“This is what a society looks like when the glue that holds it together starts to dissolve. This is the way ordinary citizens react when they learn that the structure beneath them is crumbling. And this is the thrill that pulses through the veins of the well-to-do when they discover that there is no longer any limit on their power to accumulate.”
Thomas Frank
Society is an emergent property. When it is asserted to be more than the sum of parts, superior to individuals, it is a glue factory, filled with domesticated horses just doing their jobs, just following orders: making, being made into, glue.