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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum
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To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (2796)3/30/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (2) of 9980
 
I have just been reading Gustave Le Bon's book The Crowd; he makes much the same points. His prime examples were Central American governments (nineteenth-century) with rational constitutions that no one paid any attention to because they did not reflect the ethos of the peoples they supposedly were to guide. He repeatedly argues that laws muct grow out of national habits of thinking and acting and cannot be artifically imposed on such habits. Changes in the law must reflect actual changes in opinions and behavior. A good example in the United States may be the way in which after enough people became convinced of the health dangers of tobacco, and began to object to tobacco smoke, laws began to exist prohibiting smoking in many more places, and the laws are honored. Previous to that, many people would smoke wherever they wanted to despite no-smoking rules and signs because no one cared to enforce the rules. The best negative example in the US was the Prohibition amendment to the constitution.
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