Monday, May 26, 2008

Eric Hoffer

George Packer, in The Fall of Conservatism, reminds us of the great wisdom of ex-longshoreman Eric Hoffer, who said:

"Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation."

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