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That's cool. As someone who doesn't follow sports, or anything that I'm purely a nonparticipant in, it baffles me how much people can care about stuff like thi
by great_kraken 11y ago
That's cool.
As someone who doesn't follow sports, or anything that I'm purely a nonparticipant in, it baffles me how much people can care about stuff like this, especially enough to injure another human being. It's a crazy thing that it does to the human mind.
- thret 11y ago"Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Their suggestibility is increased to the point where they cease to have any judgment or will of their own. They become very excitable, they lose all sense of individual or collective responsibility, they are subject to sudden accesses of rage, enthusiasm and panic. In a word, a man in a crowd behaves as though he had swallowed a large dose of some powerful intoxicant. He is a victim of what I have called 'herd-poisoning.'"[1] [1] http://reasontostand.org/archives/2011/01/19/aldous-huxley-on-propaganda-and-why-we-fall-for-it-2 http://reasontostand.org/archives/2011/01/19/aldous-huxley-o... Also, for historical interest the blue-green riots in Rome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
- kitd 11y agoSee also Deindividuation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation
- pjc50 11y agoIt's not the sport, it's the loyalty and belonging.