Lily King. Euphoria (№ 383936)

...I don't trust the crowd - hundreds of people meaningless came together, driven by basic impulses: food, drink and sex. The Hairdryer claims that if you disable your own brain, you can reunite with another brain, the group consciousness, collective consciousness, and that this dizzying form of human community that we have lost, withdrawn into personality, unless you count trips to the war. About that and speech.