Having spent time posting and reading the political threads in the past weeks, my enduring impression is that society is experiencing a case of mass-minded madness.
Packs of posters patrol the threads on HC to attack, humiliate, abuse and negate any post that that is not in line with the right-wing ideology of groups such as the ON party.
Sadly, while right wing leaders are leading the lemmings to the thawing permafrost of Siberia, the only few rational voices expressed by the greenies, looneys and wackos are being drowned out by the chorus: Muslims are not welcome because they will force all Australians to be like them.
Carl Jung said the bigger the crowd the more irrational it becomes. He was misunderstood by most because he was rude and abrasive, and when he said he saw oceans of blood before the onset of WW1 he was not believed.
Nor was he believed in the thirties when he warned the world about Hitler and Stalin. But he should be heeded when he says a culture of mass-minded thinking can only lead to catastrophe.
That is because the individuals in the crowd no longer think for themselves. Like lemmings they continue to follow the party line even when the cliff edge is visible.
It’s not too late---when a greenie, looney or wacko posts, read it twice before going into a left-brained rage.
Those right-brained posts are sentinels in the darkness and those brave voices are giving you an opportunity to see you are being herded by self-serving leaders.
