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“This power is due to the fact that the repeated statement is embedded in the long run in those profound regions of our unconscious selves in which the motives of our actions are forged.”

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

This book delves into the collective psychology of groups, analyzing the dynamics that drive crowd behavior and the influence of the crowd on individual thought and action. more

Author

Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841 - December 13, 1931) was a French social psychologist, considered one of the pioneers in the field of social psychology. His research focused on the psychology of crowds and collective behavior, and his book 'The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind' had a profound impact on the development of social psychology. more

“The idea that human nature is perfectible, that under which modernity and the technological project is founded, is completely unbelievable now. Everyone in the sciences now agrees that human nature is fundamentally flawed and animalistic. Even all the socialists and the scientists at this point agree that half of human nature is genetic. This is indirect opposition even to what people believed 10 years ago, that all humans are equal, blank slates who are motivated by social engineering.”

Psychology Society Human Nature Sociology Modernity

Author:Whatifalthist

“No light thing is it, to come back from death, For, in good sooth, the gods of nether gloom Are quick to seize but late and loth to free!”

Life God Death Freedom Gods

Book:The Persians

Source: The Persians

“Endurance and Maturing go hand-in-hand, more you endure, more you mature.”

Life Human Nature Maturity Endurance

Book:The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“The most important difference between men and women is that men get benefit from risk, and women don't. Men wage war, hunt, go on trading expeditions; while women are weighed down firstly by child-bearing and are also just phisically weaker. In game theory terms this creates very different incentives for men is the formation of systems in which men can excel through doing stuff to make themselves more attractive as mates. To women is to mitigate risk as much as humanly possible.”