collective identity, n.All

Collective identity (n.) lets ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠plain Mr. X feel himself a whole nation for an evening — one sheep among ten thousand — before he goes home to his third-floor flat.

Collective identity (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a permanent participation mystique with no individual differentiation would found a uniform society whose deadly boredom would be the very ideal of a Marxist state.