16 April 2013
Sun: 27' Aries Moon: 14' Cancer
Psychologists and sociologists have been trying for decades to understand "the mob mentality." Usually they study it in negative terms: preventing riots and so forth, but occasionally it gets applied to wider social movements. It does not make sense, how one can get a handful, dozens, hundreds, millions, a whole nation, behind a concept that none would consider on an individual basis - and yet it can be done. History has borne out the devastating consequences of the misuse of this power. We see it daily in the insanity of the badly misnamed American "Tea Party," although to be fair there is also a good dose of schitzophrenia there that should be addressed in another post. And yet, the problem of the "mob mind" might well be best understood as both elementary and elemental.
Sun: 27' Aries Moon: 14' Cancer
Psychologists and sociologists have been trying for decades to understand "the mob mentality." Usually they study it in negative terms: preventing riots and so forth, but occasionally it gets applied to wider social movements. It does not make sense, how one can get a handful, dozens, hundreds, millions, a whole nation, behind a concept that none would consider on an individual basis - and yet it can be done. History has borne out the devastating consequences of the misuse of this power. We see it daily in the insanity of the badly misnamed American "Tea Party," although to be fair there is also a good dose of schitzophrenia there that should be addressed in another post. And yet, the problem of the "mob mind" might well be best understood as both elementary and elemental.
