How are consciousness and activity connected in the text?

A person’s actions express consciousness and also shape it, so participation in a collective event is both a consequence of an inner state and a force that changes that state.

Why can mass action temporarily ease alienation?

In a crowd, private doubts and tension find a shared channel and briefly create a sense of connection, but that release does not necessarily bridge the distance between people for long.

What meaning does the author give to the image of a boat in a storm?

A trial that does not overturn the boat becomes an experience of stability and a metaphor for how difficulty can make a person stronger.

Troy (in the boat): Not shit, but me 🐕

There will be a lot of allegories, analogies, and projections here. This is a riddle in which everyone sees what they want to see. If a lot is unclear, crank up the confusion — this is paradoxical intention, not causal attribution.
The title alone contains a mass of meanings — as many meanings, opinions, and motives as there were masses who came out to the rally on the 23rd.

Who? Where? Why?

Who❓

Answering: S. L. Rubinstein📖
The law of the unity of consciousness and activity. “In a person’s activity, in their deeds — practical and theoretical — a person’s mental and spiritual development not only manifests itself, but is accomplished” (Foundations of General Psychology, p. 88).
Our actions shape consciousness, but at the same time they are its consequence.
Answer: Consciousness and activity❗

Where❓

Answering: E. Fromm📖
The deepest human need is the need to overcome one’s alienation and, on the other hand, to find an acceptable way to release tension. All our dissatisfaction gets projected onto a public event, while alienation and doubt are overcome at the same time: in a crowd, what feels questionable when you are alone no longer seems quite so unacceptable. Diverse, subjectively significant passions are directed and objectified in an illusorily unified activity and find release in it. “It becomes a hopeless attempt
to rid oneself of the anxiety produced by alienation, and leads only to a constant increase in the feeling of alienation, since it cannot throw a bridge across the abyss between people, except for a single moment” (The Art of Loving).
Answer: Into diverse (subjectively significant) directions❗

Why❓

Answering: F. Nietzsche 📖
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.” Whatever does not overturn the boat makes it steadier in the next storm.
Answer: To become stronger❗

Conclusion:

Consciousness and activity act in diverse (subjectively significant) directions in order to become stronger.

So, Troy in the boat:
Troy, Pompeii, Rome 🏛
Three whales: respect, trust, communication 🥉
The Roman triumvirate: People, Senate, King 🎯
Three agencies: Id, Ego, Superego 👤
Three characters: Coward, Dunce, Old Hand 🤵
Three... spin the planet....
So who spins the planet?

P.S.: Whoever lists 23 interpretations of the post title gets 23,000 US dollars! 👒🚷