If there are a number of people it's a good thing to realise that they are there, and
to see them. An important sensation: a strong point in circuses, arenas, bull rings. It is this visual solidarity that is the main value of large meetings. If
the people don't actually see one another there, the occasion has the remoteness of abstract numbers. You are told that it was a meeting of 100,000 but you are not aware of it because you didn't see them. Instructions have to be given over the loudspeaker -a depressing sensation which reminds one of the hypnotised crowds during the war, before the war.