In addition to your mind being inseparably connected to and fed by man’s collective one, its ultimate interpretation and use of the thoughts it receives, is determined by the dictates of your own inherited genetic temperament. One in your local group may be of such a temperament that the thought of a potential military threat he gets from the collective cache makes his emotional state become one of anger, while your genetic temperament may be such that the same thought from the common source turns your emotional state to one of fear.
On no morning does any man know how he will feel when he awakens. His emotional state could be more or less determined by the prevailing local state, (if there be one), or in that absence, merely by his own temperamental reaction to a multitude of things. His physical health, the weather, his meal of the previous night, his degree of sexual arousal, and so on), none of which may come to his mind as bearing on his emotional state that morning. Even should such, life has programmed men’s minds to reject any subjugation to such strictly physical activities, but instead to assert, (with only itself as the captive audience for the assertion), its freewheeling dominion over mere emotional states caused by such crudities as anchovies and untimely horniness.
It is not that men do not take their own emotional state seriously, but what they do not engage with is a full frontal nude view of what is responsible for the states. Life is arranged so that men’s minds identify conditions as being responsible for their emotional states: “I feel fearful because I hear that our group may be soon attacked by another group and everyone around is frightened,” (unwittingly: the collective mind attribution), or: “I feel angry that the other group would threaten our group after all we have done for them,” (unknowingly: his own genetic temperament’s interpretation of the collective mind’s feed). In neither instance do ordinary men’s minds take into account the easily observable fact that man’s mind is programmed to incessantly and automatically think about potential dangers. It is its own self-produced source of bad news, both real and imagined.
If you are one of the few with that certain abstract genetic wiring, whose temperament drives you to seek escape from the mental crowd, then not realizing the above will cause you endless, yet needless, emotional pain and suffering. You will by turns, (according to your genetic makeup), be frightened, angry, depressed, and whatever other undesirable emotional description you care to add. Such emotions are certainly proper and needed when faced with actual threats to your wellbeing, but when their source is coming from only man’s collective mind, and finally filtered through your mind in a manner determined by your own genetic temperament, it is not to be taken seriously. It is like a fire drill in elementary school; a test to see if you are awake and alert.
J.