Crowds are awe-inspiring. They make one nervous. They entice the breakdown of decorum, of self-interest, and make one move as one with a wider, almost irresistible force. A crowd can be a mob, and mobs are scary to those who like rationality. Crowds are capable of this: But crowds are also capable of this: These reasonably amazing [...]
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The power of crowds & Adopt a Camp
Posted: 19/08/2011 in Community, Life & StyleTags: Adopt a camp, Care packages, Civil Society, Crowds, Dubai, Labor camp, Mob, Riot
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The Unknown Citizen
Posted: 19/08/2011 in Arts and Culture, Other inanitiesTags: United States, Unknown Citizen, W. H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden remains a favourite poem. I ran into it recently after quite a while and felt like sharing. Auden wrote it as an ode to a nameless, faceless man who fits the exact centre of the most normal of distributions, who carries his way at the apex of the most [...]
