Group Talk

Integrating a group, aggregating into bands of lost souls…
(At a certain level, at least, for this feeling of being lost is the driving force behind the intention to aggregate to anything which gives an impression not to be so.)
So, of course, we can say that the lost souls, once aggregated to others, can find find a form of fulfillment, realize themselves in a common way perhaps,

Nevertheless, the conviction they acquire once in a group is reinforced by the very fact of being in a group,
It is the group that cements the group,
Internal and external communication of the group is necessarily tautological
Group talk necessarily repeats and reinforces group talk.
This is the result of its primary function.

Even when no one really knows what they believe on an individual level, within the group, they will repeat what the group believes and progressively make it theirs.
In this act of repetition, one’s desire to belong to the group is satisfied each time.

Only the individual who values the authenticity of a talk more than its securing social and psychological reassuring functions, ready to individuate, speaks words worth listening to.

Sometimes you have to wait hundreds of years before that ever happens.

Franck – August 2023
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