a congregation seated neatly in rows, one feels like an obedient subject, one of the masses, whereas standing in a crowd, as one would have done in a pre-Reformation church, one is part of a living thing, that is that community of living human beings, there and then: one of humanity, not one of ‘the people’.
Evidently still craved due to the way people seek it in festivals, concerts and perhaps some sporting events.
Consider also the discomfort experienced in these situations by those apparenty predominately right hemisphericaly neuronally-diverse.
