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Does History Repeat Itself? Bret Speaks with Mattias Desmet

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The Problem of the Emerging Mass Formation in Totalitarianism

The problem of the emerging mass formation in totoritarianism can never be really solved as long as we stick to our reductionist, mechanist fuel men. I agree with hanna arend that it is to be situated in an inmechanist, materialist ideology, not mechanist science. When science turns into an ideology, that means science once was an answer to dogmatic and anan institutionalized religion. But slowly it became an ideology itself. It became a set of dogmas and a set of preached prejudices itself. And very specific ideologya theology which believed that the entire universe could be reduced to a materialist machine  and perfectly described in a rational way. The

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