Thanatos is the underlying cause of the mass murder in Aurora, Denver. All you people who believe in the motherly ideology of undifferentiation share responsibility for the death of these people. Thanatos becomes stronger and stronger these days, gathering momentum in the unconscious. This happens because the divisive force is not allowed expression in conscious life, in a way which is intellectually and morally sophisticated. Denver is a place of integration, multiplicity, unthinking tolerance, uniformity in terms of gender and ethnicity. In the ruling ideology, there exist no essential differences, no divisive lines. In fact, in the Kindergarten for adults there exist no real opposites at all. A criminal is essentially the same as an honest person. According to this view, society is a rotting dunghill where a thousand flowers bloom. In such a society the divisive force instead comes to expression in bullying, criminality, and shootings at public places.
The central point of my recent article is that Thanatos, the divisive force, must be integrated to ward off the invasive ideology of sameness, predicated on the mother complex. If the collective shadow is not integrated, and people keep repressing it, then it will overpower us, as it has done so many times before in history. To avoid future cinema- and school shootings, a new epoch of racial hatred, ethnic cleansings, and yet another Holocaust, we have no other choice than to face the painful truth and try to deal with it. The Thanatos force is brewing this very moment. Faced with the symbiotic condition, when individuation is finally impeded, the Thanatos force in the collective will rebound with great force. It is very dangerous to go on like this, to maintain the conscious level of Kindergarten children. We must open the safety valve now, and abandon the ideology of sameness.
Death is the divisive force, par excellence. The individual is separated from life itself and everything he loves. Death divides loving couples, Romeo from Juliet, a child from his mother. In decay, it divides the body into its constituent parts. Also a machine dies this way, by being divided into separate parts. In our age, people view Thanatos as unnatural, something that must be repressed at all costs. This unthinking belief is what causes the eruptions of mass-murder. It is the retaliation of Thanatos. Thanatos emerges to prevent the ego from sinking down into collective infantilism. What effects will the Aurora shooting have? People are forced to realize that society is not a great Kindergarten, but destruction is always proximate. It serves to compensate the ongoing undermining of the greatest accomlishment in human history, namely the conscious ego of adulthood. Men must become men, and not remain in a childhood state.
Ego consciousness is dependent on divisions. It cannot exist without separating "this" from "that". For an advanced ego consciousness to exist, divisive thinking must always be present. If it is not allowed to come to expression in a controlled and refined manner, underpinned by science and psychology, it will take primitive and cruel expression, not unlike anient cultures of human sacrifice. Individuation is very much about abandoning the false wrappings of the persona, separating oneself from collective psychology, divesting oneself of falseness, generally. If we were to argue that individuation does not demand separation and abandonment, then we ought to fall in with the crowd at a Nazi rally, and sheer "Sieg Heil" to the leader. If a person belongs to group consciousness, and the group consciousness changes, then he will follow along, even when it turns to evil ways. Those who follow along the course of the "collective mind" will sooner or later fall in with the crowd subverted by Thanatos. A politically correct person today, reciting the notions of racial equivalence, would have been a politically correct person also in the Third Reich. He would, full of implicit faith, recite the tenets of Goebbels.
So they who subscribe to "tolerance fundamentalism", who believe in non-differentiation and make themselves blind to differences - they all share responsibility for the death of the people at the Aurora theatre.
Mats Winther