Status Updates From The Undiscovered Self

‘The suffocating power of the masses is paraded before our eyes in one form or another every day in the newspapers, and the insignificance of the individual is rubbed into him so thoroughly that he loses
all hope of making himself heard.’

‘As experience unfortunately shows, the inner man remains unchanged however much community he has. His environment cannot give him as a gift that which he can win for himself only with effort and suffering (a deep-seated change of the inner self).’

‘In actual fact, society is nothing more than an abstract idea like the State. Both are hypostatised, that is, have become autonomous. The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. ** In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.’ **