Quote of the Day

I always think of "mob rule" as something similar to (but less specific than) majority rule, while I think of organization such as communism to be more hierarchical and not represent "mob rule" but instead a single direction - authoritarian. Putting the two (authoritarian rule and mob rule) together seems like an interesting choice. Still, I agree that checks on both are important, or rather institutions that protect freedom from any kind of coercion are important.

I wonder if some aspect of human nature evolved in the context of competing packs. We might be genetically wired to be vulnerable to the lure of the mob.

"Collectivism is the real-world manifestation of the subjective, emotion-based feral animal origins of humanity, like some recurring echo emanating from the primitive reptile brain that physically exists in all of us. It is the antithesis of rational objectivity, something that no amount of fancy verbiage from Marx or Chomsky or Himmler or Plato or Rousseau can disguise in their respective paeans to force and unity over intellect and evolution. Collectivism is a fancy word for tribalism. It is a hold over, an atavistic throw back ..." -- Perry de Havilland, HERE

I now have both the above quotes, one after the other, on my page at http://freedomkeys.com/individualism.htm.