Why Do People Lose Themselves In A Crowd

It is not uncommon for one to lose themselves in a crowd, enveloped by the crowd's collective mentality. When the individual is consumed by the crowd that individual becomes impenitent for the individual cannot be condemned if they were just another member of the crowd. For it is individuals who are condemned, not crowds, and in that moment they are one with the crowd. Kierkegaard argued how this loss of responsibility for one's actions within a crowd, meant the crowd to be untrue. Untrue in that to be apart of the crowd is to override one's own nature. The crowd permits even encourages the loss of one’s responsibility and individuality. Responsibility to be accountable for one’s own actions. Kierkegaard says again and again that “the crowd is the untruth”. …show more content…
To be true to oneself one must take responsibility. It does not matter whether every individual in the crowd knows it is true that ___, because each individual within the crowd is not responsible to themselves, thus “the crowd is untrue”. “It is the invidious distinctions of human life which despotically ignore the single individual as weak and impotent, which in a temporal and worldly interest, ignor the eternal truth -- the single individual”. The individual has the power to think freely from the influence of the crowded, and it is the individual who is responsible for their actions, the individual acknowledges their own distinction and in this their power, and influence and influence over people. The individual is absolute truth because they embrace the most valued truth; being true to one's