Summary: “Group Minds,” Doris Lessing

Summary: “Group Minds,” Doris Lessing


In her article “Group Minds,” Doris Lessing stated that it is human nature to want to belong to a group, so we often conform to the group’s way of thinking, for that reason we must use the knowledge we have about human behavior to “set us free” as individual thinkers. Westerners are under the assumption that they are free to make their own choices or have their own opinions in society. This way of thinking leaves us unaware of th...