I guess we've all probably heard the term "groupthink" by now. It's that old herd mentality that seems to bring out the best and the worst in people. By the best, I mean that sometimes a shepherd will surface. But that's an unlikely scenario. It's usually the wolves that will surface first, and the herd will be primed and ready to follow. What we're trying to do here is break up the herd before we are incapable of seeing, hearing, thinking and doing for ourselves. People who are capable of thinking for themselves will rarely be part of any herd.
Yesterday I was in Ryazan, a town in about 200 kilometers (125 miles) South-Easter from Moscow. Nothing special except maybe architecture of previous centuries. Some pictures from http://picasaweb.google.com/dsmurashev/Ryazan