“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.”
Sounds like your pretty-much-average, friendly-neighbourhood rally outside any Hong Kong police station on any given night, but this was how George Orwell described a mob being whipped up into a frenzy of irrational hatred in his great dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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