The burgeoning of mass thought likewise is presented as some new accession of reason—of wisdom, somehow inexplicably hidden from all previous times. It is actually a creation of the century’s mechanisms: communication and travel. Because we are connected, some will see the possibility for exploitation of the mass for personal or party gain, and some for influence. In success the first group will supplant the second. Mass thought must be simplistic to be easily grasped, and attractive, offering the treat of a wisdom so novel it has been overlooked by all previous humans, awaiting the birth of
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