Crowds are without a doubt difficult to manage, especially if they are made up complete strangers. In a large public crowd, people can do as they please, there is usually no figure of authority and things tend to get very chaotic. Take for example a Singaporean fair. In Singapore, many can be described as “Kiasu” an unofficial term for “being very opportunist and precautious”. In Singapore, fairs such as a computer fair can be very, very chaotic, as you would imagine, as people tend to behave with this “kiasu” attitude.Every year I attend the annual Singapore IT fare, and as per the norm, the crowd was massive and uncontrollable. Everywhere I turned, there were sales which in a way, metaphorically speaking, act as a light source drawing people like swarms of insects all frantically rushing to get the best bargain at the cheapest prices. It seems almost impossible to get through these barricades, however, if not for the people who traffic the customers, no one would get anywhere and nothing would be done.

When controlling small children, there isn’t really much a person can do but to entice children with sweets and candy and trade the candy for their silence and cooperation as a child’s sweet tooth would always get the better of it. However, in handling teenagers, it is a totally different case altogether. Teenagers would never accept candy for their cooperation when in crowds or groups, the only way to get a teenage group’s attention, is to have a fierce and older figure that teenagers can look up to and yet fear at the same time. Only these figures of authority are able to gain a teenagers respect and be able to control them and that is why in secondary schools, there are headmasters which discipline the students by different forms of “persuasion” usually by the notorious shouting and detention. In camps, when students run camps for other students, the leaders usually control the crowd not by force, but by making friends with them, similar to making an alliance only there are no papers and real agreements between the students.

However, when handling adult groups, things can get rather nasty, as adults can be unpredictable. Some will follow instructions given by superiority while some may do as they please without a care in the world. Even with the law in place, some may still choose to disobey and react violently if given instructions by others. Take for example a group of drunken people. Drunkards are not allowed to drive once in their state but however, if someone advises them to not do so, they both agree and follow advice, or react and attack the person. Thus adults are unpredictable and in my opinion, the only way to handle an adult group is through the police.

And so, my suggestion for controlling the behaviour of a large group of people would be to have a figure of extreme authority always in place to induce fear into groups of people so as to have order and control over the people.
And in my opinion, that would be me as I am the fiercest Big Bad Boss there is on the Planet!!!

Let me tell you a story.... once upon a time i had always wanted a dog and when i finally got it, i named my dog, dog. One day dog, my dog, met another dog at the park whose name was not dog, but was a dog, which was similar to my dog, dog. Dog, my dog, was angry and called the other dog not named dog, a dog. Instinctively the other dog not named dog reacted in a dog like manner which was bark and more bark, and still more bark. Which was very dog like for a dog that was like my dog, dog, even though it wasnt him as dog was my dog and a very good dog unlike the other dog not named dog.
AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!
THE END!