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MEMORIES OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF THE CROWDS

MEMORIES OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF THE CROWDS
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When individuals merge into a crowd, Le Bon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon proposed, that ‘literally’ lose themselves. In so doing, they become a herd, deeply susceptible to suggestion. Crowd deliriums were due to contagious ideas travelling like lightening, not from one rational subject to another, but rather to less than fully conscious beings in the mass. Le Bon’s “law of mental unity” meant that each member of the group sought to imitate the other. To manipulate a group, he wrote, “it is necessary first to take account of the sentiments by which they hare animated to pretend to share them, and then try to modify them, by provoking, by means of rudimentary associations certain very suggestive images.” With the right demagogue, mass suggestion and imitation worked like harms. Almost always. An Arab or Chinese crowd was much more vulnerable than an English crowd. “Stronger” races demonstrated less susceptibility to such irrational behavior. Beware, then, the mass hysterias of inferior races, the Frenchman warned. This, he later added, included Germans. ` Page 182

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