<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 11:00:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/thecrowd/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  The Imagination of Crowds]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 56. Just as is the case with respect to persons in who the reasoning power is absent, the figurative imagination of crowds is very powerful,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-imagination-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-imagination-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:03:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  The Reasoning Power of Crowds]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 54. It cannot absolutely be said that crowds do not reason and are not to be influenced by reasoning. However, the arguments they employ and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-reasoning-power-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-reasoning-power-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  The Ideas of Crowds]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 47. When studying in a preceding work the part played by ideas in the evolution of nations, we showed that every civilisation is the outcome]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-ideas-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-ideas-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:   The Morality of Crowds.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 43 . Taking the word "morality" to mean constant respect for certain social conventions, and the permanent repression of selfish]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-morality-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-morality-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:06:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  The Intolerance, Dictatorialness and Conservatism of Crowds.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 39 . Crowds are only cognisant of simple and extreme sentiments; the opinions, ideas, and beliefs suggested to them are accepted or rejected]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-intolerance-dictatorialness-and-conservatism-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-intolerance-dictatorialness-and-conservatism-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:06:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  The Exaggeration and Ingenuousness of the Sentiments of Crowds.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 35 . Whether the feelings exhibited by a crowd be good or bad, they present the double character of being very simple and very exaggerated.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-exaggeration-and-ingenuousness-of-the-sentiments-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-exaggeration-and-ingenuousness-of-the-sentiments-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:02:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  The Suggestibility and Credulity  OF Crowds.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 22 . When defining crowds, we said that one of their general characteristics was an excessive suggestibility, and we have shown to what an]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-suggestibility-and-credulity-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-suggestibility-and-credulity-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  THE SENTIMENTS AND MORALITY OF CROWDS.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 16 . Having indicated in a general way the principal characteristics of crowds, it remains to study these characteristics in detail. It will]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-sentiments-and-morality-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-sentiments-and-morality-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  The Minds of Crowds]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 2 . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CROWDS In its ordinary sense the word 'crowd' means a gathering of individuals of whatever nationality, profession,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-minds-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-the-minds-of-crowds</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  Introduction]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 16 . The great upheavals which precede changes of civilisation, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the foundation of the Arabian Empire,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-introduction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-introduction</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon:  Preface]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book comes from this link. Today's excerpt begins on page 8 . The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-preface</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-129614/@antisocialist/the-crowd-by-gustave-le-bon-preface</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-129614]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:06:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh8d73sSidTexKCMz1TuqPRRfu8t1KXJuvbjZJocc7srxXyjhQNhiMyVt45jUr7WU6CmBVEzon6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obligatory 'introducing myself' to the attention economy post...]]></title><description><![CDATA[This will be my first publically accessible broadcast -or post- in several years, so please bear with me. I have little time for grammar, spelling, punctuation and careful sentence structuring. Quite honestly]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/me/@bevansedwin/obligatory-introducing-myself-to-the-attention-economy-post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/me/@bevansedwin/obligatory-introducing-myself-to-the-attention-economy-post</guid><category><![CDATA[me]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bevansedwin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2017 13:26:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3jpR3paJ37V8t3d5gG8YxUrFtTrvhgCDjjN8jFs761xgeANepaFER6mkWDbE8uhkidaJyd48tNLu8SYrj1aq14pJEHprqYcRwHnMLCAEqSWb3iS81Np3DMmQRvj5ZE6446oiE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>