>[WS:] I did not realize you had a metaphor in mind, I thought you were
>talking about a real thing.
I think he was. He said:
>I ordered Wolff's book which is theory, but I saw it in practice.
>Like I said, it amounts to direct rule by public consensus. Somehow
>a collective consciousness forms. It is usually dramatized as mob
>rule, but that isn't what really happened. I assume it was what
>happened to the French National Assembly, before the Committee for
>Public Safety took over.