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Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Why are humans drawn to ideas like filings to a magnet?
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
“Japan is a society of groups, not individuals.”
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
The individual is a cell in the social superorganism. When he feels he is no longer necessary to the larger group, he, too, begins to wither away.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
do strive as individuals, but we are also part of something larger than ourselves, with a complex physiology and mental life that we carry out but only dimly understand.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
POVERTY WITH PRESTIGE IS BETTER THAN AFFLUENT DISGRACE
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
When the pecking order status of a national superorganism slides, a frustrated populace looks for someone to blame, preferably a character located conveniently close to home.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Durkheim seemed to sense that beneath the surface, the suicide was destroying himself to rid the wider social group of a burden.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order—these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.