The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Gelesen von Oxenhandler
Gustave Le Bon
(4,297 Sterne; 37 Bewertungen)
"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, an elevated degree of culture — all of them conditions that crowds, left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of realising. In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall." - Gustave Le Bon, from Introduction (5 hr 52 min)
Chapters
General Characteristics of Crowds— Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity
20:25
Read by Oxenhandler
Bewertungen
Reader has good potential, but...
Praxia
(3 Sterne)
He needs to slow down, and learn to read with good phrasing, rhythm, inflection and cadence. Comes across as a novice reading here. Honestly though, I feel this reader has really great potential. Keep improving.
Extraordinary book, less-than-extraordinary reader.
Cliff Pinchon
(4 Sterne)
The book is brilliant and depressing; the reader sounds like an executioner.
Vinton Omaleki
(5 Sterne)
Oxenhandler did an excellent job of reading this controversial but relevant text.
Very outdated perspective and practices, still used today🙄😬🤔
(3 Sterne)