One of my favorite reading assignments in high school was a short book of extremely short chapters written by Sherwood Anderson, named “Winesburg, Ohio”. The first chapter, as I recall, was about an old man who scribbled down notes about the people in his hometown and then he crumpled up the scraps of paper he… Continue reading Mob Rules (Blog of the Grotesque)
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To Go with the Flow OR To Swim against the Stream
Mob mentality is usually viewed with disdain. Gustave Le Bon, who was a pioneer in this field of study, painted the mob to be distinctly uncivilized … even sub-human. Yet we ought to also recognize that the cornerstones of what we consider to be modern civilization are governments that were created out of protest, as… Continue reading To Go with the Flow OR To Swim against the Stream
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