Notes taken as listening to the late Summer 2022 Desmet interview.
Solidarity of the Mass as it's formed is not with specific others, it is with "the collective".
Desmet distinguishes outright Dictatorship and a Totalitarian State, though both a collective leadership.
Mass Formation => (preceeds) The Totalitarian (Power+Money+Ideology) State.
Notable Mass Formations are as old as humanity, but for the last 200 years have been becoming worse at an increasing rate.
The first Totalitarian States were the USSR & in 1930 & Nazi Germany in 1935.
And in both cases, within 6 months the final stage of Formation (the atrocities) began!
The totalitarian leaders use voices to maintain and increase the atrocities.
To continue the Formation process, the non-hypnotized need calm, but dissonant voices can keep alive good values, facts, and Truths.
A Totalitarian Leader
1. Often doesn't believe the Narrative
2. Always believes the Ideology, blindly. (For Desmet, at work in Belgium, the Ideology is Technocratic, Transhumanistic.).
3. May believe that the Ideological End, Justifies repeated false Narratives.
Hannah Arendt wrote, in 1951, Fascist Totalitarianism collapsed, you'll soon witness Communist Authoritarianism, but a new, ultimate, Technocratic Totalitarianism will emerge. Led by dull bureaucrats and technocrats.
Believe this if your view of man in the world is that the universe is a machine and that it should be made to run as smoothly as possible. This attitude always presents itself as science, but it has nothing to do with science!
Ethical Principles. Emerge from & transcend Rational Thinking.
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