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Tao Stoic 180

"How come, Master that intelligent looking persons lose all sanity when in a crowd?"

"I'll give you some works to study later on. For now, let me cite to you Schiller, as found in Satow's chapter about MassIdeation. 'Men, if you take them singly are fairly wise and sagacious; take mankind in a lump and you'll find no more than a blockhead.' You can see now where you can start your study of mankind, of stupidogenesis. When Decor prevails over usability, one behaves stark crazy. Spencer's Essays certainly cannot be missed. And, mind you, everybody belongs to (is autosuggested to belong to, ) the Mass/Mob/Crowd/Clod/Cluster, of: ... consumers."


Ven 2005-01-24