Thanks for answering, what you said Virginia regarding a self-reflection now gaining momentum in humankind, reminds me of some Enlightenment quotes:-
There was once a holy man who lived in a state of ecstasy but was regarded by everyone as insane. One day, having begged for food in the village, he sat by the roadside and began to eat when a dog came up and looked at him hungrily. The holy man then began to feed the dog; he himself wold take a morsel, then give a morsel to the dog as though he and the dog were old friends. Soon a crowd gathered around the two of them to watch this extraordinary sight.
One of the men in the crowd jeered at the holy man. He said to the others, "What can you expect from someone so insane that he is not able to distinguish between a human being and a dog?"
The holy man replied "Why do you laugh? Do you not see Vishnu seated with Vishnu? Vishnu is being fed and Vishnu is doing the feeding. So why do you laugh, oh Vishnu?
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The Lord Krishna said to Arjun, "You speak of me as of an incarnation of God. But today I wish to reveal something special to you. Follow me."
Arjun followed the Lord a short distance. Then Krishna pointed to a tree and said, "What do you see there?"
Arjun replied "A huge vine with clusters of grapes hanging on it."
The Lord said, "Those are not grapes. Go closer and look at them carefully."
When Arjun did that he could hardly believe his eyes for there before him were Krishna's hanging in bunches from Krishna."
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Funny what you said about narcissism, some people believe that it was the ego that separated us all and makes us selfish and grasping.
Hard though, I mean take for inventions, if you invent something you certainly want to put a patent on it before someone else steals that idea and makes money off it themselves. In that scenario you consider thought as individual and not collective.