The Importance of Aesthetics in Mass Movements

Hofer: To our real naked selves, there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. Aesthetics is the sort of... That's the visual medium of ... It's like actors talk about when they get into... They put on the wig or they put on the mustache or whatever. I mean, there's a real effect of that. So he's talking about people who have been turned into kind of deracinated individuals who are then drawn into the mass movements.