Commentary
Forms of mass psychosis arise periodically throughout human history. It is a human condition, viscerally driven to create herd protection in the face of fear or fear of the unknown.
Mass hysteria—however logical in its cause—denies, defies, and fears logical explanations for its actions, and equally constrains the emergence of wisdom, nobility, and true leadership. This wildfire swarming of fever-eyed locusts has strategic consequences.
It is a fever that burns without logic, ultimately consuming those who have joined in the mindless huddle of obedience to mob rule. It is also a phenomenon that is heightened and hastened by large-scale urbanization and by the technologies of mass communication. Both these characteristics define our current situation, and clearly, both phenomena have suppressed the mass appetite for leadership….