First published at 21:15 UTC on October 14th, 2021.
Mass Formation and Totalitarian Thinking in This Time of Global Crisis
Prof Mattias Desmet: The Eye of the Storm
Corona Committee, 30 July 2021
Mattias Desmet is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. He was the final gu…
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Mass Formation and Totalitarian Thinking in This Time of Global Crisis
Prof Mattias Desmet: The Eye of the Storm
Corona Committee, 30 July 2021
Mattias Desmet is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. He was the final guest at the Corona Committee Session 63: Eye of the Storm, conducted on the 30th of July 2021.
Even if we would succeed in waking up the masses now, they would fall prey to a different story in a few years. And they would be hypnotized again, IF, IF we do not succeed in solving the real problem of this crisis. Namely the question: Why did we as a society get in this state we're in?
If we do not succeed in finding out where this problem comes from, then the masses will always be susceptible to leaders who try to lure them into a mass formation.
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