There are certain psychological characteristics that appear in herds that don’t appear in the individuals that comprise them.  This could very well be due to the fact that they’re inferior and they’re well aware of that. The herd emboldens them with power they don’t have alone.  Herds are fatal to the people.  They are suggestible and easily repeat what they are told.  Madness ,the building of herds is the beginning of de-civilization.

Men are governed by sentiments, customs, and the like.  That all goes out the window when you’re a member of the herd.  Good ideas come from a solitary mind.  They don’t come from a so-called leader that issues half-baked ideas to the herd he governs.  The herd then operates unconsciously based on what they were told.  Doing things that they would never think of doing by themselves.

The herd is guided by political transformations—there might be a few exceptions.  These political transformations rest on destroying religious and social beliefs.  Society is based on these beliefs.  The leader of the herd is intent on destroying society.  The state is vested in destroying society for their own gain.  If you haven’t realized this by now, you must.  It’s indispensable for growing as an individual, not as a member of the herd.

We live in the Era of Crowds, as Gustave Le Bon put it.  The half-baked idea of the divine right of kings has been replaced by the divine right of herds.  The herd gives them a feeling of power like it comes from above.  Herds exist.  This is universal in all nations.  These various herds have a destructive force.  Their destructive behavior is justified by being in the herd.  In a way, the masses love injustice.

A herd is simply the gathering of individuals.  Not bad when looked at from that perspective.  However, it becomes much more than a gathering.  The herd becomes a force for destruction.  It’s a disappearance of the individual.  He becomes absorbed into the desire of the so-called leader.  The herd no longer thinks, but is driven by emotion.  The individual mind has been taken over by the collective mind. herds

Reference

Gustav Le Bon; The Crowd