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April 19, 2021
THE WASHINGTON POST – By eerie coincidence, I began reading William J Bernstein’s
The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups in early January and was deep into it on January 6. I kept reading in the days that followed the unprecedented insurrection at the Capitol, putting the book aside occasionally to look at the scores of videos taken by participants before and during the rioting. ProPublica, the investigative news site, acquired more than 500 of these videos and assembled them into a compelling new kind
of documentary.
The people in these clips fit with what Bernstein describes as victims of delusions. In this instance they were victims of our deluder in chief, who concocted false tales of election fraud that he repeated again and again to convince his followers that Joe Biden had stolen the 2020 election. At a rally on January 6, President Donald Trump urged the crowd to march on the Capitol, “show strength” and “stop the steal”. At his b
Of crowds and irrational behaviour
April 18, 2021
Title: The Delusions of Crowds: Why people go mad in groups Author: William J Bernstein Publisher: Black Cat Price: ₹2,526
Title: The Delusions of Crowds: Why people go mad in groups Author: William J Bernstein Publisher: Black Cat Price: ₹2,526×
The book unravels how people rationalise facts to fit them into their perceptions
Neuroscientists have uncovered the physiological basis for two of the most fundamental responses driving human behaviour, especially when it comes to behavioural economics: greed and fear. These are the two impulses which drive money and the markets, and even religion.
According to science, the limbic system which divides the brain into the right and left hemispheres gets fired by outside stimuli that get transferred through the temples on the forehead and behind the eyes.
It was amazing how quickly it happened. For almost five years â from Donald Trumpâs rise in the 2016 Republican primaries to the Jan. 6 insurrection following his defeat â the lurid spectacle of our national politics sucked up most of the countryâs cultural energy. Almost every conversation I had during that time began with mutual expressions of outrage and incredulity about whatever was happening in the hourly news cycle.
And then it was over. Trumpâs cultural power evanesced as quickly as his political power did. Now everyone except those running in Republican primaries can ignore him. National politics didnât exactly become boring â Joe Bidenâs administration is proving transformative â but it no longer demanded most peopleâs minute-by-minute attention. That left room for a new national obsession, especially once the vaccine rollout picked up and the end of Americaâs pandemic nightmare appeared in sight.
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It was amazing how quickly it happened. For almost five years from Donald Trump’s rise in the 2016 Republican primaries to the Jan. 6 insurrection following his defeat the lurid spectacle of our national politics sucked up most of the country’s cultural energy. Almost every conversation I had during that time began with mutual expressions of outrage and incredulity about whatever was happening in the hourly news cycle.
And then it was over. Trump’s cultural power evanesced as quickly as his political power did. Now everyone except those running in Republican primaries can ignore him. National politics didn’t exactly become boring Joe Biden’s administration is proving transformative but it no longer demanded most people’s minute-by-minute attention. That left room for a new national obsession, especially once the vaccine rollout picked up and the end of America’s pandemic nightmare appeared in sight.