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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 06:41:08 EDT Strypey

   "Humans have a troubling tendency to be the anti-ant. Ants, individually, are stupid, but collectively intelligent. Humans, individually, are intelligent, but collectively stupid."
   https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5c88gg/fortyfive_a_republic_if_you_can_keep_it/

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 07:17:52 EDT Strypey

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      BTW neither @dredmorbius (who said it) nor I intend this as an indictment of collective or cooperative human organization, or an argument for narrow individualism. Rather, it just points out that in moments of crisis, any individual in a mob can be reasoned with much more easily than trying to reason with the whole mob.