““This was the same warning José Ortega y Gasset gave when he wrote Revolt of the Masses in 1930: “The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.”24 “I’m as good as you,” Screwtape chortles at the end of his address, “is a useful means for the destruction of democratic societies.””
