superb quote. This is spot on. And to maintain the focus on “common instincts” is that the gov’t has to constantly appeal to those “common instincts” and the one that always makes a herd in the animal world, including humans, is fear. Animals don’t herd up closely when there are no immediate dangers and if no dangers show up the individual animals will float off to wider pastures. The society doesn’t necessarily break-down it simply becomes more loosely maintained especially if dangers can met by smaller groups the rest of the herd will go on about their buisness without finding the need to become very close and copy each others movements. Another predatory example of a herd is lions, but their need to stay close is their meals are very large animals and it takes a pride of lions to get a meal usually. So predatory needs are also herd mentalities. The constant need for protection (flight) and to attack other animals, ie within the same species at times, (fight) is the animalistic nature. But then their are humans that rise above these needs. Sometimes very many do. I go to the market and people are not drawn into the store because they are running from something coming to kill them (flight) nor are they going into the store to attack and make war (fight). They are able to provide find ways to provide their basic needs without needing to tap into their lowest common denominators. On top of all this they basic needs are met rather quickly and people often find time on their hands that can be used in more leisure activities. Gov’ts like to make lifeboat situations but what is that? That’s simply another way to call maintaining the herd by tapping into the fears of people to get them to pull together into a herd mentality. That’s the consensus way. The forced way would be the gov’t stepping in by initiating coercion in order to maintain the herd if any dissenters WISE up.