Note: Timeline below.
Belgian Professor Mattias Desmet: There are three steps to mass formation psychosis, and signs point to the fact that we are living through the very last stage.
In this week's conversation, Ghent University's Dr. Mat…
Note: Timeline below.
Belgian Professor Mattias Desmet: There are three steps to mass formation psychosis, and signs point to the fact that we are living through the very last stage.
In this week's conversation, Ghent University's Dr. Mattias Desmet lays out his psychological theory of mass hypnosis, by which entire societies go insane and fall prey to totalitarianism.
What are the conditions that bind people into collectives rather than communities?
What causes a woman to hang her own child?
How does an extreme minority become the status quo?
We answer all these questions and, most importantly, finish on a ray of optimism - about how to balance on the knife's edge of chaos and come out whole on the other side.
Timeline:
00:00:43 What is the distinction between Dictatorship and Totalitarianism?
00:04:21 The center of mass in a totalitarian society is the crowd
00:09:21 How an extreme minority creates a majority
00:15:44 Why does the internet drive the hive mind?
00:19:56 Losing touch with the natural world
00:22:24 Technology isn't free
00:24:28 The three steps to chaos
00:28:57 The difference between the community and the collective
00:30:35 Reaping antisocial rewards
00:32:07 Total hypnosis requires a single voice
00:36:46 How foundational ethics come to be rewritten
00:38:31 The importance of dissenting voices
00:39:37 The dramatic consequences of silence
00:42:31 Warring totalitarian factions
00:44:56 Is there cause for optimism?
00:47:15 Solving the problem of atomization
00:48:03 How totalitarian movements fall apart
00:51:21 There is always a new crisis
00:54:11 Technocratic Totalitarianism
00:55:45 The Pitfalls of Mechanistic Thinking
00:58:26 Reality cannot be rationally apprehended
01:02:29 Closing thoughts
PODCAST INFO:
Anastasia completed her PhD studying microbial communication at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting and exploring the woods. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.
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