Sometimes this book seems so right and so intuitive and intelligent, and sometimes it seems goofy as hell and completely arbitrary, unserious, and light. This is a kind of grand theory on “crowds” and “power” as you can imagine, and how they relate. And while Elias Canetti is a quite thought-provoking writer in so many ways, this book is split down the middle on that original characterization I give it above. So what is it? Essentially is a kind of philosophical text that seeks to […]