Thread by @eugyppius1

1) correct German spelling is Massenbildung, so many typos on this account

2) a point I forgot to mention: humans are hive creatures, like termites; it hurts to hear after so many years of liberal indoctrination, but we don’t really exist as individuals …

https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1480624621431005184

… at least not as we prefer to imagine it. I am hostile to conceptions that pathologise collective human social behaviour. That said:

Much blood & treasure has been spent, to isolate us & beat us back to naked individualism. And that makes us vulnerable to all kinds of crazy …

If ‘crowd formation’ as a theory is tenable, it is to this extent: That humans when vulnerable, isolated & under threat are likely to join any movement, just to be part of something, just as in an overwhelmingly secular society, they fall prey to all manner of parareligious crap.

But the desire to join, to be part of a common project with others, isn’t unhealthy. It’s what we are. The disease comes from depriving ppl of these relationships & social arrangements, which can cause erratic social reactions - and these did play a role here, at least early on.