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There are no geniuses in a crowd

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<img attachment="gustave_le_bon.webp" align="right"><bq date="1895" author="Gustave Le Bon" href="https://laphamsquarterly.substack.com/p/extracts-397" source="Lapham's Quarterly">From the moment that they form part of a crowd, the learned man and the ignoramus are equally incapable of observation.</bq> I've sourced it to Lapham's Quarterly but the original source was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popular_Mind" author="" source="Wikipedia">The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind</a>, which I read in <a href="{app}/view_article.php?id=1070">2005</a>. <hr> <n>The title is a play on the expression, <iq>There are no atheists in foxholes.</iq></n>