Gustave Le Bon: The Nature of Crowds
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- In this video we provide a summary of the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon's classic and highly influential work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. In this work Le Bon investigates the nature of crowd psychology.
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority. It's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: (riots?)
@@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh wow this is very interesting and makes sense.
@@pekbekmkek6310 the Bible has many answers and I try to warn the sheep
@@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh i am grateful to God for finding your comment and thanks for your service. it is always nice to be pointed by another Christian to passages that confirm what i already believed to be right or in this case wrong. God bless you
@@pekbekmkek6310 I have hundreds of Bible studies on my channel. visit sometime while I am still on the tube.
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
Gustave ale Bon, The Crowd 1895
Very relevant now more than ever
Perfect way to describe American politics
Try tell the masses that they have been scammed with this fake virus. They will want to kill you
They would rather walk of a cliff then face the truth...
teddy boef turn off Fox and take a deep breath...presumably through your open mouth lol. My 28yo friend who spent a week in ICU with the virus and has a 38k bill to prove it ain’t fake lol You’re the type of guy who 2mo ago said it is no different than the flu and still haven’t acknowledged it has now killed more than double the flu lmao Brother, Fox and CNN are NOT news they are political marketing that I hope you recognize contributes nothing to your or my life
Man, don't pay any attention to criticisms about your reading techniques. It was thoughtful of you to take the time to put this together for us all. This is very useful information for people trying to learn discernment. Thank you. You read just fine.
I put my trust in our CREATOR YAHUAH ,abba,father ! Take care and beware of false guides and fools on the run! Amein.
Okay, Mrs. self-righteous SJW! What utter arrogance you possess to assume you're righteous and important enough to passive aggressively chastise everyone else for expressing their opinion! Does it really satisfy your ego that much?
@@markdemell3717 Tell my you are one of the crowd without telling me you are part of the crowd. Lol.
@@markdemell3717 ya lili ya lila alhamdulillah ya meihn yalla allahu akbur yaame
Crowd rules in effect. He’s doing something right! Agreed this man puts out great content. It’s not for the masses
"Those who compose a crowd is by their nature mediocre." (2.53). Loved that!
And what about: "All unanimity is dumb" ?
Because they by nature do not think for themselves.
7:45 Le Bon concluded this in 1895. It is shocking how current this thought is.
“In crowds the foolish, ignorant, and envious persons are freed from the sense of their insignificance and powerlessness, and are possessed instead by the notion of brutal and temporary but immense strength.”
Incels
"When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need of something apart from us to live for."
--Eric Hoffer
Nice. I just posted a response about Eric Hoffer's book, The True Believer. It's nice to see other people have tapped that goldmine of societal insight, too.
ironically it is happening now with America. what a phenomenal book.
Great vid. This one caught my attention personally, as I've always felt extremely uncomfortable and unsettled in crowds, as if my individuality were dissolving within it. This always confused me because everyone else seemed to revel in the atmosphere and get more fired up from it. Digressing a bit, I thought it was great that you touched upon how little the crowd actually knows about the ideas it supports
I feel.very much the same. In school, I always hated "group work". It made no sense when I needed to be graded on what I alone could do.
This channel should have more subscribers than philosophy tube.
Wow, this explains so much about what is happening to people lately. Lately it's getting out of hand and it's mostly because more intelligent and powerful people are pulling the strings behind the scenes to incorporate as many blind people as they can get to rally to a false cause.
People have outsourced their intellect. Find The Corbett Report for a clear breakdown of what’s going on.
Agreed. However, they are not more intelligent nor powerful than us. They are evil and they know how to manipulate crowds especially. What they're refusing to let go of is called "perceived power." Tell them NO and they throw a fit, like a spoiled child. In fact, we ALL need to stand up and say NO. Especially now.
To call those people “intelligent” gave me nice laugh. Fools follow fools.
@@digitalmagefilms8992 well said. Agreed
Funny how Gustave cited that an assembly of Judges were prone to rash decisions, simply due to of the psycho-group trance they have formed. Anyhow, great video. I enjoyed the thorough summary. Keep it up!
"Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large Groups" George Carlin.
"I still love Justin" Britney Spears
Let me add one thing. Crowds are great for music and other art events, it gives us that awe inspiring social interaction that we all need to experience. Other than that the best social change comes from individuals going through their own personal paradigms(based on logical thought of course) not influenced by the masses or some silly dogma.
Je vous invite à lire le livre jusqu'à la fin surtout le passage concernant la notion de Prestige.
En complément lisez " PROPAGANDA" d'Édouard BERNAYS et " la fabrique de l'opinion" par walter LIPMANN.
Enfin jetez un œil sur les expériences de MILGRAM :vous découvrirez un monde caché " an underworld" en nous mêmes que vous ne pouvez guère soupçonner.
BTW: One small detail continually overlooked by researchers under the age of 50 or so, is the amazing extent of public self-perception that has taken place, solely due to the advent of Television and the accelerant of the Internet.Almost nobody today was alive and grew during that evolution and experienced its impact properly .However, my well over half century of experiential research tells that sadly, the mob/crowd has not evolved at all. Facts mean nothing, emotion is still all and it is still driven by the tiny number of people who actually do own us. The "public Will" is a fool's gambit held out by Our Owners.
Deception meant, not perception?
The desire to someone to change his/her own identity is already a sign that one was part of a crowd, obviously or not.
In a crowd, we are de-individualized and assume the identity of the crowd. It is the moment, when the most heinous or the most awakening events take place. Now a days, the crow and its behavior are manipulated.
Reading his book really changed my view on the world, humanity and its beliefs.
I see it in daily life.
I was raised in a very religious family but always had my problems with the religious beliefs.
I now understand so much about all of that.
7 billion people 90k wanting to learn something
Great video, there's a surprising relevance this video has about 2 years later, and it was very informative.
Games: I am 87 yo and as a kid in a poor town we did not have a organized sports controlled by adults. We kids just played according to our own ideas. We would choose sides according to our own whims as kids. Nobody was left out... it was fun! Then adults took over and imposed their ideas...things changed... IMO, for the worse. Team sports are mini crowds .... Le Bon's ideas apply, in some ways, to sports teams and fans.
We used to play "Evel Knievel" in the alley that had a steep incline. We jumped over 55 gallon drums that were (back then) used as garbage cans. Whoever jumped over the most barrels won. The 'landing' was not important as long as you didn't hit a barrel. We usually wiped out, it was rare to actually hit a landing without wiping out. Good times! Well then the parents started questioning why so many of the neighborhood boys were coming home all beat to tar and decided our extremely fun game wasn't fun enough, or something, and made us stop. Thank you for your comment, it sparked the memory of my "Born To Be Wild" biker days!
"A mob of boys means trouble." My mom 1979
Ann Coulter has a great book called “Demonic” and it’s on Le Bons book. Great book.
@Beumadine Sweevy actually great advice that surely wont be understood..
@Beumadine Sweevy would make sense to have a crazy eye when you let something in. not that i approve of this channels way to see things that i believe are forbidden to us but crrow777 had the last show about eyes, did only briefly listen to it.
@Beumadine Sweevy you are right thank you very much. i notice the seriousness of choosing the right way and sticking to what God has imprinted in us strongly for a longer time now. stay strong and thanks for the according and fitting advice.
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Who's here about Covid-19 too? :)
It's called 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog' by Caspar David Friedrich.
Your voice is very nice. I don't get tierd of listen to your videos. Thank you so much for this
I have to compliment the academy for this wonderful and educational movie. The 100 year old information is so in step with our time.
For me freedom is the ability that somebody has to take decisions that will provide him even more choices. Ability to choose is freedom.
Thanks for leading us mate! TBH you're an inspiration, and I will follow the footsteps of what you're doing, that is, concisely and factually simplifying ideas for the greater masses. Just a suggestion to you though, throw in more of what you think! Sure, there will be internet trolls or social justice warriors who will roast you simply for providing an opinion, but if you died tomorrow- you'd be nothing but a dude who talked about other people's work. You're clearly intelligent and capable of coming up with your own narrative of the world, and thus I believe you should take a crack at it! I'll hit you up again once I actually publish some of my own, creative content. Thanks again man!
This is relevant right now. Thanks.
Thank you so much Academy Of Ideas for your effort. I truly an in debt to your research & hardwork 🙏
The unknown psychologist who wrote "...if people crowd together and form a mob, then the dynamisms of the collective man are let loose..." was apparently Carl Gustav Jung.
Last quote is more relevant than ever before
and here we are with mass formation of our times
I will have to check that out, as I've never heard of it. Thank you.
This video is priceless! Had to watch at 0.75x
He nailed what would later be termed: deindividuation.
It is the mark of an "Educated Mind" to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. -Aristotle
ANOTHER WONDERFULLY INSIGHTFUL GIFT FROM ACADEMY OF IDEAS. THANK YOU.
Thank you for this channel, it’s one of my favorites. Why even read books anymore? Let the best quotes win!
@breakfast meat and we should ban reading also (only reading)
Well done! Nice! The philosophy of the conjugal mind! The wanting becomes a threshold of what has become determined! In thoughts the mind wains as it is strengthened. Effort defines what realism has been spoken! Every turn is a turn in themselves, it is not whats turns, but what can be turned - the difference between the individual and the crowd!
Thank you. Man is a social animal.
I have been searching for this title. I believe, like Nietzsche, le Bon's work was misinterpreted, abused & misused especially by Nazi's (Goebbels) but imbued with a degree of sophistication, is now also being abused, it is a valuable work. Also the strategies common to many in members exhibiting group behaviour, if understood can be neutralised & detoxified. I have always been interested in what I term group dynamic (because it now seems only to be elucidated for commercial ventures & organisational management ipso facto profit, which I find devalues this study).
Wow. This has never been truer or displayed more prominently as it has in Canada over the past three years.
A careful reading of Eric Hoffer's "The true Believer" addresses and nicely analyzes exactly what is going on in America right now, and why.
All the comments are several years old and i am making an effort to send this video out to as many people i know. I read the book from Le Bon in Germany 1962. Little did i know how important is to understand the force of crowed right now.
Good video. You should read 'the wisdom of crowds' im not advocating the book is any good. but the author james suroweicki claims that crowds are smarter. It would be interesting comparing the two books since many people think the crowd is smarter. etc
Brilliant video, thanks so much. Really helpful and interesting to watch/listen!
Yup
Le Bon was wrong in one thing. It doesn't matter whether you believe in something because of idiocy, or because you have reasoned it well - at the end of the day, you got hooked by a cause. Intelligent men can be as vicious, revolutionary and self-sacrificing for the benefit of a cause.
"inteligent men" a.k.a. "leaders"
Le Bon made it clear to deffirentiate between intelligence & charachter
He said in mass the diffrence in intelligence between the greatest mathematician and the idiot is very wide but in charctere its very small often inexistant at all
Is wisdom statistically insignificant enough to be neglected as a source of authority nowadays?
Please delete your comment, it's stupid and you clearly haven't read anything.
I think I should read the book.
Lol, this is why I don't hang out with crowds!
My words may not effect the crowd nor disperse a mob, but a fart can
@@lowlife9626 havent showered for 2 weeks, how's that?
A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep
Damn this was such a good analysis and compilation. I've been a victim of crowd mobbing and can attest to immoral collectivism.
Best channel on UA-cam good work bro
Solitude is peace.
Thanks academy!
I came here because I was reading a book ``trading for a living`` in which this book was recommended.
You have such a great channel, I wish you had added English subtitles to the videos.
Nice summary. One of Rogan's podcast led me here.
Very good video.
For those who have the ears to hear...
A very hermetic perspective ;)
This can be personified by agent smiths in the matrix who aim to crush neo who represents the individual
it's nice to see this channel growing so big!
Please post more videos about Le Bon.Thank You
Great short lesson
Very good. Consider doing a follow-up on this exact topic by summarizing major highlights from Freud's "Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego." A review of the similarities and differences would be interesting. Of course, just doing Freud's work on Group Psychology without comparing it to LeBon would be worthwhile in its own right. Thanks.
Transforming information, truly it is
wonderful work, thanx for that. but why do the videos end so abruptly? i think a proper outro would strengthen the experience of watching your videos.
Thank You
I've read the first chapter of The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Gustave Le Bon and I find it hard to believe that people in crowds become as dumb as described in the book. I'd like to know what other people think about this and hopefully rid me of my doubt by presenting me with evidence that proves that Gustave is correct on this matter. Thank you in advance. 🙂
I think we’re always striving for efficiency of effort. In large crowds we need to think less rather than more. It would explain why a crowd regresses to its primal instincts of brutality
What this video misses is a huge disclaimer that Lebons theories are far from scientific. They are rather a list of thoughts he had in his time. While some thoughts seem persuading the empiric evidence mostly tells us a different story. Masses are not as stupid as LeBon thinks they are. Don't forget before writing the psychology of the masses, he wrote the psychology of the races... obviously we have to regard it in the historical framework but we have to do the same for psychology of the masses.
Oh wow. My social psychology "teacher" never talked about this guy.
Very Good Video, Thank You for the post :)
would have liked a more elaborate lecture though
that's a great video! thank you for your work!
Simply Brilliant!
Wow, I never knew this guy even him was ahead of his time like all his contemporaries
i've always thought this! nice to hear others opinion on it. Love your videos :P
Timely.
This is a good summary of Le Bon's ideas. It captures neatly how Le Bon conceptualised the core dynamics of the revolutionary crowd in 19th Century France. Its particularly good at drawing out how Le Bon recognised the dynamics of empowerment that we now know are critical to understanding crowd psychology. However, the video treats Le Bon's theory as if it is valid. It misses the way in which this theory reifies the crowd, treating as universal what are outcomes of social processes at work in the 19th Century. Not all crowds are violent so how can a theory that presupposes they are be valid? Equally, it ignores the problems inherent in assuming that crowds are irrational and intellectually inferior. It completely ignores the ideological nature of Le Bonian theory and its incapacity to explain the ideological form of the crowd's violence in the 19th Century. His ideas began to be challenged in the 20th Century by the great historians such as Rude and the Tilly's who show very powerfully that Le Bon's ideas cannot explain the behaviour of crowds of that time. Consequently, Le Bon's ideas have been rejected from social psychology and replaced with a model based on Self Categorisation Theory. I would suggest that this is a narrowly focused video that needs to acknowledge the problematic nature of Le Bon's ideas and recognise the broader literature that has emerged since the 19th Century on the psychology of crowds.
This is just a bunch of nonsensical gibberish, trying to conceal the fact that the book hasn't been read, nor the theory understood.
Well read, thanks.
Thank you very much!
Thanks. Well done.
Excellent!
‘Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. To begin with I turn back time…’
thank a lot it is a great introduction to the book :) subscribed
This is why you can't get through to people during Rona-19.
in contrast albeit more in completion of lebon's work i would suggest canetti, althought his ideas may not be up to date i found his research to shed to light something more detailed and by studying various models of societies at different stages of developpement, it shows that crowd behaviors aren't necessarily born from outside individual influences, this serves my own system of belief which i will mention briefly as waving a black and red piece of cloth because we couldn't afford a flag. the limit of the intellectual process is that it tries to rationalize, and this rationalization applied to an insuffiscient level causes men to stop at unanswerable questions with a quick dogmatic answer. emotion is bad when applied to politically motivated social behavior (even if we all have our preferences), but on an individual level i think they are at the center of our actions, having been in the pit of depression, i can tell you that in a whim, being somewhat fullfilled and contempt is irrational with the conditions necessary in this world for sentience to evolve in, but like passing waves, they are key to understanding our profound individual nature, which if i had to sum it up to a crowd, freedom is gained throught overcoming emotions key to who you are. if a lot of this is debatable (which i will gladly elaborate/put into question)
P.S: if it interests any one i made a concept album of psychedelic/prog rock some time ago that goes around the concept of crowds inspired by canetti/lebon, which in theory would unite a crowd entrance it to a level beyond their understanding and then is supposed to achieve a sentient crowd (althought at the time i didn't have a band to record it or play it so in practice i doubt it would work) nebuloussun.bandcamp.com/album/the-storyteller
It seems wise to me to study how the various Prophets and Manifestations of God
addressed the masses so as not to ignite emotion alone: ie Palm
Sunday followed by the crowd asking for the death of Jesus. What does a pure heart hear when logic and spiritual insight are combined?
So guys there's one video on this channel that mentions a quote about people worrying of diseases of the body when they should be aware of diseases of the mind something along those lines i've googled it and watched most videos and still cant find it, anyone know?
Thanks for sharing 🌻
Good thing I'm antisocial
@@RustyMadd the ones who cannot connect
bad thing nobdoy asked you
Ahmad Gamel nobody asked for your response either
A public response is a public invitation for response.
you mean asocial
I think what you're calling a crowd would be better characterized as a collective and to me a crowd would be more just a gathering of many people who don't necessarily have to share anything in common because there's a difference between the two and it can be a little confusing when you use the wrong term for a collective of like-minded individuals
Good point
le bon got one thing right: duran duran :)
When I go to church I am part of the crowd. It would be impossible for me to stand up infront of such a crowd to say something to disagree with a priest during a homily. When the prime minister of your country is talking to a crowd on remembrance day its impossible to stand up and yell at him. At a sports game when the national anthem is playing its impossible for most people to yell a disagreement over it.
A response to the threat of Democracy, justifying the continued oligarchy in a shift from the divine right of Kings, landed gentry, and aristocracy to elitism, technocracy, and neoliberalism.
because its not what democracy is
I Love Your Videos On This Shit Bro Thumps Up.💯
If Le Bon had witnessed the chaos at Evergreen three years ago & what resulted from it, he would've had a field day....
Can you make a video on Fascism?
far easier to heard with the content E- social programmings
Would have been nice to include the critics Le Bon had to his hypothesis (to give one example: Gabriel Tarde). Unless the purpose of this video is to convince others that Le Bon was right about masses dominating over individual's thoughts, desires and beliefs...
It's just a summary of his book
So, what is the charismatic leader that can tap into this energy? Danton, Wilkes, Lenin.
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