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All here on this forum / mob gathering ? !It could bring forward a Revolution or at least a Rebellion ~ ~ But where are the Irishmen today to create a Revolution / Rebellion ? !
Seriously though.
For the kind of revolution or rebellion you appear to have in mind, you need above all else a mob and its innate characteristics.
You need people to have their individual critical faculties subsumed, and for them to become credulous and easily suggestible.
For a mob is above all else obedient to suggestions. The images evoked in the mob mind become accepted as realities - said images being of course identical for all of the individuals in the mob (that is being targeted by ideological and other suggestion).
They become subject to illusions. Their sentiment exaggerated and ingenuous. They do not admit doubt or uncertainty, and go to extremes.
Well most of you know the score on these fronts only too well!
Or again, a mob by its nature exhibits the characteristics of impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgement and of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of the sentiments, and others besides.
Individuals reduced to primitive beings.
Because it has always been a mob, and the mass mob mind that comes out of it, which has furnished the torrents of blood that brought about the triumph of some or other new set of ideas or beliefs.
But where are the members of this mob today?
Well they're not on the street. They're (you're) online. On fora like this one, clearly exhibiting all of the characteristics of the erstwhile mob that was capable of action in the past.
However in our own era rendered impotent by the very screens that acted upon you to render you a mob in the first place.
So there's your conundrum @clarke-connolly