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Monday, 19 August 2024

Psychologically speaking

 Mattias Desmet is a Professor of Clinical Psychology. Author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism. 

Extracts from an article he has written, published on Twitter. 

Propaganda is not primarily the art of lying; it is the art of psychological manipulation. It is primarily the art of directing attention. Propaganda ensures that you notice certain aspects of reality and not others. And what is more suited to that than a search engine?

The Democratic Party in America is rapidly discarding any democratic character and is transforming more and more into a fully developed totalitarian structure.

In a totalitarian system, no one is safe; everything and everyone can fall under the rules that are rewritten daily. This gives us a glimpse of what the coming years will mainly bring: unimaginable chaos and psychological dislocation.

Ilona. 19.8.2024

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