Mattias Desmet, PhD, author of "The Psychology of Totalitarianism", says:
Propaganda became more and more and more important throughout the 19th century.
And then with World War One and World War Two in the 20th century.
And now we live in a …
Mattias Desmet, PhD, author of "The Psychology of Totalitarianism", says:
Propaganda became more and more and more important throughout the 19th century.
And then with World War One and World War Two in the 20th century.
And now we live in a time where propaganda is everywhere, without us realizing it.
Starting from the 17th century, the religious view [of] man and the world was slowly replaced by the rationalist-materialist view [of] man in the world.
And then two things started to happen simultaneously.
More and more people got lonely, lack of meaning, making more frustration, anxiety and aggression and so on.
But at the same time, the elite changed because the ancient elite, the clergy and the noblemen, could just impose their will to the population.
They could tell the population what to do.
The new elite couldn't do that anymore.
They found a solution to that.
They said if we cannot impose our will anymore, we have to make sure that the population does what we want without them knowing that they do what we want.
It was the moment at which modern propaganda started to exist.
Modern propaganda started in the beginning of the 19th century.
Modern propaganda was like scientifically-based, ideologically-founded and industrialized manipulation of the population.
Propaganda became more and more and more important throughout the 19th century.
And then with World War One and World War Two in the 20th century.
And now we live in a time where propaganda is everywhere, without us realizing it.
The emergence of an elite [group] which used more and more propaganda, and the emergence of a population which got more and more lonely...
These two evolutions reinforced each other because the lonely state of a population, of an individual, is exactly the state where someone is most vulnerable for propaganda.
A mass formation and propaganda leads to the emergence of a new kind of state, a totalitarian state.
And I think we are again at risk of the emergence of such a worldwide global totalitarian state.
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The full interview with Mattias Desmet done Jan 20, 2024 by Zahra Sethna, host of "Collapse Life", is posted here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3sDlhE6bI
