There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.
I have a collective sense of suffering.
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.
I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.
If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.
I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.
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