“The mentality of the crowd has never been more predominant than it is today.” // TRAIN BRAIN

“The mentality of the crowd has never been more predominant than it is today.”

Robert Harris says the modern world is similar to Ancient Rome - arguing that social media has created a new kind of mob mentality, capable of whipping people into a fury at extraordinary speed.
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