My point is that there's a difference between beginning to emulate/think like a person and feeling part of a large group. There are texts that prompt the former (Uncle Tom's Cabin comes to mind), and there are texts that give people an intellectual reason to want to form or maintain particular large groups (Paine's Common Sense comes to mind), but as for texts that foster *feeling* part of a large group, I can't think of any examples from pre-T.V. times or since whereas there are plenty both in the spoken word (JFK's inauguration speech, for example) and in television (American Idol).