Le Bon deals with the main psychological forces at play when it comes to the behaviour of crowds | More than 100 years, this book still describes so perfectly crowd behaviors |
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It predates the use of survey research and is mainly philosophical speculation | Looking at the nowadays social events, political incidents, we can see so easily humans are looking for saviors, let's say leader |
le bon's analysis is not only extremely antiquated, but also definitely bigoted, racist, misogynistic and, most of all, REEKS of classism.
This tendency to bring all the factors described into harmony with his concept runs through the book and also reveals a, for the time, very talented self-marketing, which hints at his other works | I arrived from a conclusion from this book, which is the power of persuasiveness have great power |
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For example, why are there so many harmful comments on social media? Thus, the psychology of crowds should be investigated with technology-involved interruptions | Once everyone notices the power of becoming invisible, the only thing visible becomes the crowd |
despite of the criticism of disrespectful to women and kids, his ideas were still consider a very insightful observation.
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