It is time, it is past time, to pull out our copies of Gustave Le Bon’s “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”. Le Bon argued that a psychological crowd can be created at times, and that its nature was anything but the nature of a rational person. The crowd creation could occur even among dispersed individuals if they were subjected to common crowd-creating influences or stimuli. The demonstrations in the streets of America have been called “protests”. That can’t be taken for granted as an accurate description of what they are. A thinking person does not accept media … Continue reading Crowd Behavior