“If there is a cardinal sin in our world, it is not self absorption, but mass absorption, the dissolution of the indivdidual into the mass. The silent majority, the crowd attired in team jerseys, the mob, the throng, the flock. In the uniform crowd, a man is no longer an individual but a single cell in a massive organism, pulled along with no will of his own. We have seen what mobs do, what gangs do, what corporations and political parties are capable of when individuality gives way to groupthink. We will have a free country when the majority of people create themselves. ”
