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Young Goodman In the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 27 A-B, the people are given the traditional release of one prisoner. They have a choice, the just man Jesus Christ and the “notable” prisoner Barabbas. When asked which prisoner should be released the people responded, “Barabbas.” (convinced by the chief priests and elders.) Pontius Pilate asks what punishment he should be given. “They all responded: Let him be crucified.” Disturbed by the obvious injustice, Pilate feebly asks, “What evil hath he done'” The people rise in blind, tumultuous cries, “Let him be crucified!” Again, Pilate appeals to them by washing his hands before the people and saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just person.” The impassioned crowd, the tumult rising, calls the accountability upon themselves, “His blood be on us, and on our children!” Bach captures the horrific nature of this event exquisitely in “The St. Matthew Passion.” The chorus explodes into rising human voices, violently one upon the other, in a terrifying spectacle of mob mentality. The listener is disturbed; the wrongness of it frightens and saddens him. This is an example of a mass human sentiment. It is undeniably immoral and frightening in its intensity. The people society, man, bourgeois, people, marx, human, because, proletariat, one, individual, capitalism, social, property, nature, history, being, workers, worker, produces, own, labor, itself, even, work, while, way, product, existence, each, claims, best, become, under, time, thus