machine-mindedness

Updated: May 25, 2025

If I were to generalize in what I have to say about men who are fooled by themselves instead of rounding my idea out with some particular man everybody knows, like Mr. Burleson for instance, it would be evaporated thinking. The Habit of Not Having any Habits leaving out standardized elements in things and not being machine-minded enough. Automatism, or Machine-Mindedness.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want

The various forms I have mentioned of the malady of being fooled by oneself, all practically boil down to one in the end one cause which we have to recognize and avoid automatism, the lack of conscious control of the mind letting oneself be rolled under the little wheels in one's head. The main central cause operating with people when they are being fooled about themselves, is machine-mindedness.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want