I'm still digesting the dough, but I'll give birth to something else!

 

There are no others. There is only us.

A short film exploring the power of crowds.

Much has been written about the power of the masses and the blindness of the masses. So all of a sudden, I remember Noam Chomsky and so many others before, Zygmunt Baumann, before, Yuvall Noah Harari, but above all who and what will come after him, and how the world will continue to impact on the subject, in such a way that the same subject can impact in the future, so that one can really emphasize and unite the words progress and humanity. Or the derivations that will arise from both words. Several psychologists and sociologists have dedicated themselves to analyzing the individual and social subject, to predicting behaviors and to predicting who will be the man who will truly inhabit this planet and what forms of life we will find that will alter the course of this great house of ours.

Le Bon explains to us in the first place the difference between masses and multitude, that the subject in the midst of the crowd becomes more influenced by the external, then by circumstances and other subjects, becoming less conscious of themselves, he also says that the mass is deprived of intelligence and creativity, seeing itself clouded by emotions only, which become irrational and contagious; First of all, dangerous, I would add. And Gustave Le Bon came to this conclusion, it should be noted, in 1895. Through his Psychology of Crowds. Horkheimer and Adorno, on the other hand, a century later, in 1985, via the "Dialectic of Enlightenment", refer to the mass as a cultural reflection of the society in which it is evaluated, as if it were a mirror, contextualizing it in a circumstance of "late capitalism", promoting a passive and conformist public, incapable of exercising critical thinking and actively participating in the political sphere. arguing further (and we can still guarantee that so it is, in today's society of 2024) that popular culture is a form of propaganda, the purpose of which is to seek the consent of the masses. If Sigmund Freud in 1921, in his "Psychology of the Masses and Analysis of the Self" postulated that the mass represents nothing more and nothing less than the identification, as well as the fusion of the self with the other, Emerging as the fulfillment of an unconscious desire to belong unconsciously to a group and, in finding this identification with others, finding their own identity that comes from or emerges from this contact with the context in question, then this amorphous, conformist mass seeks, first of all, an element whose autonomy and non-conformity stand out. lead and be able to guide the potential born of this irrational phenomenon, We return to the danger of the same power. The mass is naturally an "attack" on democracy and free thought, since it leads to strategies emerging from it, propaganda and the manipulation of power. Paulo Freire, in 1974, via the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, describes to us that the current system (the dominant social classes) seeks in this Oppression and in its sustenance, to perpetuate the domination of Power, Adding that when there is a rupture in the social agreements, which bring noise by introducing the disunity of the masses, the alienated individual seems urgent and necessary to create abstractions in order to justify his inferior position. In the creation of the so-called pseudo-rational abstractions, the subject recognized the blindfolds and would revolt against this same oppression, freeing him from the "blindness" maintained at his pleasure by the dominants of the social classes in prominence.

In what way, within this amorphous, conformist and irrational "mass" as a whole, would a leader stand out? By orality, by his discourse, capable of influencing the whole, in the use of a language devoid of rationality, favoring anachronistic retrogression (an escape from the ideal progress of humanity), which the author calls archaic regression, whose consequences are based on the "abduction of the personality", by crushing the mass to members of crowds or masses. Le Bon, on the other hand, in 1895, distinguished A marked difference between mass and crowd, saying that the crowd maintains critical thinking and individuality, and the mass does not. And Freud went even further, saying that in addition to the mass being influential, being credulous, it emphasizes uncriticism and improbability, as well as Le Bon in 1895 had already emphasized that the fixed orientation of the ideas and feelings that compose it, envisions the erasure of the personality of the subjects, and depending on the impulses that lead them, whether noble or cruel, heroic or cowardly, they are so determinant and imperious (rigid) that no personal interest, not even that of self-preservation, is asserted. That the subject of the masses does not reason, is violent, obviously not following his own ideas.

From all of these, mostly psychologists and sociologists, from the nineteenth century to the present day, through Kurt Durkheim and Noam Chomsky, we already have enough data to predict the future of civilizations and we have seen all the altercations that lead us to the dangerous phenomenon of the masses. If we go back in time, the Portuguese monarchy itself, at the time of its overthrow, had several influences, such as the Republican Party, Freemasonry, Carbonara, Faced with the military, civilians of the middle class (petty bourgeoisie and working class) and with external and internal factors adjacent to the country, a system that was supposed to be at the base of enormous setbacks and inequalities was broken. The secularization of the state (which irritates the parrot of the nation with being Catholic, but it is he, not the state where I live, that is secular) is not a recent thing, but localized between 1910 and 1926, With the new Portuguese Constitution, it was urgent to separate the powers of the State and the Church, and in this matter, divorce itself was legalized, as well as the legitimacy of spouses and equality for legitimate and illegitimate children, putting an end to the so-called bastards and children of unknown parents, among other things. The dynamo or ignition originated in suitable and rational heads, not in mass phenomena. Because if the peace of the nations depended on it, the extinction of the human race on this planet would have taken place long ago. I've been rereading Yuvall Noah Harari (from the future of the generation of useless people - how pessimistic), thanks to artificial intelligence, Zygmunt Baumann (I'm a fan of his work) and others like that. I tell you that there is no worse opium than the Church and Fascism. And that all this takes place in large groups! Tired of swallowing them and much more of scribbling about them! I'm going to pick poppies that I babysitter today for my peach!