[MD] Social Imposition ?

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[DMB]
I would defy anyone here to conceive of any thing in the universe that is not
BOTH an individual and also part of larger, collective entity.

[Platt]
Mind. There is no collective mind.

[Arlo]
Sure there is. The Mythos, Pirsig calls it.

"Religion isn’t invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent
responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what
they themselves are. You know something and then the Quality stimulus hits and
then you try to define the Quality stimulus, but to define it all you’ve got
to work with is what you know. So your definition is made up of what you know.
It’s an analogue to what you already know. It has to be. It can’t be
anything else. And the mythos grows this way. By analogies to what is known
before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues.
These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every
last bit of it." (ZMM)