another angle at collective existentialism

Do you ever have those "grrr" moments where you know that what you are saying is both new and correct, and it seems like no one will just take what you are saying as a potential solution, instead getting bogged down in how some aspect of the idea could never work?

In these moments, right or wrong, we can feel very alone. It's as if we are experiencing the world by ourselves, instead of collectively. We also see other people as both trapped and in cahouts, intensifying the lonliness. I offer collective existentialism (CE) as a way to understand this perception.

The aspect of CE that I maybe didn't stress enough in my last post is that people cannot experience reality fully when they are subject to collective existential forces. This is not a choice of theirs, however much of a choice or precess of seduction the initial leap into CE was. And so, this concept is along the lines of many anti-groupthink, anti-media concepts but provides a different focus, a different angle for compassion, and a different strategy for change.

The strategy for change is key, and what I wish to flesh out. How can we end the now-unconscious cycle of CE in an individual. I believe that this could be done using the same kind of tools that a spiritual guru might utilize. Essentially, one who wishes to end CE in another must simply experience reality in a charismatic way around that other person. I think examples of this should be obvious, take watching a grieving widow, if charismatic, for example. And of course the charisma would depends on the experience.

That's all and well, you might say, but what about dealing with groups? How can one really affect a group, all under the spell of CE, through mere charisma? The short answer is that most people cannot, and attempting to will make one feel attacked from all sides, having potentially serious long-term psychological effects. This is of course because the individual would be attacked from all sides by the varied, unconscious resistance of each individual in the group. Poison arrows with different poison on each because, we must keep in mind, it is CE that is the illusion and each inidividual succumbs to it in different ways.

In the end, we must all focus on ourselves and lead by example in this arena, thereby lessening the need for the great charismatic leaders that come so infrequently. Keep in mind, too, that some aspect of experience that for you has always come naturally, might be the greatest struggle for another individual who has succumbed to a deadened collective exestential attitude toward that aspect of experience. You could be the example that helps set that individual free, the key to their birthright paradise.