勒庞是一位研究人类行为的社会学家，这部剧英文版的副标题是：大众思维研究”。他在这本小书中记录了他对“人群”（包括政治人物）生活的见解。他仔细研究了人群和暴民（亦或说Fly Away Home）活动的特征和范围。虽时过百年但这里有许多见解适用于我们平时新闻中看到的事件，例如从西方事件角度出发的美国的竞选活动，工会起义等等；中国的大事件群体传销、为个体或团体募集资金等等现象，从而提醒我们在当今信息高速发展、各种媒体媒介轻而易举地通过网络世界传播的时代，我们可以不断反思、保持清醒、理性思考自己的言行，不要轻易沦为Fly Away Home。
本剧从群体精神统一律出发，阐述的主要观点分四个部分：
1、群体无意识——个体是有意识的，群体缺乏意识。
这造成本来文明人的个体轻易地退化成疯狂的野蛮人。
2、群体不关心事实真相——群体毫无理性。
他们的想象力敏感而强大，根本看不见丝毫事实而只在乎表象，轻而易举地就能把传言当事实来信奉。
3、群体不接受讨论——群体无思考能力
群体无法理解复杂事物，只有非黑即白两种观点，根本不接受讨论。
4、群体也有他们的“道德”
这种道德来自他们极端而偏执的情感，是他们眼中至高无上的“道德”。
勒庞是一个猖獗狂热的无神论者，他是法国无神一代的典型代表，其将宗教视为不知情的“人群心灵”的一种表现形式。因此剧中不难看出他对妇女的偏见及极端地否定个别民族的平等性。
“The crowd is always dominated by considerations of which it is unconscious—the disappearance of brain activity and the predominance of medullar activity—the lowering of intelligence and the complete transformation of the sentiments. The transformed sentiments may be better or worse than those of the individuals of which the crowd is composed. A crowd is as easily heroic as criminal.”
“The individual forming part of a crowd acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint. He will be the less disposed to check himself from the consideration that, a crowd being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.”
“A new commandment I give to you: love one another. As I have loved you, you are a
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