Sǿren Kierkegaard-The Crowd is Untruth

Calvin Habig

8585.The Crowd is Untruth.docx

A very short but powerful essay. 

Essayist Carl Trueman says, Kierkegaard "captures brilliantly both the power of the anonymity of the crowd, where personal responsibility, accountability and identity is surrendered to the larger group; and pinpoints that which became all too tragically true in the subsequent century, the ease with which a talented person can manipulate a crowd into doing the most terrible things.  Crowds can make otherwise perfectly sane people do otherwise inexplicable things: run down the road with traffic cones on their heads, applaud at the end of Justin Bieber concerts, and as we now know, herd others into gas chambers and onto killing fields."

Carl Trueman, "The Crowd is Untruth," Retrieved from http://www.reformation21.org/articles/the-crowd-is-untruth.php.

From CCLI

David Paul

This looks interesting indeed. Thanks.

Rosie Perera

Thanks! What a small world -- I know the translator of that essay, Charles Bellinger. He used to be the public service librarian at the Regent College Library when I was a student.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/580388#Comment_580388

Thanks Calvin. Looks like an interesting read.