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How are those foolish people formed? They are also called the "basic group," and it's not an intelligence issue but a state shaped by structural forces. It stems from long-term institutional arrangements, cultural domestication, and power relations, gradually causing individuals to lose subjectivity: they do not judge, question, or take responsibility, only learn to obey. In this state, oppression is seen as order, sacrifice is justified as tradition, and "it's always been like this" becomes the very legitimacy. Institutions devour individuals, the strong consume the weak, and abstract moral discourse is used to mask concrete harm. When life is continuously drained, many people do not see this as wrong; instead, they instinctively defend this logic. Anyone pointing out problems is regarded as an enemy of "stability."
The deeper issue is that people often assume the existence of hierarchy in their worldview. They may not oppose oppression itself but only care about which layer of the oppression chain they occupy. They do not pursue the abolition of injustice but yearn to become "the slightly higher oppressed," someone who can exert pressure downward. When this mentality combines with emotions, hatred, or mythic narratives, individuals can easily transform into mobs. Mobs are not the same as rebels; they are more like mobilized executors: executing true power’s orders but mistakenly believing they are "upholding justice."
Typical traits of this personality include: extreme obedience to the strong, harsh treatment of the weak; obsession with fictional glory and past illusions; gaining cheap self-esteem by belittling others and creating enemies; avoiding the true sources of oppression and only unleashing hostility on safe targets. What truly makes a society unsettling is not the existence of failures but the large number of people lacking self-awareness and moral boundaries. Their most skilled survival strategy is outsourcing all problems to "others": it’s not my responsibility; it’s someone else’s fault.
Because of this, even as times change, there will still be repeated acts of kowtowing to power, romanticizing forms of rule, and obsessing over bloodlines and identities. These phenomena are not mere nostalgia but a natural return after a long absence of subjectivity. The problem is never just the legacy of the past but whether there are people willing to truly take on the risk of "judging, refusing, and taking responsibility" as a human being.