201212 What I learned in my studies this morning

Tao for today:

From Eric Hoffer, Identification With A Collective Whole:

A mental / psychological / spiritual connection to a group or community  allows for a much more robust resistance to intimidation / torture by others. 

Want to break someone? Convince them they are individual first. That they have no strength outside themselves. There is no connection to a continuous, undying whole. 


(The True Believer, XII-45)

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