《乌合之众》（The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind）
最近老有人引用《乌合之众》。这本书我几年前看过一次，内容都不怎么记得了，打算最近再看一遍，看完写个不成熟的小解读。不过我发现，现在的人看书其实也不在乎解读不解读的，都是只看金句，内容看不懂没关系，只要能引用其中一段文字发在朋友圈里吓唬人就行。
The crowd refers to 'populism', which is distinct against 'the elite' where the writer Le Bon represented.
（以下摘自维基百科：）
In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgement of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of sentiments, and others..." Le Bon claimed that "an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd soon finds himself – either in consequence of magnetic influence given out by the crowd or from some other cause of which we are ignorant – in a special state, which much resembles the state of fascination in which the hypnotized individual finds himself in the hands of the hypnotizer."
划重点：
群体的几大特征：
1、impulsiveness：冲动、盲目、莽撞、不计后果（见识短）；
2、irritability：暴躁、易怒（一点就着）；
3、incapacity to reason：没有判断能力、缺乏理性（智商不够）；
4、the absence of judgement of the critical spirit：缺乏批判精神的判断力(听不得反调)；
5、the exaggeration of sentiments：夸大情绪（总是很激动）。
6、其他
怎么说呢，还挺有道理的，欢迎对号入座。
虽然我对这本书印象不深，但我有个联想印象非常深。在看这本书的时候，我不止一次地联想到莫言的《生死疲劳》里的蓝脸。《生死疲劳》差不多是十年前读的，里面的情节我也忘差不多了，但唯独忘不了蓝脸这个人物。(简单说一下蓝脸的故事，可以不用看这一段，反正我记不清了。)
蓝脸 is a non-leading role in the novel 《生死疲劳》, while he has a scar or birthmark on his face, so that he got this unique name. The main part of his story was based on the 'great leap forward' champion launched in 1950- 60s, which was a very special period in Chinese current history. As an ordinary peasant, he refused to join the people's communes but insist on being isolated with the group throughout the time, although people put a variety kinds of pressures on him, he never changed his mind or surrendered to others.
蓝脸给我最大的感触就是坚持自己不从众，这么做并不是出于理性或逻辑，或是他的价值观，或者他对社会的观察，而是出于一种盲目无知的坚持。这可能是一种偏执，也可能是自负，但却坚守住了自己的底线，没有让自己滑落到乌合之众的渊薮中。
大部分的人是做不到那么头铁的，在群体面前个体是渺小脆弱的，总会有动摇的时候，尤其是画地为牢之后。
唯一的办法就是多自省。虽然做到精神独立比较难，但至少不要总是被人利用。