Gustave Le Bon: The Nature of Crowds

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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[MrD_]

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority. It's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

[Buffynonplussed]

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.

[jenhgorman]

"Those who compose a crowd is by their nature mediocre." (2.53). Loved that!

[Spiral.Dynamics]

“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

[FABIOh]

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.”

[OptimizeYourJourney]

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!

[joe]

ironically it is happening now with America. what a phenomenal book.

[heyassmanx]

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

[academyofideas]

It's called 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog' by Caspar David Friedrich.

[SP-mfsh]

This channel should have more subscribers than philosophy tube.

[stefangebhard]

"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

[despotzapper]

"Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large Groups" George Carlin.

[duncansh]

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.

[ahmadrusdi]

Great video, there's a surprising relevance this video has about 2 years later, and it was very informative.

[jclester]

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.

[adamthomas]

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.

[amargamentedoce]

Your voice is very nice. I don't get tierd of listen to your videos. Thank you so much for this

[vosto]

Very Good Video, Thank You for the post :)

would have liked a more elaborate lecture though

[zulffiquer]

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.

[MrSchnickel]

I have to compliment the academy for this wonderful and educational movie. The 100 year old information is so in step with our time.