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[Mary Su @Marysuww]

@Z__McCarthy It perplexed me as well. I always thought of education as a means for people to learn to be critical and not just blindly follow the masses. Or does Le Bon thinks that education itself is a form of crowd think?

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

@IggyIm22 That happens to me as well! But then I also wonder to what extent is that a crowd thinking or just an individual choice to compromise so I can hang out w/ friends. (Or it could be I’m unwilling to admit that I’m thinking with the crowd…)

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

What Le Bon says about repetitive experience for every generation reminds me of this video… This is incredibly sad. #Shorts https://t.co/i0DMs4lorC via @YouTube

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

Le Bon says “a people is an organism created by the past, and like every other organism, it can only be modified by slow hereditary accumulations.” I feel like from Shakespeare to Vico to Arnold and now Le Bon, the authors we read are becoming kore and more like constructivist.

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

@EvahernandezBC LMAO. I’m closely following a subreddit these days and the posts on it definitely look like a “crowd” or some sort of rally.

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

@PVMHardClass I like the thought that social media is a psychological crowd. It seems like ppl online are always more extreme, suggestible, and to some extent illogical…

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

@hardclass2020 Why did so many people just started to think about the unconsciousness in the late 1800s though? Was there some significant historical event that pushed the study of unconscious psychology?

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

Shocking how “The Crowd” was written in the late 1800s but is still relevant/ applicable today.

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

How crowds think according to Le Bon

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

@hardclass2020 Why am I sending some strong Max Weber here?

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

Is it just me or does anyone else also find Arnold’s analysis on class using Aristotle’s idea of virtue too much of a stretch? Middle class is the mean(virtue); aristocracy and working class are two extremes (vices)?

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

@deakinbooks Machinery lurking in the background

[Mary Su @Marysuww]

Just finished chapter one of Arnold. Seems like there’s a lot- culture, religion, Middle-class liberalism, sweetness, etc. My main take away from the chapter, despite being overwhelmed, was that Arnold was a helpless perfectionist who utterly hated machinery. @hardclass2020