I read a great book by Elias Cannetti “Crowds and Power”
It explains a great deal. That, among other things, people do and say things in a crowd that they would never say or do, individually.
Crowds can be manipulated and motivated (easily) by unprincipled and evil people. It reminds me of the expression, “Small dogs run in big packs’.
“It was Chain Lightning, it feels so good!”
[[ It explains a great deal. That, among other things, people do and say things in a crowd that they would never say or do, individually]]
Yes, their inner biases, their inner hatred, their inner racism comes to the surface when they are in a crowd because they know there is power in numbers, and if anyone objects or calls them out, they know 10-20 other hate-filled maggots will defend them. But alone, they would lose arguments bedause they couldn’t scream loud enough to drown out the truth
Thanks for mentioning Canetti - haven’t read him for many years now. Will have to dig up some of his works from the pile.
Crowds and Power is available online as a PDF by the way, just for general information.