The beast, the state and the empire

The ‘beast’ is raging all across the lands. By the ‘beast’ we mean the ‘mass,’ foot stepping the tradition of the founding fathers of the United States of America (Thomas Jefferson). To be sure, these erudite scholars were not employing the word lightly just in jest. They earnestly wanted a shorthand expression for what they perceived to be a perplexing behavior of the then undifferentiated ‘mass’! It is not for idle reasons, the phrases ‘mob justice’, ‘mob psychology’, ‘ mob rule’, ‘mob etc’ were coined. Be that as it may, why is the ‘beast’ on the rampage today?