I made pasta today.
I got flour and egg everywhere but it tastes good.
I've been reading The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
Apparently Hitler read this.
It's about the mentality of crowds and how individuals' characters change into a mass 'body'.
People lose all sense of logic and reason when in a crowd and if you can direct them, which isn't too hard, you can make the mass do what you want.
Whether that be for good or bad.
The crowd can become a murderer or a martyr.
"An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will."
Wonderful.
He's a complete dick though, a real sexist pig, but was a doctor.
He has the impression that children and women are more impressionable than men and that if a child has to give evidence to a case (say in court) you might as well toss a coin rather than take their word.
But interesting non the less.
It's strange looking at how the educated mind and the ignorant one become the same person and all sense of logic is overridden when the individuals form a group.
There is a unity in a crowd which transcends race, sex, age and class and forms a characteristic of being very suggestible and easily led.
The crowd will pursue an ideal, whether that be morally right or not after the crowd it seems it becomes something subjective to each member, each individual, as to how they then feel. Resentment, guilt, happiness, etc.
Good stuff.
Time for a cup of tea.
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