[MtnClimber]

I expect the next big wave of mob violence to be orchestrated prior to the 2022 elections and even more before 2024.

[Jess Kitting]

The more common form or mob rule is what happened down in North Carolina some weeks ago when the University of North Carolina gave in to the literal mob outside their doors and offered Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure as a professor.

I thought they refused to grant her tenure, and she went off to Howard University. Did I miss something?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

John Adams, the architect of the U.S. Constitution, wrote that the tyranny of the majority can be more oppressive than the tyranny of a despot.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SMARTY]

Elias Cannetti talked about “Crowds and Power”

I always thought a crowd was appealing to misfit losers who can’t BE individuals and can’t TOLERATE indivuduality in others. He said:

“…The crowd needs a direction. It is in movement and it moves towards a goal. The direction, which is common to all its members, strengthens the feeling of equality. A goal outside the individual members and common to all of them drives underground all the private differing goals which are fatal to the crowd as such. It is for the sake of this … when no-one is greater or better than another, that people become a crowd…Direction is essential for the continuing existence of the crowd. Its constant fear of disintegration means that it will accept any goal. A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal….”

[Mariner]

Anacyclosis says ANY amount of democracy always devolves into ochlocracy.