The Crowd Is Getting Away From You

You don't know what you're upset about, and neither does the crowd. You start to articulate some things about why you might be upset, and some of them fall flat. But you're paying attention to the crowd, so you stop saying those things. And some of the things make the crowd really wake up and listen. So you start saying more of those things. Its it's an unconscious dialectic between you and the crowd. It's mediated by consciousness, but it's not like youre sitting there saying, i'm going to tell this crowd more what it wants to hear. It's more sophisticated than that. If a hundred people tell you specifically why you're special, you...