书评

The Crowed, written by French psychologist and sociologist Gustave Le Bon, is often regarded as the founding work of group psychology. The focus of this book is on the dangers of the "group mentality" and the importance of keeping your head in a group. Another particularly common feature of the "group mentality" in real life is the circles in which we are often "mixed up" without realizing it. For example, in the case of cyber violence, some people will blindly follow one side and become the bad keyboard warrior who insults someone. A group really can change a person, it may give us courage, teach us how to resist the temptation, but groups tend to be the easiest to subjugate the individual.All individuals in the group are pale, because we cannot change a group consciousness. After reading this book, I found that groups are ignorant, easy to be led by the leader. But we are part of the group. We're being led around without even knowing it. Just as the saying goes,the spectators see the chess game better than the players. Don't make judgements based on snippets of information In real life. What we know may not be true, and our capricious actions may cause irreparable harm to others. At the same time, even if we see the facts, do not judge, because we are not players. "If you are not a player, don't talk about right and wrong." A person cannot have independent thoughts.It is a terrible thing. But this does not mean that individuals should be separated from the group, after all, there is no pure personal practice. It is necessary to adapt to the environment you are in, not simply to become a group-driven machine, but to strive to improve yourself as an independent and free-thinking individual. "Independent spirit, free mind" is for research and scholarship, but I think the same value orientation also applies to the individual pursuit of distinguishing oneself from the savage group, not to be part of the motley crew.