Humans are the only species to create an imagined view of their own self importance in relation to the creation as a whole, and this imagined view is not readily evidenced by thier own actions, giving one a persistant idenity with assumed characteristics of the imagined view. This persistant idenity takes a role of its own, and inevitable control of the mind is comprimised. This is what has happened to our society and culture as a whole. We took on the persistant identiy of religion and their accompanying archetypes and nations did the same, leading to the conscious 'mind'of the society becoming comprimised as the persistant identiy was a false, imagined view of their own role of importance in universe . A persistant idenity exists because it has no rival by which it may be weighed.
(Synopsis from the works of Harry Palmer)