October 2021
the crowd verses the community
26 - 10/21 /18:00
1960, future Nobel Laurette Elia Canetti published Crowds and Power. The crowd, Canetti claimed, emerges from the need of the lonely individual to conform with others. The lonely individual, weak and inconsequential, feels empowered by conforming with a crowd.
The crowd must grow or dissolve. To grow the crowd must overthrow other hierarchies. Yet even as it grows the crowd feels persecuted, and demands retribution. The crowd views itself as virtuous. A priority of every crowd is to accuse and hunt down the un-virtuous. Read More…
The crowd must grow or dissolve. To grow the crowd must overthrow other hierarchies. Yet even as it grows the crowd feels persecuted, and demands retribution. The crowd views itself as virtuous. A priority of every crowd is to accuse and hunt down the un-virtuous. Read More…