The Crowd Is Untruth

The short essay was written by the 19th Century danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. What I found remarkable is that the essay is incredibly relevant to present age. Because today's conventional wisdom is to accept that there is such a thing called the wisdom of the crowds or the power of the masses or people's will which I always felt uncomfortable. Soren Kierkegaard's essay eloquently argues why The Crowd Is Untruth.The crowd is an impersonal abstraction which render the single individual irresponsibility or weakens his responsibility. The crowd is cowardice because the single individual, using the mask of anonymity, would do or say things which he or she perhaps did not have the courage to do/say personally. Can a crowd reach the truth quickly and decisively like a single individual? very unlikely. The only way to honor every individual unconditionally is to "love thy neighbor" and not through some skewed view of ethico-religious crowds. Because "the neighbor" is the absolute true expression for human equality.Thank you, Soren Kierkegaard.