Jackie; if you should survive to a hundred and five, it would serve you well to remember this...

We human beings choose the company of those human beings whose
belief systems most closely match those of our own. *

And those who don't are erratics - unhappy people who choose groups of other unhappy people in which to mingle.

Within the Cambridge Apostles mingled many old line communists and new age homosexuals who screened new members after their political affinities to the ingroup's core beliefs.

The Bloomsbury Group - being an outgrowth of the Cambridge Apostles - are likely but different peas from the same pod.

Alienation from the central culture makes people unhappy. Membership in smaller cultures such as these gives the honorees a temporary sense of belonging but sadly, deep inside, they are still unhappy and outwardly they are mad and sometimes embrassingly vocal.

It's in the book! --> [ The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements --- Eric Hoffer (1951)]

* The Open and Closed Mind: Investigations into the Nature of Belief Systems and Personality Systems - Milton Rokeach (1960)



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