According to Urban Dictionary …

“A: ‘I wish I could write a dictionary for all the cool slang out there, but it’s too big a task for me alone, and I can’t afford to pay anyone else to do it.’

“B: “Crowdsourcing is the solution to your problem.. I know — you should make a website called urbandictionary.com, or something. People will just fill it up and edit and moderate all on their own, and you won’t have to pay a dime!’”

“Our once highly individualized nation has evolved into a centrally managed village, an agora made up of huge special interests which regard individual voices as irrelevant. The masquerade is managed by having collective agencies speak through particular human beings. [John] Dewey said this would mark a great advance in human affairs, but the net effect is to reduce men and women to the status of functions in whatever subsystem they are placed. Public opinion is turned on and off in laboratory fashion. All this in the name of social efficiency, one of the two main goals of forced schooling.

“Dewey called this transformation ‘the new individualism.’ When I stepped into the job of schoolteacher in 1961, the new individualism was sitting in the driver’s seat all over urban America, a far cry from my own school days on the Monongahela when the Lone Ranger, not Sesame Street, was our nation’s teacher, and school things weren’t nearly so oppressive.”

“Specific terms have come to be allocated to different sorts of gatherings. We speak of mobs, of gangs, of assemblies, of processions, of audiences, of rioters, of spectators. There are distinct contexts in which each term is employed: whoever heard of a seated mob? Those people watching a football match are termed a crowd, but those gathered at the Albert Hall are referred to as an audience. Skinheads are said to roam in gangs, company directors assemble in groups. A large number of pickets behaving in a threatening manner may be termed a mob, but a large number of policemen charging with batons will almost never be so described. Crowds occur almost entirely outdoors: a room may be described as crowded, but those inside will only in certain, specific, circumstances be termed a crowd.

“The language of crowd description is constantly changing; it changes because the significance of crowds, and of certain kinds of crowds, changes. Indeed, the language employed by historians in their discussion of crowds is the product not only of ideological and methodological approach, but of the long-term influence of characterisations imposed by successive generations of social commentators.”