group dynamic?

On reading of another deadline passing in which to prevent catastrophic climate change I began to consider the possibility that our collective structures evolve at an alarmingly slow rate in relation to the minds of their constituent members, this being the case, we must consider that groups intelligence is not in fact an amplification of individual will/wills, but rather a separate consciousness and one possessing alarmingly infantile tendencies: violent self interest, inability to empathise and lack of foresight to name just a few.


Has this been the problem for transcendent systems that require a maturity not only on the part of the individual but on the part of the group; is it possible that the failure of the last centuries revolutions was due not to a deficit between political aspiration and individual self interest but an immaturity on the part of the state itself? An immaturity that then fed down to the individual, a feedback that aggravated the counter revolutionary tendencies already present; the cynical gap between propaganda and truth is thus eroded, individuals utilize the most simplistic reading of revolutionary doctrine (reading not easily refuted: as complexity itself is seen as bourgeois).


This brings us to the persistence of capitalism; how is it that we remain tied to a system even though aware that it is dangerously flawed: promoting inequality and destroying the ability of the planet to support humanity? We are often told that capitalism is the most accurate reflection of human nature, is this not again the feedback from a collective mind still in its infancy? We now have the technology to create a genuinely progressive state but we are constantly told that transcendent politics leads to brutal dictatorship, the truth is that while we have individually matured to the degree that we can perceive the problems we face, collectively we are still trapped in an infantile matrix, what is more due to the advanced nature of communications the feedback from our collective self is now eroding the very ability of individuals to transcend our condition. There has always been paradigmatic space between the collective body and the individual, perversely the danger arises when we see the state as accurately reflecting our will; for at this point our aspirations have reduced to the simplistic self interest of the juvenile group mindset.