The Revolution of the Dialectic: Gregarious Conduct

Gregarious Conduct

Gregarious conduct is a tendency that the human machine allows. This tendency is to ally itself with other human machines without distinction or control of any type.

Let us examine what one does when in a group or in a crowd. I am sure that very few people would dare go out into the street and throw stones at someone. However, when in a group, they do so. Someone can slip into a public demonstration and become fired up with enthusiasm; thus, they end up joining the masses in throwing stones. Although, later he will ask himself, why did I do that?

The human being behaves very differently when he is in a crowd. He does things that he would not normally do when he is alone. Why does this happen? This occurs because he opens the doors (his senses) to negative impressions and he ends up doing things that he would never do if he were alone.

When one opens the doors to negative impressions, one not only alters the order of the emotional center which is in the heart, but moreover one makes this center negative. For example, if somebody we know is filled with anger because another person hurt him, we open our doors to those impressions and end up taking the side of our friend and feeling animosity towards the one who hurt him. We too become filled with anger, without even having played a part in the matter.

Let us suppose that one opens the doors to a negative impression of a drunkard; one then ends up accepting a drink, then another, and another, and so forth. In conclusion, one ends up being a drunkard too.

Let us suppose that one opens the doors to the negative impressions of a person of the opposite sex; most likely, one ends up fornicating and committing all types of transgressions.

If we open the doors to the negative impressions of a drug addict, then maybe we will end up smoking marijuana or consuming some type of intoxicants. As a conclusion, failure will come.

Thus, this is the way that human beings infect each other within their negative atmospheres. Thieves alter other people into becoming thieves. Murderers infect someone else. Drug addicts infect other people. This is how drug addicts, thieves, usurers, murderers, etc., multiply. Why? Because we commit the error of always opening our doors to negative emotions and this is never right. Therefore, let us select our emotions.

If someone brings us positive emotions of light, beauty, harmony, happiness, love, and perfection, then let us open the doors of our heart to him. But if someone brings us negative emotions of hate, violence, jealousy, drugs, alcohol, fornication and adultery, why should we open the doors of our heart to him? Let us close them! Close the doors to all negative emotions.

When one reflects on gregarious conduct, one can modify it perfectly and make something better out of life.