I do not know of Le Bon or of Hippolyte Taine before him, although I did once stay in the Place de la République
The closest that I get to mob culture is in the football crowd, where I occasionally do move from individual thought
Of course I despise those politicians, especially the conservatives, who chose to name group behaviour as mindless and without reason
Instead, even though my own experience questions it, I prefer to believe that I behave as a thoughtful individual, whether alone or when gathered in a crowd
