22 June

All uncontrolled imitation, the simple act of people copying one another (our deepest passion), leads to violence. Here just one more social media viral trend that is progressing to the next stages. Anger, then rage, then violence. What causes both the outrage and the violence is obsessive copying of one another’s behaviour. That’s the only true evil in the world. What we copy is irrelevant. A culture that did nothing but copy cute memes of cats and dogs would still end up as a ‘fascist State’, because of widespread imitation. Imitation generates rivalry, rivalry generates violence. Peer pressure, we know this.