Gustave Le Bon: The Nature of Crowds 

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

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

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.

“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

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.”

This channel should have more subscribers than philosophy tube.

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

"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

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

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

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!

Get the transcript: academyofideas.com/2013/07/the-nature-of-crowds/

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.

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

The desire to someone to change his/her own identity is already a sign that one was part of a crowd, obviously or not.

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.

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.

ANOTHER WONDERFULLY INSIGHTFUL GIFT FROM ACADEMY OF IDEAS. THANK YOU.

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

Thank you so much Academy Of Ideas for your effort. I truly an in debt to your research & hardwork 🙏

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.

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

This is my favorite book of all time!

"A mob of boys means trouble." My mom 1979

7 billion people 90k wanting to learn something

it's nice to see this channel growing so big!

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!

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.

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.

Last quote is more relevant than ever before

Brilliant video, thanks so much. Really helpful and interesting to watch/listen!

Best channel on RU-vid good work bro

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

that's a great video! thank you for your work!

Who's here about Covid-19 too? :)

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.

Ann Coulter has a great book called “Demonic” and it’s on Le Bons book. Great book.

Thank you for this channel, it’s one of my favorites. Why even read books anymore? Let the best quotes win!

Please post more videos about Le Bon.Thank You

Transforming information, truly it is

He nailed what would later be termed: deindividuation.

For me freedom is the ability that somebody has to take decisions that will provide him even more choices. Ability to choose is freedom.

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.

Thanks academy!

i've always thought this! nice to hear others opinion on it. Love your videos :P

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.

and here we are with mass formation of our times

Simply Brilliant!

This video is priceless! Had to watch at 0.75x

Lol, this is why I don't hang out with crowds!

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

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.

Great short lesson

I think I should read the book.

Well read, thanks.

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

thank a lot it is a great introduction to the book :) subscribed

You have such a great channel, I wish you had added English subtitles to the videos.

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.

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).

Thank you very much!

Nice summary. One of Rogan's podcast led me here.

Wow. This has never been truer or displayed more prominently as it has in Canada over the past three years.

Very Good Video, Thank You for the post :) would have liked a more elaborate lecture though

Excellent!

Thanks for sharing 🌻

Very good video.

Thanks. Well done.

Damn this was such a good analysis and compilation. I've been a victim of crowd mobbing and can attest to immoral collectivism.

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.

What software do you use to make these?

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?

Thank you

I came here because I was reading a book ``trading for a living`` in which this book was recommended.

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep

Thank You

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.

Wow, I never knew this guy even him was ahead of his time like all his contemporaries

Oh wow. My social psychology "teacher" never talked about this guy.

For those who have the ears to hear...

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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

This can be personified by agent smiths in the matrix who aim to crush neo who represents the individual

Good thing I'm antisocial

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

What is the crowd going to do now?

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. 🙂

Timely.

i want names of great books like the nature of crowds.

le bon got one thing right: duran duran :)

This is why you can't get through to people during Rona-19.

Solitude is peace.

Can you make a video on Fascism?

‘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…’

Global Warming !!!

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?

If Le Bon had witnessed the chaos at Evergreen three years ago & what resulted from it, he would've had a field day....

Does rent control count?

So, what is the charismatic leader that can tap into this energy? Danton, Wilkes, Lenin.