Hmmm, whether Alcuin who lived in the 8th century would have been pleased to hear or very, very worried that his bonmot still holds up in 2022? 🤔

"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, *Vox populi, vox Dei*, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00000192