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How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
> People form a kind of super-being in a mob, a near God-like entity, which can perform powerful acts - go to the moon, solve humanitarian crises, and so on.
I'd hardly call NASA or UNICEF a
mob
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fit2rule
on Feb 12, 2015
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Maybe mob is one end of the spectrum, and "organized space-exploration organization" is the other end.
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I'd hardly call NASA or UNICEF a mob.