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Does History Repeat Itself? Bret Speaks with Mattias Desmet

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Is Mass Formation Adaptable?

The author argues that religions, long standing ones, are evolutionarily adaptive in spite of being literally false. He believes totalitarian regimes that arise out of mass formation always fail. But does this mean the pattern is like a tumor, which kills its host, and it has no evolutionary meaning? Or is this something more than a tumor? Why are intelligent people equally if not more, vulnerable to participating in mass formation?

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