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Covid-19 – Mass Formation or Mass Atrocity?
Mattias Desmet’s theory of Mass Formation attracted a great deal of attention in 2022. In this review of Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, we argue that it manifests the psychology of atrocity – and that "Mass Formation" paradoxically serves to legitimize the mass atrocity perpetrated during the Covid-19 era.
November 29, 2022