“The world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.” –The Origins of Totalitarianism
When humans began to gather in collectives, they entered into an agreement which sought to establish peace and security. Civilization emerged from this and has paved the road of human ruin ever since. A brilliant human philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, went as far as to describe the social contract as only inspiring evil and corrupting the very essence of man. Hannah Arendt draws our focus to German-born refugees who lost their citizenship due to government ran propaganda. Stripped of their identity, by removal of their citizenship, the surrounding European countries found them unfit to take in. They were humans devoid of identity.
This social agreement provided for the base needs of humans. With these desires adequately, and continually, sated “they began to imagine the expanse of their self-interests.” These new interests revolved around status, political affiliations, and social presence to name a few. Essentially, these imagined interests hold no actual significant value outside of the civilization construct. Yet within, they are determining factors when it comes to human identity. The individual human is of no significance to the collective unless they posses influence in some sense, and to have influence, one must conform and submit to the established system. Rousseau calls this Amour-Propre: the value that we give ourselves on the basis of receiving recognition from others.
This social agreement provided for the base needs of humans. With these desires adequately, and continually, sated “they began to imagine the expanse of their self-interests.” These new interests revolved around status, political affiliations, and social presence to name a few. Essentially, these imagined interests hold no actual significant value outside of the civilization construct. Yet within, they are determining factors when it comes to human identity. The individual human is of no significance to the collective unless they posses influence in some sense, and to have influence, one must conform and submit to the established system. Rousseau calls this Amour-Propre: the value that we give ourselves on the basis of receiving recognition from others.
The citizen mentality is inherently inflamed, irrational, and incapable of individual reasoning. This, Rousseau points out, is at its worst in large metropolitan areas as humans are furthest from their natural state and nature itself. Research has shown that humans who live in larger cities do not understand how to properly cope with reality. In fact, city density has a direct effect on the mental health of its population. The larger and more populated a city becomes, the more its population undergoes an increase to stimulus. “Every part of the urban environment is deliberately designed to assert meanings and messages. These stimuli trigger action and thought on a latent [subconscious] level of awareness, and become more potent as an inability to ‘cope’ sets in.” This psychological effect is known as Overload, named by the social scientist, Stanley Milgram. The human mind is unable to fully cope with the cognitive overload that major metropolitan areas push on the individual. This inability to cope is called cognitive dissonance: the human cannot fully comprehend nor properly accept the world they live in.
In order to avoid psychological dissociation by the human mind, the citizen is indoctrinated at birth. This method provides a subtle, yet continuous, way to bypass natural, conscious, psychological defenses with regards to individualism and uniqueness. From the moment of birth, the human is integrated into the system.
The United Nations maritime laws dictate that when ships pull into birthing, they must present a Certification of Manifest, or worth of goods on board. This is due to the cargo transitioning from maritime law to the law of the land. When a human child is born from the watery womb, it enters into the law of the land which is why they are numbered, given value, and are presented with a certificate. From here, the child is taught the ways of this world through cultural, societal, political, racial, and educational programming over the course of their life.
Through the construction of civilization, individual human identity and uniqueness was dismantled and done away with. The human has now become a resource, fully indoctrinated with the citizen mentality. Today, the movement is underway to unite every human under one banner, creating the perfected Global Citizen. Even though you and I may resist the idea of a standardized global citizen, they are currently indoctrinating your children.