
Mattias Desmet (Psychology of Totalitarianism)
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The Effect of a Large-Scale Mass Dimension
I like the way that it's connected to the inherent nihilism and loss of meaning that many people are experiencing. Many of the ideas of the last century and the religious ideas that preceded them are starting to collapse into ideas of commerce and pleasure as opposed to meaning and purpose Fascinates me also Matthias that the energy can be directed in this way but I guess that one of the things that a lot of people will inquire about is that when we talk about totalitarianism in its earlier forms there were key identifiers such as emblems, rhetoric or violence. Are you similarly making the case that there will be a corollary of violence or will it be neutered? Is that kind of violence no
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