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KunstlerCast 359 — Mattias Desmet and Mass Formation Madness

KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century

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Anxiety, Frustration and Aggressiveness - The Third Condition

If people feel disconnected and if they are confronted with lack of meaning, typically a start to be confronted with negative effects. A narrative is distributed through the mass media indicating an object of anxiety at the same time providing a strategy to deal with it. And there might be e extraordinary willingness to participate in a strategy to dealing with the object of anxiety - even if the strategy is utterly absurd. People by into it because they feel this vibrating connection, this solidarity, which actually, and thatis crucial, is a symptomatic solidarity. It's an illusionary solidarity.

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