Let me just share my favourite part of what you wrote today:

>When it comes to domesticating a wild herd of these humans, one thing must be kept in mind; the individual human is highly intelligent, and cannot be controlled by any means, while a group of these same humans is only about as smart as a cow, and can be shown the way to pasture with as much as a handful of grass.

This is quite the profound statement you've got here. I can't seem to stop liking it more every time I read it. 

I already knew that the many are capable of a higher form of tyranny than the one. A group of humans under the flag of a corporation or state lose certain human elements of their humanity. Call it an application of the bystander effect? A corporate board has not `N` empathy, where N is the number of members... but `1/N`. 

However, I had not really noticed that this formula for empathy was also applicable to intelligence and critical thought. I think it's true, though, and makes a lot of sense.