Swatch stores close for second day after crowds
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c302vjqz563o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Firetruck being observed by a crowd, Yokohama, Japan, 1907
Procession through a street in Algeria, ~1900
https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2048887/procession-through-a-street-in-algeria-1900
There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
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