At a time when all attention turned to the collective, thinking about the coronavirus pandemic, which started in 2020 and unfortunately is not over yet, I think it's interesting to talk a little about the collective unconscious. We are seeing people crowding into parties and events as if nothing is happening and, on the other hand, we see other people absolutely stunned by this reality. If we are all part of the same team trying to protect ourselves against a disease that can kill up to 5% of people who contract it, why do some people party while others maintain isolation?
We may think it's just a lack of character, but I think the hole is deeper. Not that there aren't people without character doing this sort of thing, but I don't think most are. What you see are people from all walks of life, from all backgrounds and from all creeds, having absolutely irrational attitudes. And yes, they are irrational, they are following unconscious patterns.
What are the standards then? In fact, there's no way to know. It could be some kind of attempt to deny the facts, a collective defense mechanism, a way of being Maria goes with the others, for example, because since everyone goes, I go too. Or even, a certain suicidal and why not say, homicidal impulse to work.
The thing is, people do things for a reason and that's the big problem. Most human beings are not responsible for their own actions and, most of the time, this is due to a lack of conscience.
Everything we don't know about ourselves is inside our unconscious and everything we don't know about the collective is inside the collective unconscious. So the motivations can be of various kinds. The reality, however, is that, as Freud said, humanity maintains its death instinct pattern.
In short, a lot, but a lot is the homeostatic mechanism of the collective. It's kind of like trying to balance the number of births with the number of deaths. And yes, I know this is a macabre subject and very difficult to swallow. However, we need to deal with the shadows of the human, especially when we talk about the shadows of the collective.
World War II killed 75 million people. It lasted for around five years and was entirely provoked by humans. As much as crowding on a beach seems like a homicidal attitude, as I mentioned above, it is far from being the worst of humanity. And no, I'm not agreeing with the agglomerations. I'm just trying to understand why they happen.
Is it really that the ideal world, within this matrix we live in, is a world full of birds and rainbows? All good needs evil to balance, all Yin needs its Yang and, in the degree of human consciousness in which we live, it is still difficult for us to hit the hammer and say that everyone is good or that everyone is bad.
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But instead of connecting to that energy, the best thing we can do is maintain our awareness. If within your consciousness there is isolation, thinking about the whole, know that this puts you on another level, but when we enter the judgment, without considering all the variables, we are being like them. It is not easy to swallow this truth, but the world will continue to have absurdities and problems. We're not getting rid of our shadow anytime soon.
