While I am not a die hard believer in demcracy as the perfect political science, I will give it one credit, its perhaps the best one out there, at least constitutionally for the most part every democratic(not the political party) dictator gets ousted by default.
I first started studying political sciences while I was in high school, there was one specific definition that has stuck on with me through the years and I have logically and practically used it in every situation possible!
The outcome of learning that definition helped me realize an understand an important quality of humans, we are very democratic at the most basic hedonic levels, we are very social, we do tend to share and pass of our emotions, and the rest of the society (not literally) cares.
But do they think? Its a very important ingridient for the success of democracy, otherwise it becomes something that was best definited by Aristotle as ‘a democracy is nothing but mobocracy, The Rule of the Mob’.
The world and it inhabitants (for the most part) as I see it are one Big Mob, this mob consists of millions of smaller mobs, whose members, are usually part of more than one mob, extending beyond culture, geographical, language and any other so called barriers. Every action they make, every thought they skip, every collective move they make changes the world, to even the slightest degree a change is a change, not that they would not have been able to do its as individuals, its simply an opinion I have towards the scope of the impact of a united group of people, united in action, united in motivation, united in greed, united in fear… etc.
There are different mobs in every home, school, colleges, universities, offices, factories, cities, states, countries, coffee shops, in every market, in every avenue, they are there, they collectively constitute ‘The Mob’.
‘The Mob’ according to my definition, and true to the theories of group psychology, are bi-polar, their absolute underlying emotional motivation (in my opinion) is usually fear or greed. The mob is continuously influenced by cognitive dissonance, in some form or another.
It very similar in connections, to the internet, the web and all the other interconnected LANs and WANs. The utterly biased media is the backbone network. I will not blame the media for anything as of now, they are fulfilling there function to deliver what ‘The Mob’ enjoys consuming, whatever that may be.
That is my definition of ‘The Mob’, and I am pretty sure I am a part of a few myself!
‘Is This A Fact’, for me yes, for you, decide for yourself.
