Jag vill återigen slå ett slag för den briljande Gustave Le Bon och hans bok ”
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” från 1895. Läs den. Ni är närmast garanterade att få en mer skeptisk syn på alla företeelser som baseras på massan. Inklusive demokrati förstås.
Jag bjuder på några träffsäkra citat från boken.
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The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
”The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.”
”Crowds, being incapable both of reflection and of reasoning, are devoid of the notion of improbability; and it is to be noted that in a general way it is the most improbable things that are the most striking.”
”Affirmation pure and simple, kept free of all reasoning and all proof, is one of the surest means of making an idea enter the mind of crowds.”
https://archive.org/details/the-crow...-1895/mode/1up
