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Mass Brain Damage
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Mass Mind Brain Damage
Not just personal brain damage, not just one individual brain damage.
Brain damage of entire groups, mass mind brain damage. Mass man brain damage.
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“The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” - Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto
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"Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century" - Howard Bloom, New York City
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“Along with ideological indoctrination, a vital factor touched upon but not fully explored in Milgram’s experiments was conformity to the group. The battalion had orders to kill Jews, but each individual did not. Yet 80 to 90 percent of the men proceeded to kill, though almost all of them—at least initially—were horrified and disgusted by what they were doing. To break ranks and step out, to adopt overtly nonconformist behavior, was simply beyond most of the men. It was easier for them to shoot.” ― Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, 1992
“Segmented, routinized, and depersonalized, the job of the bureaucrat or specialist—whether it involved confiscating property, scheduling trains, drafting legislation, sending telegrams, or compiling lists—could be performed without confronting the reality of mass murder.” ― Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland