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Totalitarianism… Heading into it or out?
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Totalitarianism… Heading into it or out?
I just listened to 2 interviews with Prof. Mattias Desmet, who wrote the book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” I found them fascinating, as he explains how we got to where we are now… and what we can do about it. Here is a link to one of the interviews: https://thehighwire.com/videos/mattias-desmet-the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/
I would appreciate your comments.
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Hello Danielle, I found there is a SMN forum only about two months ago, and have hardly posted anything so far.
Desmet so far as I recall from around 2021 is the one who may have coined a term that I think is called ‘mass formation’. I haven’t watched the interview with him, but did read some of what he wrote and written interviews with him around 2021-22.
I found him to be one of the few western observers, of the contemporary state of affairs, who decided to fashion a framework for what he saw and understood. The ‘covid’ illusion (which is what I see it as) and its associated state actions – which caused great harm to hundreds of millions – were replicated, to greater or lesser degree, in several dozens of countries.
What I find extraordinary is that how this illusion was executed and maintained is still not a subject of academic or sociological inquiry.
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