trollcatman wrote:
YippySkippy wrote:
As a historian, I can't recall any other time in history when a group like ISIS existed. A group that hates everyone, wants to kill everyone, and doesn't care whether they survive or not. Their behavior is insane, and crazy people are coming from all over to join them. It reminds me of lemmings. I wonder whether there is some circumstance or set of circumstances occurring in the world that is pushing people towards self-destruction. Is it politics, culture, the media, over-population, global warming, financial inequality, or what? It's too simple just to blame everything on religion - religion has been around for hundreds of years, yet this mass insanity is a new phenomenon.
I think it is partly religion, and parly hooliganism. Modern society is extremely boring for young men. Same reason why people pick fights with police, they are bored out of their mind. Hooligans also know what they are doing is going nowhere, yet they still pick fights with other hooligans or with police. I get a massive kick out of seeing riots on tv (but I'm smart enough to do the decent thing, I know it is wrong).
Remember the riots in England a few years ago? Made no sense, people were starting fires, looting stores, fighting the riot police, and people kept joining just for kicks. Something similar happened in the Netherlands in Germany, people invited each other via social media and they do stupid things like breaking a window and stealing a can of soup worth 1 euro as seen on the security cameras.
Oh, this is not a historical parrallel to ISIS, but to hooliganism: in Constantinople they used to have chariot races, and I think they had three different teams, and they had riots on this, and it even divided politicians.
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Gustave Le Bon (French: [lə bɔ̃]; 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, anthropologist, inventor, and amateur physicist. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. His writings incorporate theories of national traits, racial and male superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology.
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George Lachmann Mosse, former History professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison has claimed that fascist theories of leadership that emerged during the 1920s owed much to Le Bon's theories of crowd psychology. Adolf Hitler is known to have read The Crowd[3] and in his Mein Kampf he drew largely on the propaganda techniques proposed by Le Bon.[4] Benito Mussolini also made a careful study of Le Bon's crowd psychology work, frequently rereading the book.[5]
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Le Bon believed that modern life was increasingly characterized by crowd assemblages. In La psychologie des foules (1895; The Crowd), his most popular work, he argued that the conscious personality of the individual in a crowd is submerged and that the collective crowd mind dominates; crowd behaviour is unanimous, emotional, and intellectually weak.
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