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Everybody at a football game is a nobody simply
by virtue of the fact of their deep involvement in
an experience simultaneously shared by many
others. In such a situation, the most famous
person in the world becomes a nobody. This is a
structural fact, and when considered in relation to
our “wired planet,” where everybody is involved in
everybody’s experience, this is the overwhelming
backlash of reduction to non-entity, the creation
of mass man. The mass man is not the vulgar or
the stupid or the unthinking man, but anybody
and everybody who experiences the electric
situation of instant information.