COLLECTIVE-THINK

1. is always closer to bank-think than individual reasoning. That's because the bank is the one constant people have in common. And it's crazy. So almost any individual alive can plan better than a group will execute and certainly better than a group can plan. Scn groups are far superior to human groups. But the rule still applies that collective-think is always less sane than the thinking of an individual. (HCO PL 18 Jan 65) 2. every human has in common with every other human the same reactive bank. This is the most they have in common. The reactive bank -unconscious mind, whatever you care to call it-suppresses all decent impulses and enforces the bad ones. Therefore a Democracy is a collective-think of reactive banks. Popular opinion is bank-opinion. Collective-think is basically bank. (HCO PL 13 Feb 65)