“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an
individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you
suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You
will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own.
Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost
your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger
than you are and that controls you.”
George Carlin