Thanks for the clarification RC. What you said makes a lot of sense, probably to very few people. LOL. I actually agree with you though.
It reminds me of an incident when I was in nursing where a woman with dementia was telling everyone on the street her house was on fire and everyone was saying oh, don't listen to her, she has dementia. Only trouble is, her house was really on fire!
Or if someone who is mentally ill, says something very different but perhaps true and profound, it is dismissed because they are mentally ill regardless of how intelligent or brilliant they may be in some areas. Then if ever anyone who is not mentally ill agrees with them, the majority may say, well that is the view that mentally ill people hold so you must be mentally ill also.
To relate to our current thread on female thinking, if a woman makes a really logical point on a subject, is the point then dismissed as illogical just because it was made by a woman? To many minds, yes! I had this experience on another thread, where we were arguing creation vs atheism. The poster I was arguing with thought I was a man, when I informed him I was a woman, he suddenly began making PMS jokes in response to my arguments.
Could we define this phenomenon as "collective consciousness?" Those who are outside the collective will always be viewed with suspicion? Still, it is important for society to always have its "different" views as without them, how would the collective consciousness ever be challenged as to whether it was really collective delusion? This ties in with what I said about stereotypes. We do not have to buy into them. By the language we choose to use as individuals we either perpetuate the collective delusion or we challenge it. One path is easy, the other takes courage, (or perhaps idiocy!)
Cog