Groups (including churches) don't work - they are either ineffectual, or else tend to the side of evil

My insight against groups - i.e. the fundamental nature and potential of human groups* as of 2025 - is solidifying. 

Until not many years ago, I desired to be part of a good group, perhaps especially a church - but if not that then some other kind of fellowship; but I have gradually firmed my sense that - here-and-now, and if they are to be both good and helpful - groups can and should be secondary. 

What is primary ought to be the sense of individual responsibility for the understanding, choices, and commitments that are a consequence of our actual state of freedom. Groups are good insofar as they support us in this - but if the group comes to displace, shape, or dominate our intuitive understanding... Well, the outcome can only be bad. 

The thing is... we are (most of us) nostalgic for the preceding era of human consciousness, in which groups were primary; and our individuality was expressed within the bounds set by the group. This nostalgia for immersion in a group ethos can be so powerful as to amount to a desperation, a craving. 

Nostalgia is also amplified by what seems to be pragmatism, or even what is perceived as necessity. As when people conclude that the dominant Systemic (bureaucratic-media-political) evil of 2025 can only be resisted and fought by establishing an alternative System - groups/ institutions/ organizations/ corporations that are (supposedly) aligned to God and The Good and which operate in opposition to the mainstream Satanically-allied groupings. 

But groupism entails that a group be set-up and sustained in face of society as it actually is - which is totalitarian. And - more importantly - sustained in the face of human consciousness as it actually is.

This means that (here-and-now) all groups are fatally compromised by the demands of their own survival - and dually compromised by the nature of people and the nature of society.   

The nature of people is what makes groupism feebly motivating - feeble relative to the other influences of society in 2025; the nature of society is what makes groupism corrupting - since to survive the group will be linked to totalitarianism. 

Therefore a group will both fail to provide the kind of immersive sustenance that our nostalgia desires; while at the same time the compromises/ corruptions of any viable and sustaining group will draw its members towards the ruling Globalist-Western ideology of modern, mainstream, totalitarian leftism. 

For the simultaneous futility and malignity of groupism to be appreciated depends on recognizing that Men and Society as of 2025, are qualitatively different from Men and Society of 1925 - and what was possible and good a century ago is no longer either possible or good. 

Still, we are left with our nostalgia, and our cravings...

And this is why I think it has become so essential to go back to our deepest, our most fundamental and basic assumptions regarding the nature of God, creation, and Mankind - and our personal relationship to these great facts.

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*Note: By "groups" I mean to include the whole range of organized and formal-or semi-formal grouping; such as churches and esoteric organizations (masonic, magical etc.), institutions, corporations and businesses, political groups such as nations and their subdivisions, locality-based groups, function-related groups (professions and the like), and so forth. But I do not include families, marriages, friendships - that are based on mutual and individual love - these are, I believe, of a qualitatively different nature from the kind of groups I am discussing.  here.