The collective punishment of a populace has its own grim legacy in western historical memory.
The fact is that Clinton has to submit to almost as much grooming every single goddamn day as an A-list actress does on Oscars night, just so she can get on with her job and not cause collective disgust in the populace at what a sixtysomething woman looks like.
Every other station is pumping out programming based on maddening gender stereotypes, putting it out into the collective mind of a populace that accepts the prejudice as if it is normal, as if it is perhaps the offshoot of innate genetic differences between men and women.
The authority of the state "encompasses only a certain portion … of the collective power of the populace" and even when state power exerts a certain preponderance it can do so only "through the cooperation of psychological impulses" (Dilthey 1989, 132).
He says that historically, art was used to shape a collective narrative and control the populace, whether through icons, architecture, books, or drawings.
Journalistic portraits of Iran often reflect a populace with a collective and public sense of defeat and disillusionment, who privately engage in and celebrate Western traditions and values.
But a less literal reading of the title suggests that "it" is something more subtle: a collective apathy, born of ignorance, and a populace that can no longer make the kind of judgments that participatory democracy requires.
As the long roll call of mass shootings added a prosaic holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif., to its list, a wide expanse of America's populace finds itself engulfed in a collective fear, a fear tinged with confusion and exasperation and a broad brew of emotions.
Is society enhanced by a married populace, or is the institution largely irrelevant to our collective happiness?
When Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton, left the hospital on Tuesday holding their son, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, they were greeted by a collective cooing not just from the media and the rest of the nonroyal populace, but from advertisers, too.
