Understanding the Impact of Societal Violence

The speaker's experience of witnessing violence in their childhood, particularly being taken to Auschwitz at a young age, instilled a lifelong fear and confusion about people's capacity for perpetrating such acts. This led them to question and seek an understanding of why collective violence occurs. The concept of collective narcissism was first introduced by scholars studying the popularity of Hitler and the Nazi party, highlighting the need to comprehend the root causes and motivations behind societal violence.