Boselli 1John Boselli

Dr. Doggett

English 324

2 September 2013

Le Bons The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

When science redefines the way we understand our own human narrative on a biological level, as it did during the late nineteenth century in Western Europe, the idea of a socially exclusive revolution becomes impossible, for the masses use their newfound solidarity to gain social control. This crowd, unlike their upper and middle class opposition, has a passion for creative destruction and a belief in an ancient, unifying structuralism that undermines bourgeois government and class strata; privileged classes typically turn to religion or humanism when threatened, stressing mans rationality and not his primitivism. Each shift is driven by a different doctrine, one that is not based on pure equality, which is not appealing by nature. While the masses are the new centurys decomposers, their generational rule creates its own demise, for todays barbarians are tomorrows bourgeoisie.