crowd-thinking

Updated: May 5, 2025

The outstanding fact about our modern machine civilization and its troubles is that crowd-thinking has seized the people that people see things and do things gregariously. We have herds of fractions of men, acting as fractions of men and not as human beings. Each fraction is trying to get the whole country to be a fraction. Being a fraction themselves they want a fraction of a country.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want