I've had a similar suspicion about the potential for zombified masses. Indeed, that kind of elitism seems implicit in the religious and existential conceptions of higher and lower people, or in the enlightened and the unenlightened. It might be that few of us are personal in the full sense. Even the most "individuated" person (to use Jung's term, with its quasi-Gnostic context) might automate his or her behaviour some of the time. We're not self-aware all the time, but go on autopilot when we rely on our instincts which take care of the chores that have become second nature to us. But this also makes for what I've called the ancient cold war between intellectuals and the less reflective masses (see my articles below for more on that theme).
