Lies, like shadows, distort reality, warping shapes from various angles.
A crowd creates a large shadow.
At first, the crowd primarily wants confirmation of its illusions, wants to be deceived. And when rays of reality penetrate through the dense shadow - it denies, gets outraged, hates the one who tells it as it is. And adores the one who lies to it. Later, when the situation gets into a dead end, the crowd gets outraged that it has been lied to. And turns against the one who lied. And destroys.
Reality is unpleasant. It shatters the hope built on illusions and self-deception. And to lose hope, even illusory, is terrifying. Only a few can accept reality.
Reality exists regardless of illusions and desires. An object has no shadow when it is transparent, self-luminous, or completely surrounded by light sources.
No one in the crowd considers themselves to be the crowd. They dream that it is their own choice and the crowd will always blame everyone except themselves.
This is how propaganda is born and dies.
I would like to say that there is a choice whether to be a crowd or not. It depends on how fate is shaped, what choices people make themselves, and how insurmountable biological mechanisms work.
But often, biological mechanisms win.
Either a crowd or an individual.