You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:
And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
@rickmans Clearly there was a divide of opinion here, though, with one lot declaring (with Musk) that “vox populi, vox dei”; and Alcuin warning that it is “semper insaniae proxima”.
We may ask where that leaves the wisdom of the crowds? Or even Seneca, who states that the best ideas as held in common (“sciant quae optima sunt esse communia”)?
Mob rule needs separation from democratic impulses and sharing of common ideas; somehow “vox populi, vox dei” has conflated them in common usage.
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