The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Audiobook (Free)

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 -1931) was a People from france polymath who wrote on anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine and physics. He’s most widely known for his 1895 work ‘The Crowd: A REPORT of the Popular Mind’, which is considered a seminal work of masses psychology. In the publication, Le Bon identifies the primary characteristics of masses mindset as impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the lack of crucial judgement, as well as the exaggeration of emotions. Le Bon promises that an specific immersed for some amount of time in a audience soon discovers himself in a special psychological state, which resembles the state when a hypnotized individual finds himself under the influence of the hypnotizer. Among Le Bon’s troubling insights is a man descends many rungs in the ladder of civilisation by the mere reality that he forms section of an organised crowd.