Even though we live our common life immersed in them, human society is difficult to understand. It is difficult to understand where the individual ends and the collective begins. But, it is even more difficult to find ourselves as individuals within the confines of the whole. We do not know exactly if society is the sum of individual efforts, or the individual is a product of the society in which he is immersed. In other words, when I desire something, how do you know whether the impulse is generated genuinely within my inner being or by the influence of the environment?
Imagine that we travel back in time one hundred years and try to explain to people of the time about concepts like Facebook, Foursquare and other social media and internet tools. How many will find it attractive to share their intimacies with the entire world?
I think only a few.
In the case, we are both human, but the community psyche of the time was different.
The question here is: Should we, as humans, worry about pursuing our individual essence? Or just surrender to the idea of the community psyche modified by the influence of the masses?
M. Ch. Landa
