Step 1:
Break up the small group! Break up people who were originally based on kinship, friends, and lovers, firstly to eliminate people's natural related attributes, and secondly to instill the idea of "equality". The so-called equality means that no matter what the original class and natural conditions are, in this new collective, all people must join in the same attitude.
The rationale: Good and bad pairings help with learning and progress.
Step 2:
Instill the concepts of "discipline" and "solidarity"! Through mechanical exercises and physical exercise, people's obedience to the precepts is strengthened. When dealing with superiors, fixed honorifics must be used, and speeches must obey certain rules. At this time, people begin to feel the power of the group, and achieve psychological unity through physical training. Let people realize that "I" and "collective" are inseparable, and "I" begins to identify with "collective".
The reason is: standing up to speak to promote blood circulation, help clear mind.
The third step:
Use the "uniform" and unified logo to further strengthen the collective form, and people's sense of collective identity is further strengthened. Those who disobey are markedly marginalized and ostracized. Mutual aid and fraternity-like camaraderie arose among the collectives. A cult following is emerging.
The reason is: there is no need for reasons at this time, the collective has been hatched at this time, and it has begun to have its own vitality.
Step 4:
Some people start to use the collective name to engage in activities. The stronger the cohesion within the collective, the higher the efficiency of external diffusion. More and more people are drawn into the collective, uniform uniform, uniform logo, uniform gesture. At this point, the situation was no longer under the control of the original promoters, and the collective began to grow wildly and set about actively eradicating dissidents.
There is no need for a reason, just like a living snake, at this time it is powerless to stop him from fleeing.
Step 5:
Collectively grow into a highly united, ambitious group with clear political views. The originator is cult adored and has a large and die-hard following. Those who tried to stop the momentum were unhesitatingly labelled "traitors", and people tipped off each other "for the collective good." So far, a miniature Third Reich has all the internal organs. A group of children who grew up in a democratic country and were educated by the awareness of equality, completely transformed in just one week.
When the "leader" (teacher), who suddenly woke up, tried to explain to everyone what this experiment was trying to make everyone understand, he was actively resisted by the fanatics. In fact, even if there is no teacher at this time, the collective will quickly find a replacement to keep the already-born dictatorship alive.
This is a story that takes place on an American campus, but the background of the remake is more meaningful in Germany. At the end of the adaptation, a country notorious for being a Nazi during World War II paid a heavy price for a teacher obsessed with his own little leadership. Perhaps for the Germans who were bitten by the fascist serpent, what kind of self-reflection, what kind of remorse and what kind of caution is not an exaggeration.
Le Pen once discussed the collective unconscious in his "The Crowd". When the individual dissolves in the collective, it is easy to relax the moral standards of the individual, and with the collective atrocities, the violence and evil emanate tenfold and a hundredfold. And the psychological scars and dissatisfaction of the individual can easily be satisfied and comforted by the strong connection between people in the group. In order to make up for the dissatisfaction of the ego and eliminate pain, the more the ego identifies with the collective and the more common it is, the more it lacks individuality and lacks the humanity that a person should have.
The identification of the soul with the self is an unwholesome act in the eyes of the wise. Putting the ego into the larger ego is still a personal ego. Me, my family, my religion, my people, my collective, my country, my planet...and my universe. No matter how extortionate it may be, the void of "I" never seems to be filled. As for the dictatorship, if it doesn't start with repairing the tiny "Is", I really feel that no matter how horrible it is, it can't reach the abyss of people's hearts.
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