We take idea of a ‘majority’ as self-evidently well-posed. After all, in a crowd, some view must be more popular than others and must be > 50% sometimes.
Not true. The idea of a ‘mass human’, whose main property is countability, had to be invented and imposed on humans first
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In all seriousness, I agree with you; the human species behaves as if infected by a statistical virus.
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James C Scott talks about this in Against the Grain, as does Peter Gelderloos in Worshiping Power. Anarchists have strong philosophical criticisms of majoritarianism
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