Mob leaders promised each member embodiment of ideals merely by joining
Evidence
These men began to tell the mob that each of its members could become such a lofty all-important walking embodiment of something ideal if he would only join the movement. Then he no longer had to be loyal or generous or courageous, he would automatically be the very incarnation of Loyalty, Generosity, Courage. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 630
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Mechanism of manufactured collective identity that parallels what later Islamophobia readings describe of identity politics and conspiracy.
Related
- Mob leaders weaponized Jews as ideology regardless of Jewish actual importance. (similarity 0.80)
- Organized mob politics emerges when elites aestheticize the mob as vital strength (similarity 0.80)
- Intellectuals converted the organized mob into an idealized national force. (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarian leaders emerged from the mob before the masses they organized. (similarity 0.79)
- Mob and elite alliance arose because both were first eliminated from nation-state structure (similarity 0.78)