“The crowd is untruth… even if every individual, each for himself in private, were to be in possession of the truth, yet in case they were all to get together in a crowd – a crowd to which any sort of decisive significance is attributed… untruth would at once be in evidence” ~ Kierkegaard

For no two people are identical. Even twins do not grow up under the same circumstances and experience the same experiences. When two people see a word as simple as “home”, they conjure up different image in their mind and react differently. For the truth of “home” is unique to each individual. They can both give the same rough description of a home: a house where one lives. However, it is far from what home really means to them. This agreement of both sides of an inequality is the definition of untruth. By each individual, the truth of “home” is clear, but as soon as the crowd agrees on what home is, it becomes the untruth.

The crowd can only communicate and act as the crowd effectively through the usage of language. This is the most advanced form of communication available to the crowd, in spite of its poor functions. Even if one tries to use more words to describe what he means by a word, he is only digging himself into a yet deeper hole. It’s like raising the power of a fraction and hoping it would reach 1. Thus, any opinions the crowd expresses become the untruth.