you gotter love the name

if nothing else. I was in the Mathieson Library on campus looking for suitable material for a Language course and I went from the 800s (litersature) into the 900s which i thought was history but anyway I camew across Ortega y Gasset. I hadn't struck that name since Politics 1 at uni 30 or so years ago. Ortega y Gasset, Franz Fanon, Paolo Freire, Noam Chomsky, Liberation Theology, Anarchism run together. I looked at Ortega's The Revolt of the Masses and reflected that this edition, 1930's was written with the background of impending Spanish Civil War and Anarchism and one paragraph stood out - "Society is always a dynamic unity of minorities and masses as component parts. The minoriites are individuals or groups which are specially qualified. The mass is an assemblage of persons not specially qualified. The 'mass' is the average man. In this way, what was QUANTITY is converted into a qualitative determination: it becomes the common social quality, man as undifferentiated from other men, but as repeating in himself a generic type. What have we gained from this conversion of quantity into quality? Simply this - by means of the latter we understand the genesis of the former." And so on he develops his reasoning.