It's simple enough to divide individual behavior into instinct/emotion and rationality/logic.
Thesis of picture is that same division can be performed on mob behavior. Part of mob behavior is reflexive ("orange man bad", or "orange man good", "vax bad", "vax good"). Part of mob behavior is planned ("in order to achieve our objectives, we should adopt the following optics-friendly public stance, even if we don't believe it").
It's simple enough to divide individual behavior into instinct/emotion and rationality/logic.
Thesis of picture is that same division can be performed on mob behavior.
Part of mob behavior is reflexive ("orange man bad", or "orange man good", "vax bad", "vax good").
Part of mob behavior is planned ("in order to achieve our objectives, we should adopt the following optics-friendly public stance, even if we don't believe it").
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