1, as soon as people arrive in the group, the IQ is seriously reduced, in order to get recognition, individuals are willing to abandon right and wrong, and use IQ to exchange for the sense of belonging that makes people feel safe.
2) We always have the illusion that our feelings come from within ourselves.
3, the group will only do two things - the icing on the cake or the fall of the well.
4) Once an individual becomes a member of a group, he will no longer be held responsible for what he does, and everyone will reveal his or her unconstrained side. What the group pursues and believes in has never been truth and reason, but blind obedience, cruelty, paranoia and fanaticism, knowing only simple and extreme feelings.
5) We think we are rational, and we think that our every move is justified. But in fact, the vast majority of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives that we simply cannot understand on our own.
6, the so-called faith, it can make a person become completely enslaved by their dreams.
7. In the eternal conflict with reason, feelings have never lost their hands.
8) Sometimes something that is not true contains more truth than something that is real.
9, the masses have not really thirsted for the truth, in the face of those unpalatable evidence, they will turn a deaf ear... Whoever can provide them with illusions can easily become their masters; those who disillusion them will become their victims.
10. Quantity is justice.
11. Mastering the art of influencing the imagination of the masses also mastered the art of dominating them.
12. Without tradition, there can be no civilization; without the slow elimination of tradition, there can be no progress.
13 The isolated individual is well aware that when he is alone, he cannot burn a palace or loot a shop, and even if he is tempted to do so, he can easily resist this temptation. But when he becomes a member of the group, he realizes that numbers give him the power that is enough to give rise to the idea of killing and plundering, and he will immediately succumb to this temptation. Unexpected obstacles are violently destroyed. The human organism is indeed capable of generating a great deal of fanatical passion, so it can be said that the normal state of formation of groups with hindered wishes is this state of indignation.
14 The phenomena that can be felt can be compared to waves, the appearance of chaos in the depths of the ocean that we know nothing about.
15. The heroes who were supported by the masses yesterday will be insulted today if they fail. Of course, the higher the reputation, the stronger the reaction. In this case, the masses will regard the hero of the end as their own kind, and retaliate for bowing to a no longer existing authority.
16 Groups are always intellectually inferior to isolated individuals, but from the point of view of feelings and the actions they inspire, groups can perform better or worse than individuals, depending on the circumstances. Everything depends on the nature of the hints accepted by the group.
17, the group because of the exaggeration of their feelings, so it will only be moved by extreme feelings. Orators who want to move the crowd must speak out and take a vow. Exaggeration, convincing, repetition, absolutely no reasoning for anything – these are the usual methods of argumentation used by orators at public gatherings.
18 Unforgettable historical events are only the tangible consequences of invisible changes in human thought.
19) Isolated individuals have the ability to control their own reactive behavior, while groups do not.
20) Arbitrariness and paranoia are common to all types of groups.
21 What affects the imagination of the people is not the facts themselves, but the way they occur and attract attention.
22. The group always bows to the powerful, but is rarely moved by benevolence and charity! In their view, benevolence and benevolence are only synonymous with weakness and deception.
23, the public has no ability to discern, so it is impossible to judge the truth or falsity of things, and many views that cannot withstand scrutiny can be easily universally agreed!
24, the blind obedience of the group consciousness will drown the rationality of the individual, once the individual into the group, its original independent rationality will be drowned by the group's ignorance and madness.
25 In the long run, repeated statements enter the deeper regions of our unconscious self, where our motivations for action are formed. At some point, we will forget who is the author of the claim that is constantly being repeated, and we will eventually believe in it.
26 The individuals in the group are the sands of the sand, and the wind can stir them at will.
27, whether the feelings expressed by the group are good or bad, their outstanding feature is extremely simple and exaggerated.
28 But the important quality of any leader who can accomplish great things is not erudition, but must have a strong and enduring willpower, which is an extremely rare, extremely powerful quality, which is enough to conquer everything.
29 After forming a group, due to the large number of people, the individual will have an illusion, feeling that his strength is infinite and invincible, as if nothing cannot be done.
30 When a person is integrated into society, he loses himself.
31. As a last resort, we may still be willing to accept all the ills of traditional education, because although it will only cultivate some people who have been abandoned by society and who are dissatisfied, at the very least, the superficial mastery of redundant knowledge, the perfect recitation of piles of textbooks, may improve the level of intelligence. But in fact does it really improve intelligence? No way! In life, judgment, experience, initiative, and personality are the conditions for success, and these are not what books can give. Books are useful dictionaries to look up, but if you keep these lengthy entries in your head, it's useless.
32 When the moral forces on which civilization is formed lose their effectiveness, its final disintegration is always done by unconscious and barbaric groups.
(33) All political, theological or social creeds, if they are to take root among the masses, must take the form of religion—a form capable of excluding dangerous discussions.
34 What the group spirit needs most is not freedom but obedience. They are so willing to obey the will of others that whenever someone claims to be their master, they instinctively obey him.
35 Although they did or almost did it in the two hours of that day, after a month they no longer possessed it. They cannot pass the exam again. They keep losing a lot of knowledge that is too heavy in their minds, and there is no new knowledge to fill. Their intellectual vitality began to decline, and their talents for growth dried up, when a fully developed man was born, but by this time he was already exhausted. Married to live a stable life, caught in a certain cycle, and repeating it endlessly; he shuts himself off in narrow work, dutifully, nothing more. They eventually became mediocre.
36 Once an individual is integrated into the group, his personality will be annihilated, and the group's thoughts will occupy an absolute dominant position, while at the same time, the behavior of the group will also show the characteristics of exclusion and dissent, extremism, emotion, and low INTELLIGENCE. This, in turn, has a devastating impact on society.
37 The superposition of groups is only the superposition of stupidity, and true wisdom is drowned by the torrent of stupidity.
38 People often talk about the popular theater, which only performs depressing plays, and after the show, the actor who plays the traitor must be protected from being beaten by the audience. The crime he committed, of course, was imagined and aroused great anger among the masses. I think this is one of the most significant manifestations of the mental state of the group, which clearly shows how easy it is to give them any hints. For them, false and true work almost equally. They clearly show a tendency to distinguish between true and false.
39 The group may always be unconscious, but this unconscious itself may be one of the secrets of its power. In nature, creatures that obey instincts absolutely behave in such a way that we cannot believe it. Reason is something that human beings have only recently had, and it is too imperfect to reveal to us the laws of the unconscious, let alone replace it. The unconscious is a large part of our behavior, but the proportion of reason is very small. The unconscious is still at work as an unknown force.
40 At some point we will not remember who the person who keeps repeating the proposition is, and we will eventually believe in it, and that advertising can have a surprising power, and that's why.
41, the generation of fame is related to a number of factors, and success is always the most important one.
42 What plays a greater role in determining people's historical status is not their "true" appearance, but the understanding and feelings of future generations about them.
43, the group will make everyone's mistakes in it narrow, while allowing everyone's malice to be infinitely magnified.
44. As soon as the sense of responsibility that binds personal behavior disappears, people will do whatever they want and act arbitrarily.
45 The unconscious behavior of the group replaces the conscious behavior of the individual, which is one of the most prominent characteristics of the modern era.
46 The five signs of idolatry: First, idols are always above believers and in a position of supremacy, which plays a decisive role. Second, believers always blindly obey the commands of their idols. Third, believers are incapable and unwilling to discuss the creeds prescribed by idols. Fourth, believers have a fanatical desire to spread the idol creed. Fifth, believers tend to see anyone who does not accept them as an enemy. When a group conforms to Article 1, its form is equated with religion, and this sentiment becomes religious belief. For the group, perhaps the most irrational is the most reasonable choice.
47 The masses are increasingly obliterated by mass culture, which regards mediocrity and vulgarity as the most valuable thing.
48, so don't easily become a member of the collective, so it is easy to be used by people with ulterior motives, even if you think that you are just following along, in fact, you have become an accomplice.
49 The exaggerated tendencies of the group act only on feelings and have no effect on intelligence.
50, the group is not good at reasoning, but eager to act.