10 November

I hate crowds. And wonder why anybody would like the experience of them, in fact I suspect most hate them. Nobody turns up to anything except a gig or battle and says ‘o goody, a crowd.’ Crowds have replaced public life. To me that’s a terrible, dangerous thing. On the surface they seem like mass celebration, communion. But that communion is imitation, not connection. You don’t go home from a crowd event knowing anything at all about the thousands of others there with you.