Text | Qinghe Zhibenshe, title map: Visual China
The group is a torrent of the world.
They follow suit, blindness, anxiety, irritability, fanaticism, indulgence, refusal to think and indulge violence, lack of independent consciousness and speculative ability, lost in the pursuit of “collective soul”, stealing private interests in the pursuit of public interest (“Group Psychology”, Gustav Le Pen).
The fate is that “the savvy orator often uses these features in his speeches to the group.”
They often use the name of “public interest” to use private ambition and purpose. The intellectual formula they provide to the group is often the state, the leader, the will, the violence and the supremacy of power, and the “strength through unity” (the fascist’s most primitive slogan) /span>.
They also pretend to be in the name of freedom, in the square with extremely exaggerated and rendered performances, screaming, confusing, and smashing the fish. During the French Revolution, Gloria’s leader, Mrs. Roland, was also sent to the guillotine. Before she left, she said the words that shocked the world: “Freedom, the sins of the world, and the name of the falsehood” (梁启超译).
Marx wrote in the “French Class Struggle from 1848 to 1850” that they “can make heroic achievements and fanatical self-sacrifice, and can do the most despicable robbery and the most embarrassing body.” Got a role.”
A hundred years ago, Le Pen summarized European modern fanatical, disorderly, irrational movements and people as “groups” and lamented: “The behavior of the group is more susceptible to the influence of the bone marrow than the brain.”
After that, this torrent has intensified, eventually brewing an unprecedented catastrophe in human history and a plague of thought that pervades half of the earth.
In history, the sullenness of people on the square and the sneak peek of people behind the square reflect the most ignorant and dark side of mankind.
The saying goes, “The sky is not born to Newton, and the age is like a long night.”