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[–]NeoRail 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Machiavelli, in Discourses on Livy, talks about how people are strong in a crowd, but alone they fold.

Even crowds don't count for all that much. In Junger's text 'On Pain', there is this anecdote from the time of the Kapp Putsch, or some sort of putsch at any rate, in which a crowd of five thousand is instantly scattered by a single warning shot.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not surprising at all lol