This was an interesting video – “the Psychology of Conformity”:
As i wrote some time back: Mankind has for long lived in a social society, and are all in relation to the horde – which has had a conforming effect upon everyone’s mind – going insane can break that conformity – see, we are all wearing masks, afraid to step-out of that role…
As Jim Morrison said once:
“That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
Man has, through living among other people, become a conformist, afraid to truly break on through to the other side…
Everyone has lived in the confines of a social society, for too long, to see other-wards – so we put on a mask, to be liked, afraid of breaking that act and lose our masks, thus becoming what we truly are.
That’s the illusion, that you’re suppose to blend in and walk a line in relation to other humans.
The true freespirit ventures away from the social landscape, to rather be alone in the wild – to shun the social-confine of people relating to other people..
Personally, i can’t understand how anyone can stand living in a social world..
Personally, i want to be by an ancient lake under the ancient moon, ALONE…i want to get away from the social horde of people – i feel much better being in the woods, alone, where the mind can wander freely..