MOB MENTALITY

WHAT IS IT?

• The inability or refusal to listen to one's own instinct
• Or, "gut feeling". BUT!
• To instead follow the majority.
• For, fear of being wrong, ostracized or ridiculed.
• "Herd Mentality." Urban Dictionary. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.

IN LAYMEN'S

• It's basically a human behavior
• When placed in a group of people,
• People tend to "follow the leader"
• As depicted by simple children's games
• (Which is the basis of human nature)

"FOLLOW THE LEADER"

• When in this "mode",
• People feel as if they're
• "Under Pressure"
• To follow the crowd and think as a unit
• Which, in turn, creates "FEAR".

FEAR?

• That's correct.
• The FEAR of being singled out in the group.
• When placed under this "FEAR",
• Irrational actions become rational,
• And this concept amplified to a large group can be dangerous.

SALEM WITCH TRIALS

• The most renowned mob mentality
• When faced with something extreme,
• People tend to "wig out"
• This created the giant witch scare in Salem.
• Created by the majority mentality

DURING SUCH TRAILS,

• If you didn't follow everyone,
• And attempt to defy witchery,
• YOU WERE CONSIDERED A WITCH!
• See where this mentality gets dangerous?
• (Photo below, artist depiction of hangings)

12TH STREET RIOT

• A riot on 12th street in Detroit
• An unlicensed bar named,
• "Blind Pig"
• Was raided by the police
• (Previous Detroit Race Riots in image)

DETROIT RIOTS OF 67'

• Civilians were enraged
• by the altercations with the police.
• Most damaging riots of Detroit to this day
• (Image of current day location of riots)

AN EXAMPLE IN TEXT

• Here's a prime example,
• "This note, and variants on it, circulated on August 7,
• the day after a riot had broken out in the London district of Tottenham,
• protesting the police killing of a 29-year-old man in a botched arrest.
• So the recipients of this missive, many of them at least, were already..

CONT.

• primed for violence."
• Wasik, Bill. "#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—
• Coming to a City Near You." Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital, 16 Dec.
• 2011. Web. 23 Oct. 2013.
• This quote simply states the actions of people in a group in an enraged state

SPORTS MOBS

• Most brutal by far
• Easily enraged
• Large amounts of testosterone
• (Mob of hockey fans attacking other fan)
• Most people wouldn't do that, unless caught up in a mob