Crowds

[Late Nobel laureate Elias Canetti in Crowds and Power (1960)] discerned six ingredients necessary for oppression: secrecy, physical brutality, swift reaction, the right to question and to demand answers, the right to judge and condemn, and the right to pardon and show mercy.

Be-bop Galula « Isegoria 2008

I assure you, dear _Tom_, I could name Crowds of our _Irish_ Gentlemen, that wou'd double their Estates, if they would live on them, and ditch them, and drain them, and build them, and plant them, with half the

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

"Crowds" sometimes perform better with a little guidance

A. Siegel: Buying Our Way to a Better Planet? 2008

Surprisingly, the very first one I listened to recounted a story from the "Crowds" book!

Books, Movies, and Coincidence Bea Amaya 2007

Surprisingly, the very first one I listened to recounted a story from the "Crowds" book!

Archive 2007-12-01 Bea Amaya 2007

Some of my readers will remember a diagram in "Crowds" in which I divided people off roughly into

The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

Using this Wisdom-of-the-Crowds approach a good share price can be derived and the IPO can do what it is meant to do: raise cash for the company by selling a percentage of the company at a fair price.

One Way Investment Banks looted their customer: The IPO Process « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2009

Crowds line streets, fill local restaurants as service begins

Yo-Yo Ma performs at funeral 2009

Crowds of regime loyalists tried to break into the U.S. Embassy last July.

U.S. Moves to Shut Embassy in Syria Jay Solomon 2012

Crowds also gathered in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour as well as the province of Latakia on the Mediterranean coast and central regions.

EU's Syria Sanctions Likely to Be Delayed Laurence Norman 2011