{"id":3369,"date":"2022-06-19T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2022-06-28T05:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T05:42:32","slug":"on-totalitarianism-profoundly-timely-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/on-totalitarianism-profoundly-timely-books\/","title":{"rendered":"ON Totalitarianism Profoundly Timely Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_5376716943983504723yiv9436861708yqt75698\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"adM\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Psychology-Totalitarianism-Mattias-Desmet\/dp\/1645021726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Psychology-Totalitarianism-Mattias-Desmet\/dp\/1645021726&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1656480487488000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04tL_Ate7KHns3oZ-a341Q\">The Psychology of Totalitarianism Profoundly Timely Book\/June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The world is in the grips of\u00a0mass formation\u2015a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis\u2015as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to\u00a0censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all\u00a0spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink.<\/p>\n<p>Desmet\u2019s work on mass formation theory was brought to the world\u2019s attention on\u00a0The Joe Rogan Experience\u00a0and in major alternative news outlets around the globe. Read this book to get beyond the sound bites!<\/p>\n<p>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\u2015from the Jacobins to the Nazis and Stalinists\u2015as 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.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0The 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 \u201cmass formation\u201d\u2015a type of collective hypnosis\u2015he clearly illustrates how close we are to surrendering to totalitarian regimes.<\/p>\n<p>With detailed analyses, examples, and results from years of research, Desmet lays out the steps that lead toward mass formation, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overall sense of\u00a0loneliness\u00a0and lack of social connections and bonds<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0lack of meaning\u2015unsatisfying \u201cbullsh*t jobs\u201d that don\u2019t offer purpose<\/li>\n<li>Free-floating\u00a0anxiety\u00a0and discontent that arise from loneliness and lack of meaning<\/li>\n<li>Manifestation of\u00a0frustration\u00a0and\u00a0aggression\u00a0<wbr \/>from anxiety<\/li>\n<li>Emergence of\u00a0a consistent narrative\u00a0from government officials, mass media, etc., that exploits and channels frustration and anxiety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to clear psychological analysis\u2015and building on Hannah Arendt\u2019s essential work on totalitarianism,\u00a0The Origins of Totalitarianism\u2015Desmet offers a sharp critique of the cultural \u201cgroupthink\u201d that existed prior to the pandemic and advanced during the COVID crisis. He cautions against the dangers of our current societal landscape, media consumption, and reliance on manipulative technologies and then offers simple solutions\u2015both individual and collective\u2015to prevent the willing sacrifice of our freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can honor the right to freedom of expression and the right to self-determination without feeling threatened by each other,\u201d Desmet writes. \u201cBut there is a point where\u00a0we must stop losing ourselves in the crowd to experience meaning and connection. That is the point where the winter of totalitarianism gives way to a spring of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesmet has an . . . important take on everything that\u2019s happening in the world right now.\u201d\u2015Aubrey Marcus, podcast host<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Desmet] is waking a lot of people up to the dangerous place we are now with a brilliant distillation of how we ended up here.\u201d\u2015Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bodies-Others-Authoritarians-Covid-19-Against\/dp\/1737478560\/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=the%20bodies%20of%20others%20naomi%20wolf&amp;qid=1649684899&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the%20bodies%20of%20others%2Cstripbooks%2C60&amp;sr=1-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bodies-Others-Authoritarians-Covid-19-Against\/dp\/1737478560\/ref%3Dsr_1_6?keywords%3Dthe%2520bodies%2520of%2520others%2520naomi%2520wolf%26qid%3D1649684899%26s%3Dbooks%26sprefix%3Dthe%2520bodies%2520of%2520others%252Cstripbooks%252C60%26sr%3D1-6&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1656480487488000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3pZs9XNqcmC7uzfyhYUwOP\">The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and the War Against the Human<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our pre-March 2020 world is gone forever. Irretrievable. For in league with mass surrender to all-powerful technology, the \u201crestrictions\u201d against human assembly, speech and gathering, culture and worship brough on by pandemic panic have brought new cultural norms frighteningly at odds with traditional Western notions of freedom and independent thought. Indeed, in our fear of public ostracism and shaming and our ready abandonment of free, open, spontaneous, individualistic, egalitarian and tolerant expression, we in the West today live in a world of CCP-style regimentation and conformity. It is a world in which all human endeavor\u2014all human joy, all human fellowship, all human advancement, all human culture, all human song, all human drama, all worship, all surprise, all flirtation, all celebration\u2014is behind a digital pay wall. A world in which we must ask permission of technology to be human. This is a world we must challenge and change.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bodies-Others-Authoritarians-Covid-19-Against\/dp\/1737478560\/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=the%20bodies%20of%20others%20naomi%20wolf&amp;qid=1649684899&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the%20bodies%20of%20others%2Cstripbooks%2C60&amp;sr=1-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bodies-Others-Authoritarians-Covid-19-Against\/dp\/1737478560\/ref%3Dsr_1_6?keywords%3Dthe%2520bodies%2520of%2520others%2520naomi%2520wolf%26qid%3D1649684899%26s%3Dbooks%26sprefix%3Dthe%2520bodies%2520of%2520others%252Cstripbooks%252C60%26sr%3D1-6&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1656480487488000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3pZs9XNqcmC7uzfyhYUwOP\">The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and the War Against the Human<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ur pre-March 2020 world is gone forever. Irretrievable. For in league with mass surrender to all-powerful technology, the \u201crestrictions\u201d against human assembly, speech and gathering, culture and worship brough on by pandemic panic have brought new cultural norms frighteningly at odds with traditional Western notions of freedom and independent thought. Indeed, in our fear of public ostracism and shaming and our ready abandonment of free, open, spontaneous, individualistic, egalitarian and tolerant expression, we in the West today live in a world of CCP-style regimentation and conformity. It is a world in which all human endeavor\u2014all human joy, all human fellowship, all human advancement, all human culture, all human song, all human drama, all worship, all surprise, all flirtation, all celebration\u2014is behind a digital pay wall. A world in which we must ask permission of technology to be human. This is a world we must challenge and change.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Psychology of Totalitarianism Profoundly Timely Book\/June 23, 2022 &nbsp; The world is in the grips of\u00a0mass formation\u2015a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis\u2015as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to\u00a0censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all\u00a0spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/on-totalitarianism-profoundly-timely-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ON Totalitarianism Profoundly Timely Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}