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To Remember Occupy, Part Two

It Could Happen Here

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Crowds, an Power Yes, by Elias Cannetti

In the early 1900s elias cannetti wrote a book called crowds, an power yes to he attempts to describe the entirety of human history and anthropology in terms of crowds. This is obviously impossible and ridiculous, but that book has the best descriptions of crowd dynamics i have ever encountered anywhere. Once you start defending something, you start losing it because we cannot take on the state or the police in a head on confrontation. We should never not be willing to destroy something we've achieved so far? Right now is only good thinking; expanding into more than what we can turn our minds to is another matter. If you do want to participate in these kind of movements, consider yourself someone who wants to

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