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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/RoundSparrow/statuses/113391182775170684">RoundSparrow 🐦 (roundsparrow@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 23:51:33 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow" title="roundsparrow@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/236941-48-20240120162647.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="RoundSparrow 🐦" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">RoundSparrow 🐦</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow/113391158873995949" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>"the aspect of a skyscraper with a thousand identical windows will probably impress him more than a picture by Botticelli or Zurbarán."- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 16</p><p>Or what really impress educated people is how many retweets or book sales they can have pandering to the crowd of people who have lost their hearts and minds to Donald Trump. Saying exactly what crowd wants to hear: you are smarter than Donald Trump! You are less fat than Donald Trump! Younger.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3899499#notice-7621706">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-10-29T23:51:33+09:00" title="Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 23:51:33 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow/113391182775170684" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow/113391182775170684">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3370865">"The herdist instinct is furthermore not only personal, in the sense that it clamors for a personal collectivism; it creates also a longing and desire for the visual or acoustic contemplation of identitarian or uniformistic phenomena. The true herdist, the man truly dominated by that inferior instinct, will not only rejoice in marching amongst twenty thousand uniformly clad soldiers, all stepping rhythmically in one direction, but he will find an almost equal gratification in contemplating the show from a balcony. He will not only be happy in sitting amidst two hundred other bespectacled businessmen, drinking beer and humming one chant in unison, but the aspect of a skyscraper with a thousand identical windows will probably impress him more than a picture by Botticelli or Zurbarán."
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 16</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/391/180/445/304/153/original/cd5f064e7ae898b0.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/391/180/445/304/153/original/cd5f064e7ae898b0.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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"the aspect of a skyscraper with a thousand identical windows will probably impress him more than a picture by Botticelli or Zurbarán."- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 16
Or what really impress educated people is how many retweets or book sales they can have pandering to the crowd of people who have lost their hearts and minds to Donald Trump. Saying exactly what crowd wants to hear: you are smarter than Donald Trump! You are less fat than Donald Trump! Younger.
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1. "The herdist instinct is furthermore not only personal, in the sense that it clamors for a personal collectivism; it creates also a longing and desire for the visual or acoustic contemplation of identitarian or uniformistic phenomena. The true herdist, the man truly dominated by that inferior instinct, will not only rejoice in marching amongst twenty thousand uniformly clad soldiers, all stepping rhythmically in one direction, but he will find an almost equal gratification in contemplating the show from a balcony. He will not only be happy in sitting amidst two hundred other bespectacled businessmen, drinking beer and humming one chant in unison, but the aspect of a skyscraper with a thousand identical windows will probably impress him more than a picture by Botticelli or Zurbarán." Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 16
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