#213 Mattias Desmet - 'The Psychology of Mass Formation"
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How to Deal With the Object of Anxiety
The population itself was actually asking that which is also typical for totoritarianism, totorite. People feel anxious, frustrated and aggressive without knowing what they feel anxious frustrated and aggressive for. And an extremely aversive mental state. If under these conditions, a narrative is distributed through the mass medium, indicating an object of anxiety - then all this free froting anxiety might undermine the huge willingness to participate in the strategy to deal with the object of anxiety. That's exactly what happens. Even the strongest bonds between individuals deteriorate in a mass, yes. And people ar are willing to sacrifice the people they used to love for the sake of the collective. The longer a mass formation exists,
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