🎩📚 Ah, the classic tome on crowd psychology, written back when "delusion" was just a synonym for "fun weekend." 🤪 It's like Mackay knew that centuries later, we'd still be gluing our eyes to screens, reading about how irrational we all are—oh, the irony! 😂
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 #crowdpsychology #irony #delusion #socialmedia #classicreads #humanbehavior #HackerNews #ngated
#crowdpsychology — Public Fediverse posts
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Crowd psychology meets behavioral economics, and the result isn’t Jekyll becoming Hyde—it’s Hyde on a megaphone.
Le Bon argued that rational individuals lose their reason in a crowd. But modern behavioral science shows the “rational individual” never existed in the first place.
#BehavioralEconomics #Econ #Economics #CrowdPsychology #Kahneman #Ariely #Blog #Reason #MassPsychology #Groupthink #Philosophy #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Crowds #Madness #MentalHealth #Crazy #Science #Enlightenment
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Crowd madness drives crypto’s rise. FOMO sucks in the masses, hyped by influencers on Elon's X. While we’re distracted by Trump’s latest outburst, this herd mentality blinds us to the cliff ahead. Panic will trigger a sell-off, and WILL be brutal. #CrowdPsychology
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The feed doesn’t forget.
But it doesn’t remember responsibly either.A million people share the outrage.
No one stays to hold the weight.🎥 Crowd Guilt / No Guilt — the new short film of The Rule of Nobody: https://youtu.be/fvJ0I7Dor6o
✍️ Companion essay: Crowds Without Conscience — on Jung, cancel culture, and the quiet erosion of moral selfhood.
👉 https://redefine.pt/2025/08/01/crowds-without-conscience/#CarlJung #CrowdPsychology #CancelCulture #CollectiveResponsibility #TheRuleOfNobody #DigitalEthics #MoralAgency
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Concert psychology is wild: you literally lose individual identity and sync with thousands of other brains during powerful musical moments.
Taylor Swift creates "commoditized community" through purchased belonging.
Kendrick Lamar amplifies existing cultural identity.Both trigger deindividuation, emotional contagion, and collective effervescence.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4n6S92C