Unit2 Summary Of Individuals and Masses

Summary of Individuals and Masses

This article ,through the rhetoric of contrast, written by Aldous Huxley,a famous English author,describes the characteristics of individuals and masses.The article says that a man or woman makes direct contact with society in two ways: as a member of some familial, professional or religious group, or as a member of a crowd. Through

this

article

we

learned

that

individuals

are

moral ,intelligent,realistic and rational,but people in masses ,well-primed with

herd-poison,are

always

chaotic,suggestible,excitable

and

mindless.The representative figures are intellectuals who have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts,demand evidence, and propagandist who believe that all his statements are made without qualification,and others with different views are completely wrong.

In the end of the article ,it concludes that virtue and intelligence belong to human beings as individuals freely associating with other individuals in small groups and that mindlessness and moral idiocy are not characteristically human attributes; they are symptoms of herd-poisoning.