
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
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Narrated by:
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Dan Crue
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By:
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Mattias Desmet
We bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink.
Totalitarianism is not a coincidence and does not form in a vacuum. It arises from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script throughout history, its formation gaining strength and speed with each generation—from the Jacobins to the Nazis and Stalinists—as technology advances. Governments, mass media, and other mechanized forces use fear, loneliness, and isolation to demoralize populations and exert control, persuading large groups of people to act against their own interests, always with destructive results.
In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow this collective psychosis to take hold. By looking at our current situation and identifying the phenomenon of “mass formation”—a type of collective hypnosis—he clearly illustrates how close we are to surrendering to totalitarian regimes.
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The delivery is impressive, both enjoyable and easy to understand and follow along, which was no given on such difficult topics.
One of my best reads ever, possibly because I had come to the same conclusions myself and it feels comforting intellectually and humanly to know we’re many out there.
Seminal work that will mark history
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Superb!
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Very enlightening and well supported with helpful references
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extremely informative, eye opener.
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challenging and hopeful
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Great analysis of totalitarian societies
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So much of history is devoted to what happened. This book is devoted to the why. The proximate cause of this book was our collective response to the Covid crisis, just as Hoffer's masterpiece was concerned with understanding the Nazi phenomenon.
Desmet provides a useful lens through which to interpret history and current events, and anyone who would not find it useful should at least find it interesting.
Illuminating
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Wow
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A Birds Eye View of our World
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Very insightful
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