The crowd
by Gustave Le Bon · first published 1977
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…Shadows: The Psychology of Control". Sure, it sounds like it'd be a conspiracy theory video, but it's far from it, listed all sources, and recommended books which were discussed. Those books being: The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon, Crystallizing Public Opinion, and Propaganda by Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew. That video on youtube really changed the way I view the world, especially media and "groups"…
on “Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations” ↗Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd is pretty comic when things like this happen. Can find things straight out of the headlines but from 1895.
on “FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried cashed out $300M during funding spree” ↗…and with the overall disappointment I find place to suit myself better in the future. And I don't plan to go a super long way with the majority anyway. This book is strongly recommended to read: "The Crowd" written by Gustave Le Bon. Tiktok swipers don't need to bother.
Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd is another good reference.
on “A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s” ↗…internal consistent narrative/mental state and this happens without them realizing it (subliminally), and its been known for quite a long time going all the way back to the 1800s with Gustave Le Bon's The Crowd.
on “RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines” ↗