First, if there is one person perceived to be at the top of the ladder or seeming to encompass by his own expressed understanding the entire spectrum, it is natural to follow that person. As children we are culturally conditioned to follow all kinds of ideas given to us, and we do tend to accept a lot of things as true without questioning. This is partly because there is some kind of perceived survival value related to doing so. Much of the material is actually true, but intertwined with false material, and a false way, or, better put, mode of processing data which arises from this has become ingrained in most any person’s thinking and habit patterns to such a degree that it is very difficult to sort things, especially because much of the material of a person’s daily experiencing unconsciously has come to represent to him something else, and of this mode of making various mental and emotional associations due to representation he is generally unaware.
Deconstructing Krishnamurti 