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I'm reading a book called The Crowd published in 1896 written by a Frenchman, Gustave Le Bon. It may be the earliest study of mob psychology and it is very interesting and revealing. Le Bon asserts that certain crowds essentially abandon individual thinking for the collective mind which, when you think about it, is self-evident. He puts it this way:
Under certain given circumstances, and only under those circumstances, an agglomeration of men presents new characteristics very different from those of the individuals composing it. The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one and the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly defined characteristics. The gathering has thus become what, in the absence of a better expression, I will call an organised crowd, or, if the term is considered preferable, a psychological crowd. It forms a single being, and is subjected to the law of the mental unity of crowds.
