Chapter 155: The Rabble
In any case, Wang Defu's expository essay can make readers who read the article have such a beautiful fantasy, which shows how attractive his words are.
Therefore, sometimes some of the so-called classic tourist places may not be because of how charming the original scenery is, but because it was fortunate enough to be patronized by a writer like Wang Defu, and created a famous piece that can be passed down to the world, so that it itself has become a famous attraction for later generations over time.
After Wang Defu's "Suzhou Garden" spread more and more, there are more and more tourists who come to Suzhou, maybe many years later, almost as long as everyone mentions the garden, they will think of Suzhou, as if garden art has become the city's business card, in fact, there are other places The garden art is not bad, but unfortunately there is no such a "Suzhou Garden" blessing, the natural fame is not as big as the Suzhou Garden.
With such a work, of course, Wang Defu has also become a front-ranking figure in the Suzhou Writers Association, and when the next council votes, with Wang Defu's current status in the literary world and the title of "senior writer" he has, he will be elected as a director, which is certainly not a big problem.
The so-called qualifications, in the face of Wang Defu's talent and reputation, seem to be relatively weak, and now Wang Defu has many supporters even in the Writers Association.
After that, Wang Defu began to write his "The Way of Writing", but this work, he did not write so organized, mainly because his perception of writing, every day is actually different, and what he wrote first is of course what he wants to tell readers the most.
He believes that the most important thing in writing is, of course, passion, writing, devoting yourself wholeheartedly, and then writing out the words are undoubtedly the most infectious.
And once there is no passion for writing, it will undoubtedly become a task, and if you write from the point of view of the task, you will write something that even the author himself thinks is just perfunctory.
Wang Defu is the kind of writer who would rather not write than write perfunctory words, perhaps this approach will make some editors and readers hate him and think that he is a procrastinator, but in fact he really devotes himself to creation with a very serious attitude......
While creating "The Way of Writing", he did not forget the task given to him by the head of Cao Xuping, that is, to create a more profound and highly ideological work.
For this reason, Wang Defu did not stop looking for materials by himself, but in this era, due to the lack of the Internet, the speed of dissemination of various information is too slow, and he can only look for it from newspapers, whether it is a newly listed newspaper or a previous newspaper.
In the process of tirelessly searching for materials and inspiration, it can only be said that the emperor lives up to his wishes, Wang Defu through the large-scale smashing, looting and burning incidents that have occurred in Chinese society, combined with the existing social psychology masterpiece in his brain, finally has the urge to put pen to paper.
The name of this work is called "The Rabble"!
That's right, after "The Subservient Status of Women", the next work with ideological connotations that Wang Defu wants to create is "The Rabble".
He had this idea because of a newspaper report about the mass riots that occurred in China in favor of domestic products and the rejection of foreign goods in a certain year, and he hoped to use social psychology to deeply analyze this kind of mass riots that always occur.
Of course, he must admit that this work borrows from the "Rabble: A Study of Mass Psychology" written by Gustave Le Pen, a French social psychologist in his world.
The Rabble: A Study of Mass Psychology is a book on the study of mass psychology.
In the book, Le Pen expounds on the characteristics of the group and the psychology of the group, pointing out that when the individual is an isolated individual, he has his own distinct personality characteristics, and when the person is integrated into the group, all his personality will be overwhelmed by the group, and his thoughts will be immediately replaced by the thoughts of the group. And when a group exists, it has characteristics such as emotional, non-dissent, and low IQ.
This work is not very many, about 150,000 words, a total of three volumes, a total of thirteen chapters, it was created in the context of the French Revolution.
Bourgeois scholars see the victory of the bourgeois revolution as the victory of reason. However, this view does not explain why reason called the people to drive out the king, and why the horrors of the Jacobin dictatorship arose.
Among the scholars who have tried to answer this question, Le Pen has become one of the most prominent: he has pioneered a new way to open up the psychological perspective of this research.
If Wang Defu wanted to create his own "Rabble", he would definitely have to change the background of the whole book, in fact, the world has not yet produced a huge bourgeois revolution, but the bourgeois reform has been going on.
While the gap between the rich and the poor is widening and money worship is prevalent, many people's anger is of course getting bigger and bigger, and when an outlet appears, the people who seem to be very order-abiding on a daily basis have become a group of mobs in some cases, and the rulers often use this group of mobs to achieve certain political goals.
After all, once such a mass incident occurs, some people will definitely be held responsible......
Wang Defu's "Rabble" is prepared to describe the general characteristics of group psychology in detail based on real examples, and analyzes the psychological, moral, and behavioral characteristics of people in a group state.
He wanted to explain why groups tend to be "blind," "impulsive," "fanatical," and "gullible," and how rulers use these characteristics to establish and consolidate their rule.
There is no doubt that once such a work of his comes out, it will definitely be able to create a genre, and even the term "group psychology" was first proposed by him, which will make this book break through the sky.
Presumably, even Cao Xuping, the head of Wang Defu's department, couldn't help but be surprised when he saw such a work, he would never have thought that Wang Defu would write a more profound work, and the other party would be able to create a new genre again......
However, Wang Defu's "Rabble" will definitely offend some of the "opposition parties" in the parliament, because what these opposition parties like to do most is to incite the masses, although they don't know what "group psychology" is, but using the "rabble" is simply a matter of ease!