"Коллективное сумасшествие"
Aug. 22nd, 2010 10:58 amИнтересный оп-эд. Ответ Обамы на вопрос корреспондента о строительстве Исламского культурного центра рядом с Ground Zero: что-то вроде "у нас в стране свобода религий" привел к тому, что гораздо большее число людей считает его мусульманином.
"In “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” a history of such national follies as England’s South Sea Bubble and Holland’s Tulip Frenzy, the Scottish historian Charles Mackay observed: “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
"In “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” a history of such national follies as England’s South Sea Bubble and Holland’s Tulip Frenzy, the Scottish historian Charles Mackay observed: “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”