The thing about mobs is that distilled to their essence they are little more than herds. A pathetic meekness mixed with a dull, fatalistic resentfulness is the default condition of a herd, but a herd will always contain the threat of a stampede.
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The thing about mobs is that distilled to their essence they are little more than herds. A pathetic meekness mixed with a dull, fatalistic resentfulness is the default condition of a herd, but a herd will always contain the threat of a stampede.
