The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome, everybody, and you are listening to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world

really works.

And not only do I reveal how the world really works, but I also remind you that the more that things change, the more we need to depend upon

those things that never change.

And one of the things that never changes is that science is a wonderful means of understanding what things do and why they do it.

But science is an inexorably appalling thing for predicting how people behave and why they do.

That's a really important thing to remember. And the development of quasi-scientific areas like

psychiatry and psychology have come up with all kinds of very

interesting things, but they don't fundamentally change the basic truth, which is that science

is excellent at telling us all about how things behave and why they behave that way,

but appalling at telling us why humans behave in certain ways and what those ways are.

Now, when a large number of human beings coalesce and combine and start behaving in unison with one another,

what you have is what could be called a mob. And now all of a sudden, the behavior of that new

creature is very much predictable. Very interesting.

Every single individual person, each and every one of us, unique and individualistic,

but put us together in a group and allow the group to acquire certain mob characteristics.

And if you've ever been in a crowd like that, then you get a little bit of a sense of

what it's like.

If you've ever been in the street of a revolution, whether it is in Asia or whether it's in the Arab world.

But if you are somebody who has been a midst, then you felt it. It's palpable. Then you know

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