I never had any interest in managing people, and I have long distrusted groups of people loving and hating in chorus.
Solidarity is good. It’s how we get things done. Without it, nothing would be built or created. Roads, buildings, monuments, cities would not have been built. Women would not have won the vote, Black Americans and gays would not have gained civil rights. The Confederacy would not have been defeated, nor would Hitler. And besides, it’s fun to cheer with a crowd at a baseball game, or laugh, scream and weep with an audience at a movie or play.
But following for the sake of turning your mind/conscience off and following is like a drug for some people. Any sign of noncompliance, evcn in the form of mild dissent, outrages them, and when they get control of a mob, they become dangerous. The sight of crowds/cliques bullying outliers into pretending to agree has always made me queasy.
Pam Troy 