There is much talk about "awakening" people, about the salvation of the masses, without considering a simple truth: the masses do not want to be saved. The mass is, by definition, something to be kneaded, shaped, and moulded—it exists to be acted upon. The essence of the masses is formed from a single ingredient: complicity [1]. Complicity means accepting guilt without acknowledging it, acting not from personal conviction but simply following orders. It removes the sense of personal responsibility, for in complicity, one merely complies. But who asks for this compliance? Others. These "Others"—and perhaps "that" would be a more accurate term—are not individual humans in a moral or thoughtful sense but extensions of the collective mindless will. They are complicit but without awareness of their complicity.Complicity, in this sense, is participation in an endless chain of obedience, a chain without a visible end because the end is deliberately obscured. Ev...
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