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The Crowd/Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Gustave Le Bon, Charles Mackay
ahmed92kira's review against another edition
5.0
كتاب مهم يحتاج كل شخص ان يقرأه على الاقل مرة واحد في حياته
msewidan's review against another edition
4.0
عاجبنى الكتاب جدا
بس مختلف معاه ف ان الجماهير غبية انا شايف ان الجماهير مش غبية ولا حاجة بس الجماهير مبتثورش لحقها الا عند الشدة
بس مختلف معاه ف ان الجماهير غبية انا شايف ان الجماهير مش غبية ولا حاجة بس الجماهير مبتثورش لحقها الا عند الشدة
bassmh's review against another edition
2.0
Outdated and repetitive. Adds nothing to current knowledge.
noadifferentchad's review against another edition
2.0
The author’s use of sexism and racism has been pointed out in other reviews - he has a peculiar dislike of Latin influence. But it does reveal some hypocrisy in that, like most people who invoke these frameworks, he uses them to galvanize the reader much like various charlatans galvanize crowds for their own ends - the very subject at which the author takes aim.
Although his polemic meanders and repeats itself, there is gold here, despite having to sift through muddy waters to find it, which would suggest there is even more to be mined by someone with more rigor, less zeal.
After all, it’s a curious idea that people joining in common cause would unwittingly form a new organism that is at once ‘of them’ and distinct ‘from them’. And that this larger, more powerful organism would have survival instincts of its own compelling it to absorb the energy of its constituents and harness that energy for different intentions - to essentially program all the people it comprises into little reproductive agents of itself, like a virus would do.
One of my favorite quotes:
“Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardour of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.”
And we’re all cultists now.
Although his polemic meanders and repeats itself, there is gold here, despite having to sift through muddy waters to find it, which would suggest there is even more to be mined by someone with more rigor, less zeal.
After all, it’s a curious idea that people joining in common cause would unwittingly form a new organism that is at once ‘of them’ and distinct ‘from them’. And that this larger, more powerful organism would have survival instincts of its own compelling it to absorb the energy of its constituents and harness that energy for different intentions - to essentially program all the people it comprises into little reproductive agents of itself, like a virus would do.
One of my favorite quotes:
“Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardour of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.”
And we’re all cultists now.
beytwice's review against another edition
3.0
An interesting argument Le Bon presents, made far more interesting when its historical context is applied and considered. Ideas that are now blatantly dated are fun to pick apart, views on crowd mentality then as compared to now clearly differing. An eye-opening read on 19th century views and opinions as opposed to their present contrast.
urtencija's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
3.75
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petalat's review against another edition
5.0
وجدت الكتاب صدفةً في معرض الرياض للكتاب، شدّني العنوان جداً، عندما علمت عما يتحدث التقطته بدون تردد. كُتب في القرن الثامن عشر لذا أردت أن أرى كيف كانت الأوضاع في ذلك الوقت، بدأت أقرأ و لم يتوقف الكتاب في مفاجئتي بأن كل ما كُتب في ذلك الوقت لا يختلف كثيراً عما نحن عليه الآن (الشعوب العربية، بوجه أخص الشعب السعودي). لا أخفي عليكم أُحبطت كثيراً. كم ألف عامٍ نحتاج؟؟ اتضحت لي الكثير من الأمور، لم الجمهور على ما هو عليه؟ اتُحاجهم بالعقل والمنطق؟ كيف تستطيع التحكم بهم؟ كثير من الأسئلة سيجيب عليها غوستاف بإسهاب.