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Mattias Desmet (Psychology of Totalitarianism)

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The Psychological Effect of Mass Formation in the Corona Crisis

The loneliness and a disconnection was the root cause of the psychological level of the mass relation. It seems to people as if the mass relation cures them takes away their loneliness, but that's not true. After a while everyone expects from everyone else that everyone sacrifices everything for the collective meaning there is no solidarity at all anymore between individuals. The corona crisis connects people and heroic it connects the group in a heroic battle with this object of anxiety and it leads to a mental state typically the same as hypnosis.

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