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Crowds can sometimes erase the feeling of loneliness, and at other times blur individual identity. As we move within a group, our thoughts are replaced by the collective emotions of the crowd. Our personal feelings and principles are supplanted by the common voice of the majority. In this way, the individual’s “I” is pushed into the background and dissolves into the anonymous crucible of the “we.” In modern society, we refer to this phenomenon as “deindividualization.” The Dissolution of the Sel