For example, Huck scoffs at the formal religious customs and loses interest in learning about Moses once he learns that Moses lived a long time ago and thus does not directly come into contact with his own life. ... Huck relays, "I asked her if Tom Sawyer would go [to the good place], and, she said, not by a considerable sight. ... In about a minute everybody was saying it; so away then went, mad and yelling, and snatching down every clothes-line they come to, to do the hanging with. (109)" In this example of runaway destructive collective consciousness, the mass becomes so caught up in the ac...

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