'For, in its mythomania, the Crowd today only worships itself. It wants a Hero, but from him asks for a guarantee of absolute mediocrity. Hercules doesn't have to exert himself, nor does he have to prevail. Take a crowd and give it a toss, when it falls it will be in a circle, in order to worship whoever has landed in the center and who ipso facto represents it. Or it will settle down into a pyramid, acclaiming whomever chance has placed at its top...'
from a note in the 1956-1960 section of Occasional Notebooks, in The Via Veneto Papers by Ennio Flaiano
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