective. The secret is why some collectives get radicalized and how avoid it. Right now we know only that the radicalization of our minds is comparable only to a computer virus. With excessive research in anthropology we probably would be able to understand where this virus gets started. Further, we will talk only about radicalized collectives and try to understand them.

The common trend of the radicalized collective is that the virus represents self in an infliction in our minds. The main symptom is that we are emotionally numb and disregarding, who are not a part of our group. The virus of radicalization narcotizes us against discomfort of being a butcher of the individuality and self. The radicalized collective is making promises, which surely would not be fulfilled. By bringing a reward in the form of feelings of camaraderie the virus is luring us into the trap of radicalization. The virus is providing illusion of unification by putting in front the unreachable goals. It actually made the infected proud to be participating in something big. The fictitious goals are luring members to think that they are building a solid identity. In reality the members are only brainwashed. Their identity is still fragmented.

Some collectives are promising lots of food for a country which was always starving. The collectives are talking about Valhalla and the victory of the great spirit, when, contradictory to the high spirits, they were pushing their subjects to get rotten in the trenches and completely out of style for the superhuman, pushing civilians to their death in the gas chambers. Some collectives are promising innocent children, who never had intercourse, that after their death, for promoting a collective‘s cause, they would be residing in a heavenly environment with many concubines around them. Because of future expectations, the brains, affected by a virus, are developing feelings of emotional numbness to surroundings and unfounded feelings of superiority. Unfortunately for many of us the radicalized collective are creating a new organization in our minds by using pretension together with brutal force. The radicalization of our psyche by the forceful approach is creating a lot of resentments and is producing a split of our identity.

Less demanding collectives are attractive to us, because they are using more sophisticated slogans. But, those collectives also do not survive the tests of time because, eventually, they too are becoming bloody and vicious. The ideologists, the same as hackers in computers, are brainwashing the minds of the crowd and lowering a resistance to their messages. Their stereotypes imply that the collective mind is better than the individual. The agitators pushed us into believing that in the big structures of collective we are not important, and we supposed to forget our own thoughts and desires and just obey the collective.

Many of us honestly fall for these slogans of the radicals. We think that the collective mirror is reflecting the very safe responses, which were approved by the majority and that collective knows better what is good for us. Unfortunately, the primitive stereotypes are very appealing and many of them, provided by ideologists of the radicalized collective, are easily absorbed by us and we are ready to give up our self. Many of us with a big hole and defects in our individual mirror find that it is very attractive to be a part of the collective, because the collective mirror is immediately covering the damages in our psyche and giving the illusion of the unordinary identity.

In few radicalized collectives the ideologists implied that, if we have working class background, we are inherently smart, which is very inviting. In collectives the propaganda was that all belonging to the same ethnicity, or have the same religious background, are superior. This is the easiest way to avoid a dissent, because if the messenger is not appearing equal to other members, then the message is not accepted. When we are killing an insignificant mosquito, we do not think about his message. The radicalized collective would not accept the individual messenger as a partner, because the individual messenger is not equal to the collective. In the same way the radicalized collective mind would never accept from an individual a quest for peace and a dialog.

The internal process in the individual mind is poles apart from the collective mind. Because we are living without any ideology and ideologists, it is harder to depend on our own self than on collective. The collective, who is dominated by ideologies, gives a simplified solution to any of our problems. The shrewd individuals with aggressive and violent tendencies are easily taking advantage of the system of the collective, which is covering a split in the psyche, and they are skillfully manipulating a myth to satisfy their own wishes.

Fortunately, until now, the type of organization, which was based on false promises, was not strong enough to survive for a long time. After the crash of doctrines the members are trying to understand the reason why that their collective image was easily defeated. After the crash of a myth of being unordinary, we, as disillusioned members, are eventually realizing that external mirror authority would not bring a congruency between the parts of our psyche.