So here's the basic summary of the article above. Lieutenant Harry Wales, more popularly known as Prince Harry returned to England from Afghanistan because the secret of him going to Afghanistan got leaked to the public domain and the Ministry of Defense said Harry is being withdrawn immediately. Sir Richard Dannatt, head of the British army thought that Harry should never be in the military and argued against him going to Iraq, saying it was an "Unnecessary risk" . He was later forced to take Harry to Afghanistan. “I got here on Christmas Eve and going from bullet magnet to anti-bullet magnet" Said the 23-year-old Prince Harry in one interview. Also, when asked why he joined the military he answered "I think dressed in the same uniform as numerous other people, thousands of other people in Afghanistan, will give me one of the best chances to be just a normal person".
Harry's feeling towards joining the army relates to the French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist Gustave Le Bon's ideas 'The Crowd'. A crowd is a group of people with a collective mind, and inn the collective mind, individuality is dimished, so the heterogenous (diverse) is drowned by the homogeneous (common) and the unconscious becomes predominant. Therefore, that is the perfect place that Prince Harry wanted to be in, to basically lose his identity and just become one out of thousands of other soldiers, in order to feel 'normal'.
happens to people who see something but cannot attain it or has not experienced it. Whether it is a prince who wants to feel normal, or an 'Average Joe' who wants to be a prince. However, Harry joining the military (a crowd) may not actually be the best way of exeriencing a normal life. There is a difference because the military is a collective mind, on the other hand people's daily lives are far form that. We tend to hold onto our individuality and boast about our uniqueness, especially people in Harry's Age group. Therefore, Harry did experience equality because in the military individual intellect and individuality is diminished and his royalty means nothing. Sevigny, Alexandre. "The Medium Is the Message." Communication Studies 1A03, Sevigny, Alexandre. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: McMaster University Custom Courseware Production Services, 2004. 177-184.
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