The Masses

I wrote a review of The Revenge of the Masses yesterday, but today I deleted it.

I still consider this an important work, but I think he should be credited mostly for his discovery of the Masses. A huge discovery that continues to be ignored everywhere.

The Masses have made the democracies of the world, the rule of the Masses, who are stupid by their very nature.

They were made possible by the invention of mass communications, beginning with the Radio - that all the dictators of the Thirties (FDR, Hitler, Mussolini) made full use of.

But Ortega y Gasset did not notice in the Civil War in his own country - Spain.

He should have immigrated to NYC and taught at the New School, with all the other intellectuals there. That way he would have made a huge impact on world history - instead of being easily forgotten.