The Dangers of Following the Crowd

You shouldn't follow the crowd, for one, because it is already following you.
This morning I will not be delivering a well-planned video essay but rather a kind of thinking out loud with you about one that I'd like to produce.
The general theme and thesis has to do with the madness of crowds, the election of parties rather than politicians, the threat of the leveling process, and the unaccountability of crowds and the press.