The author describes in academic terms what books less academic call an egregore - a collective charge of negative emotions, with an equivalent of conscioussness, that encourages its members to treat others with suspicion and hatred so they would produce more of those negative emotions that feed the egregore. The name itself is apparently a mix of words "egregious", "ogre" and "gore" - a spot on description of an egregore.
Without an organized faith, without a belief in a greater good, in the idea of unity in particular, the average masses would fall to nihilism - a midpoint between a god worship and a devil worship. But any movement, no matter how good it is initially, is made of people that aren't perfect, and their selfish feelings eventually create that egregore.
Without an organized faith, without a belief in a greater good, in the idea of unity in particular, the average masses would fall to nihilism - a midpoint between a god worship and a devil worship. But any movement, no matter how good it is initially, is made of people that aren't perfect, and their selfish feelings eventually create that egregore.