¶ Crowd-reflexing
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RBF Definitions
“Chagrin and mortification caused by their progressively self-discovered quadrillions of errors would have given humanity such an inferiority complex that it would have become too discouraged to continue with the life experience. To offset this, humans were designedly given a pride and vanity which can–and usually does–tend to self-deception. Witnessing the mistakes of others, the preconditioned crowd-reflexing says, ‘Why did that individual make such a stupid mistake?.. We knew the answer all the time.’… So effective has been the nonthinking, group self-deceit of humanity that it now says, ‘Nobody should make mistakes,’ and punishes people for making mistakes. In love-bred fear for their children’s future life in the days to come beyond that of their own survival, parents train their children to avoid making mistakes lest they be put to social disadvantage.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to Bro. Jos. Chuala, p.2; 7 Nov’75
