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The Psychology of Totalitarianism with Mattias Desmet (WiM201)

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Mass Formation Psychosis

There's a mythological structure that we inhabit ah, and as individuals, that story really guides our lives in a lot of way. It tells us what the proper behavior is with one another, what the cultural norms are. But then if that narrative is, i guess, tilted or controlled or manipulated, that it's almost, it's used as a means of psychologically operating in people, right? You can, you can twist a narrate in one direction or another and create these very unexpected individual outcomes,. Is thata a proper framing for something like this? To a certain extent, it is. mas formation is a a complex dynamical phenomenon. Its an emergent phenomenon. Sometimes it

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