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The Psychology of Totalitarianism with Mattias Desmet (WiM201)

The "What is Money?" Show

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How to Summarize a Theory on Massformation From the Literature

During the gorona crisis, i tried to show people that statistics were wrong. The mathematical models of issued by imperial college are dramatically overrated the dangerousness of the virus. I noticed immediately the same as i noticed before at e university, namely,. that people simply refused to see all evident that showed that the narrative was utterly absurd. That was the moment when i decided to to switch my focus. And a, rather than trying to show people why the statistics were wrong, i tried  to show people what psychological processes were going on in society which could explain why so many people continued tobuy into the narrative even though it was already proven the narrative was wrong.

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