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A “collective” mind does not exist. it is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. if we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. we get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.
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A “collective” Mind Does Not Exist. It

Ayn Rand
A “collective” mind does not exist. it is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. if we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. we get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.
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