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It's a hundred people lifting a bus in a coordinated action to help. That's something remarkable and we should have examples of it documented. As you can see, it ended on a news article about one hundred people lifting a bus in a coordinated action to help.



>> That's something remarkable and we should have examples of it documented.

Why though? What is gained from its documentation?


Psychological case study.

In many instances, the crowd will do nothing because collectively, nobody knows what needs done. Cases like this start from a core few somehow figuring out how to pierce the crowd-mind was able to get a bus lifted and someone saved.

It would be a great way to figure out how to collectively amass people like this when the need arises, and use them for constructive good.




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