âThe Crowdâ - one of the greatest works on psychology, in which one of the most prominent French psychologists Gustave Le Bon, trying to understand and put on the shelves the regularities of behavior of crowds of people - the crowd.
In this case, Le Bon divides a simple âcrowd of peopleâ from the âanimated crowdâ, the spontaneous formation of which begins to obey completely different laws than each and any of the individuals entering this society. According to the author, such a âanimated crowdâ can be formed even with the number of 6 persons or more. All the properties of a personality in such âformationâ recede into the background. Everything logical, self-centered and personal in such a mass of people is instantly suppressed by the individuals themselves, and completely other properties of people - subconscious ones - come out. Feelings and emotions of all those included in such âformationâ are close to primitive and instinctive emotions and reactions. Moreover, such a âcrowdâ does not show and does not know other traits. At the same time, along with base and animal emotions, the animated crowd often has aspirations to fatal self-sacrifice and self-denial.
Such âformationâ begins to resemble an unconscious animal, which, obviously, can be controlled like an animal trainer in a circus. The role of trainers begins to be played by âleadersâ. And the âanimated crowdâ trained by them turns into an engine capable of transforming social and political reality in the most fundamental way, both regionally and globally!
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Russian Edition] - Gustave Le Bon & Petr Taganov
âThe Crowdâ - one of the greatest works on psychology, in which one of the most prominent French psychologists Gustave Le Bon, trying to understand and put on the shelves the regularities of behavior of crowds of people - the crowd.
In this case, Le Bon divides a simple âcrowd of peopleâ from the âanimated crowdâ, the spontaneous formation of which begins to obey completely different laws than each and any of the individuals entering this society. According to the author, such a âanimated crowdâ can be formed even with the number of 6 persons or more. All the properties of a personality in such âformationâ recede into the background. Everything logical, self-centered and personal in such a mass of people is instantly suppressed by the individuals themselves, and completely other properties of people - subconscious ones - come out. Feelings and emotions of all those included in such âformationâ are close to primitive and instinctive emotions and reactions. Moreover, such a âcrowdâ does not show and does not know other traits. At the same time, along with base and animal emotions, the animated crowd often has aspirations to fatal self-sacrifice and self-denial.
Such âformationâ begins to resemble an unconscious animal, which, obviously, can be controlled like an animal trainer in a circus. The role of trainers begins to be played by âleadersâ. And the âanimated crowdâ trained by them turns into an engine capable of transforming social and political reality in the most fundamental way, both regionally and globally!