3.29.2012

No Masses Here

I sometimes hear the term "masses" used to describe the American public.  ('Educate the masses.  Health care for the masses.  Etc.')  There are no masses in America.  This term originates in the writings of Karl Marx, et al.

In America we have groups of individuals.  Power flows from the individual to the institutions.  The only masses in America are the ones conducted in the Catholic church.

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