Special thanks to Professor Patrick Deneen who spoke to the student body about Tocqueville's Democracy in America. At one point, professor Deneen read to us from the following excerpt:

"I am trying to imagine under what novel features despotism may appear in the world. In the first place, I see an innumerable multitude of men, alike and equal, constantly circling around in pursuit of the petty and banal pleasures with which they glut their souls. Each one of them, withdrawn into himself, is almost unaware of the fate of the rest…." https://www.goodreads.com/…/6870659-i-am-trying-to-imagine-…