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What this says essentially is that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. If  people behave a certain way over a period of time, there will be patterns of behavior coming back at them from the other direction.  It's not that everything that you do is not echoing across the collective unconscious. 

From The Evolution of Cooperation:

 "For me, a typical case of the emergence of cooperation is the development of patterns of behavior in a legislative body such as the United States Senate. Each senator has an incentive to appear effective to his or her constituents, even at the expense of conflicting with other senators who are trying to appear effective to their constituents. But this is hardly a situation of completely opposing interests, a zerosum game. On the contrary, there are many opportunities for mutually rewarding activities by two senators. These mutually rewarding actions have led to the creation of an elaborate set of norms, or folkways, in the Senate. Among the most important of these is the norm of reciprocity—a folkway which involves helping out a colleague and getting repaid in kind. It includes vote trading but extends to so many types of mutually rewarding behavior that "it is not an exaggeration to say that reciprocity is a way of life in the Senate" (Matthews 1960, p. 100; see also Mayhew 1975). 

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Caroline Myss and archetypal patterns:

"Think of them as recurring patterns of behavior in energy that influence us whether we're conscious of them or not it's like these Universal energies or blueprints for human behavior that we see repeated
throughout history and across cultures."  

"The lunacy of politicians is over the edge. If you look at it from the first floor you will end up saying there's that damn person again there's that stupid this there's that stupid there. You don't get anywhere--you cannot solve anything on the first floor--you have to get out, including anything in your life--you can't solve or resolve anything on the first floor. The only thing you will end up doing on the first floor is getting filled with hatred and fear and blaming someone as if any one person or any group of people could possibly make this planet the hell hole of a mess that it is right now. You have to stand back and say what's really going on here? If you can understand it from up there you can understand the significance of the necessary choices that have to be made and that there are choices that make sense."

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From Man's Rage For Chaos, Morse Peckham:

"In novel situations, we improvise patterns of behavior by combining performance, the critic places the performance in a tradition, decides what kind of role was being attempted, judges its adequacy, and passes out praise or blame, and often suggests interpretations. When we are growing up and learning roles, the first critics we encounter are our parents, then our siblings, playmates, teachers, lovers and spouses, friends, employers, and finally speakers of our obituaries. When we have learned the role of critic, we become critics of others and of ourselves; just as we spend our lives in an atmosphere of rehearsal, so we spend our lives bathed in criticism. How weary we get of it! It is even possible to be weary of criticising others. But it is one of the conditions of human existence; it is the brake against random and valueless innovation."