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No kidding. The crowd stuff is weird that way.
I didn't mean rubberneckers, but rather a working crowd around the event. It's usually easy to tell if people are spectating or participating.
I have noticed herd behavior also works in other ways. Get out and ask for hands of people who've called emergency services, then suggest moving in to assist. You can gather a team of help in short order. Sure, many hang back to speculate about liability or which professionals might already be on the way but it can bump others off the fence.
Anyway, I'm not exactly mr. rescue. I haven't done more than call or pull people from ditches for a number of years, probably due to reduced leisure miles. Knocking on wood.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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