nothingness that shines in front of him. To make the matter worse the vacuum is filled with political and social ideas marked by absurd and spiritual emptiness”. People not knowing who they are and therefore lacking their own identity become part of a crowd, easily controlled and following any idea. And this is exactly what’s been happening: people like a herd follow the “Sheppard” wherever he leads them. And the question is only in WHO is the “originator” of the idea. That would determine the crowd’s direction: whether it be it the “bright communist future” or the gas chambers of fascism. One way or the other, the human is always controlled by the collective unconscious, myths and symbols created by some one in the past.
Mythology was first used to help primitive man to explain natural phenomena, but more so it helped him live through the discrepancy between his “evolutionized” conscious mind and that of the unconscious with its animal-like horrors and fears. Come to think of it this very gap between the conscious and unconscious spheres is presented in the Bible as the Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise, and in his attempts to bring back the lost harmony human turned to mythology, fairy-tales, magic, etc. Ironically the evolutionary process only increased the chasm between both spheres demanding more myths not just for dealing with his intense fear and anxiety but with the continuous sense of insecurity, the issue being that of the adjustment to his inner world. This gave rise to modern mythology with stories not of heroes but the cellulite, since the latter is more vital to modern man whose inside is filled with gaping emptiness. Science and technology being the product of the conscious mind may be regarded as a tool to keep reality in
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