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Collective ego

The Collective Ego How hard is it to live with yourself? One way for the ego to get rid of what it doesn't like about itself is to expand and strengthen its sense of self through identification with a group - a nation, a political party, a corporation, a society, a sect,

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The collective opinion is

In reality, not all of your thoughts are yours. To be honest, you generally have very few thoughts, but on the contrary, there are a lot of strangers.

Collective or public opinion is the opinion of the majority. Until people learned how to manipulate it and turned it into an instrument of power, it was very useful in the process of evolution. At present, the collective opinion contains many false judgments.

What is collective opinion? This is magic for the initiated! The one who understands how society's opinion works gets the steering wheel and power in his hands.

Collective opinion is a powerful tool, the power of which is welcomed by any democratic institution from a public organization to the country as a whole. Collective opinion changes the power and courses of countries, throws people into poverty or raises them above the whole world, educates the spirit or takes away the will.

Otherwise, the collective opinion is called the opinion of the majority or public opinion, or the opinion of the masses, the opinion of the labor collective. But no matter how they call it, they always talk about it as a kind of truth and law, actions against which are unacceptable and can undermine the unshakable and fundamental laws of society.

Collective opinion is a set of assessments of society on a certain number of issues. People are arranged in such a way that when experiencing any events, they share their personal opinion on them with others, and they, in turn, receive some opinion, without even coming into contact with the events that this person told them about. Thus, a large number of people (society) have an opinion about the event which they were not a participant in. The formation of their views took place on the basis of collective opinion.

The formation of a collective opinion is a social process. The original opinion can be subject to the judgments of different people. There is a process of interaction, where a complex of individual judgments is synthesized. After some time, a stable collective opinion influences the educational processes in society. They support and unite the team, and then suppress people who have a different opinion. If the collective does not accept common moral values ​​(criminal society), it can reach tyranny.

In the USSR, it was customary to use collective opinion in educational work. Comrades' courts developed strongly. In fact, they were a general meeting of members of the team at which the issue of the misconduct of one or another member of the team was discussed.

Secondary school teachers often resorted to the use of public opinion in the education of students. They held meetings to discuss the personality of students, seeking to develop the belief that the collective is always right, and the individual is obliged to act within the framework of the collective opinion.

Formation of collective opinion

Every phenomenon has its origin and development. Collective opinion also goes through a series of steps. Each stingy development of collective opinion is connected with the previous one.

The first step in the formation of a collective opinion is only a hint that arose at the level of emotions, feelings, spiritual impulses in an individual or several members of society. The second stage is connected with the exchange of impressions from the feelings that have arisen, the expression of one's vision to another (second) person. The third stage begins when the third participant begins to disseminate information based on the story of the second. In this case, we can already talk about the launch of public opinion and the beginning of the discussion. From the moment of the exchange of judgments, the process of the emergence of a collective opinion begins.

The fourth stage is when carriers, leaders, experts who know more on this issue are determined in the collective opinion. They cement a single collective opinion.

The fifth stage is a fully formed collective opinion. This is the opinion of the majority. More than 50% of the group or population, with individuals included in this process who can be distinguished as experts, leaders, information carriers.

The sixth stage in the development of collective opinion is the transfer and dissemination of collective opinion to other groups of people, in which information carriers, leaders, and experts have appeared.

The seventh step is related to action. Various groups of citizens are taking all sorts of actions to solve these problems.

The goals of the actions are to ensure that this collective opinion is expressed in specific decisions, rules, laws, etc. Therefore, the possibility of this action in the future pushes for certain actions in the present. For example, people invest money to make a profit, or go to vote to build a road, or learn a foreign language to improve their well-being, and so on.

The seventh step is action to achieve improvement. The communists, as an improvement in life, promised people the construction of a brighter future, which turned out to be a myth, but in reality only worsened the condition of people. After a while, it turned out that the road to hell was paved with the good intentions of the Communist Party. The formation of collective opinion occurs under the influence of everyday life circumstances. Its formation is strongly influenced by the living conditions of individuals.

Collective opinion is not always the ultimate truth. More often the opposite. The collective opinion is infected with viruses of social infections, programs of alien, often government interests, and is a tool for managing people in their upbringing. The ruling apparatus is always trying to include its own formulas in public opinion. He propagates the idea that a person who has comprehended only his own experience is primitive and does not have the opportunity to form accurate views.

A.A. Weissburg, apparently fulfilling an order “from above,” says, “In the process of accumulating personal experience that is not associated with the use of means of ideological and political education, an ordinary consciousness is formed, as a rule, which, due to primitivism and subjectivism, does not always provide a correct understanding by people public interest." These formulations form the basis of teaching students around the world. Therefore, young scientists are supposed to interfere in every possible way in the collective opinion through the media, resorting to suggestions, persuasion, explanatory work, etc.

As a result, at present, each individual does not have his own personal opinion, but the opinion that he received from outside. The course of the process of forming an opinion is affected by the very nature of the phenomenon on which the collective opinion is formed, interest in it, and the magnitude of the education of the team. There are many different methods for forming a healthy, effective collective opinion. But these methods should not be applied indiscriminately. They must be used kindly, for the benefit of society and in accordance with the logic of the formation of collective opinion.

Collective opinion as a means of manipulation

The collective is always superior to the individual. Subordination to the opinion of society and the collective is a reflex phenomenon. As a rule, violators are punished with terrible general condemnation. Many hard-hitting arguments are ready for them, capable of condemning the unfortunate and convincing the negligent to return to the bosom of the established opinions of the masses. Within society, it is possible to elevate individuals to the level of celestials and lower other people into social abysses, or create taboos, or, as it used to be, shoot dissidents by the thousands. In fact, the opinion of the masses often turns out to be a screen behind which the interests of states, clans and individuals are hidden. This may mean that, in reality, belief in public or collective opinion is an infiltrated virus of consciousness, which, among other things, performs the functions of managing the public. This virus Trojan seems to be harmless as long as it is not used against the moral foundations and life of a person, but this is not always the case.

Sometimes, relying on collective opinion, someone tries to humiliate or morally crush you. Most often, an action is carried out against you not in the interests of society, but only of some representatives of the clan. Let us turn to examples in order to understand some of the gaps in the mass, social structure. These will be rather cruel examples affecting the social structure and exposing its dangers.

Suppose society is preparing for elections, to which everyone is invited except those who are not yet 18 years old. In other words, everyone but sane people under 18 go to the polls. They are considered children. It is for them that the whole society lives, but they are excluded from the election process. They do not invite to the elections precisely those for whom practically every person on earth lives and in what he finds the meaning of his life. Why were those who were labeled “children” excluded from the list in advance? Such questions can be asked to a more civilized society than the one in which we live. Today's realities are such that the law has rejected their opinion as second-rate and incapable, which means that future elected representatives: deputies, mayors, various heads, etc., no longer have to focus on the non-voting part of society. Is it possible now to talk about the opinion of the whole society, if a significant part of it. Sometimes 40% of the population is simply not allowed to vote.

But, for example, the alcoholic Vasya came to the polls. True, he did this not because he decided to show his civic position, just one of the candidates promised him his coveted alcohol. So is Vasya's intellect and logical abilities comparable to the person on whom the label of a child lies? Of course, when conducting psychological testing, our hypothetical Vasya will lose. Is a schoolboy worse than those crazy people who are allowed to vote? But they vote in hospitals. All over the world, with the will of the people, the opinion of the most responsible, sensitive, enterprising part of society, which are children, is rejected. Children are labeled as minors, and even the very word child is already a restriction of the right. Doubt it? Then how do you react to someone who calls you a child? In court, you can prove that this word is an insult to you.

All this is a very good example in order to see the imperceptible mechanism of the collective opinion. The situation is a reflection of our attitude towards children in general. We always expect them to make mistakes and rigidly reshape their psyche to fit the norms of society, often erroneous, honest relations between adults and children are below and beyond the relationship between adults and alcoholics and crazy people. Humane principles, the very basis of love, humanity come to our souls in childhood. To become better and more humane to the whole society, it is enough just to start trusting children completely. And carefully nurture in children this, the very present, the future of planet Earth.

Today it's completely the opposite. And it's very sad. It is worth, for example, to look at the school system in order to see the mistakes that we make only from our attitude towards children as inferior citizens, and not small people.

For example, what worldview is given to children if there is no spiritual relationship between the teacher and the child in schools? Absolutely negative outlook. It is worth talking with schoolchildren to understand that at school the child feels a hostile environment, where teachers act as enforcers, and do not entail creativity and spirituality on the wings. In the view of children, the school is a forced evil, where you have to adapt, dissemble, deceive in order to get the least possible evil. At school, a child needs to get good grades, but spend as little work on it as possible and put on a mask suitable for universal approval to hide a quivering and sensitive soul deeper.

Humiliation and deception, tricks, pretense and cunning - these are legitimate weapons for the protection of the child's personality find their full use. In most modern schools, future citizens hone their survival skills. Teachers attack and force—children defend themselves and adopt new ways of adapting. At the same time, at home, students often find approval for their actions in the face of their parents. The views of parents on the education system are almost the same as those of their children, and there are small differences.

Thus begins the upbringing of disrespect for authority. This means that the degree of expectation from the authorities as a whole is also not great. Power limits - the people adapt. This is what misunderstandings lead to. This is how the snowball of society's problems grows. But the examples of bad social order do not end there.