The Dangers of a Mob

Mark O'Mara: There is this danger in the social. And so we should maybe have some reluctance about the social part of humanity that vast political projects, totalitarian projects require this obedience to the group. We need reference to a framework that is sufficiently complex to take account of the phenomena that we actually observe," he says. "It's also important as a matter of moral obligation for political figureheads like Barack Obama"