Le Pen may be the person who despises groups the most in the world, but is also the person who understands them best.
"The Crowd", which he completed in 1895, with prophetic insight, almost succeeded in describing all the major events that shook the world in the next hundred years or so. Including two world wars and numerous democratic revolutions or mass movements.
Some people accuse Le Pen of having his theories on groups and leaders used by dictatorial regimes such as Hitler and Mussolini. But de Gaulle, Churchill, and Roosevelt also learned a lot from it. To this day, "The Crowd" remains the go-to classic for any individual or group seeking to understand group psychology and behavioral patterns for any purpose.
This book is especially suitable for reading in China today.
Reader comments
If a group does not want to be engulfed by other groups, then the group must do its best to develop group ideas. Ignorance impulse is inherent in the group, but if there is only ignorance impulse, then the group will be annihilated. Secondly, I also believe that interests dominate group characteristics. Interests can be divided into material interests and spiritual interests, or ideal interests. Only interests can stimulate the psychology of individuals. When there are more people, the desire for interests will amplify and form the characteristics of the group.
The understanding of personal life is probably to expand one's view of the group. It can be said to be a refreshment of the group concept. Thank you, rabble.
The progress and development of human beings must be accompanied by various conflicts, whether it is ideas, culture, religion, military, etc. The law of nature is that the weak eat the strong.
Putting human history into the long river of time, people always say that history should not be forgotten, but history always repeats itself.
This book is worth reading in your spare time
Some of the language is a little obscure, but the principles described in the book are very profound.
A hundred years ago and a hundred years later, nothing seems to have changed
It explains the word group very well, from which you can experience some phenomena and situations of imaginary and embodied network groups, real society, and historical changes.
The truth is very profound, and most of the examples given are incomprehensible...
It would be nice to read this book quickly and gain some insights.
If a group does not want to be engulfed by other groups, then the group must do its best to develop group ideas. Ignorance impulse is inherent in the group, but if there is only ignorance impulse, then the group will be annihilated. Secondly, I also believe that interests dominate group characteristics. Interests can be divided into material interests and spiritual interests, or ideal interests. Only interests can stimulate the psychology of individuals. When there are more people, the desire for interests will amplify and form the characteristics of the group. The understanding of personal life is probably to expand one's view of the group. It can be said to be a refreshment of the group concept. Thank you, rabble.
The progress and development of human beings must be accompanied by various conflicts, whether it is ideas, culture, religion, military, etc. The law of nature is that the weak eat the strong. Putting human history into the long river of time, people always say that history should not be forgotten, but history always repeats itself.
This book is worth reading in your spare time
Some of the language is a little obscure, but the principles described in the book are very profound.
A hundred years ago and a hundred years later, nothing seems to have changed
It explains the word group very well, from which you can experience some phenomena and situations of imaginary and embodied network groups, real society, and historical changes.
The truth is very profound, and most of the examples given are incomprehensible...
It would be nice to read this book quickly and gain some insights.