{"id":1530708,"date":"2022-06-28T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530708"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:49:01","slug":"loss-of-social-bonds-leads-to-mass-formation-rise-of-totalitarian-state-mattias-desmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/loss-of-social-bonds-leads-to-mass-formation-rise-of-totalitarian-state-mattias-desmet\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss of Social Bonds Leads to Mass Formation, Rise of Totalitarian State: Mattias Desmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Floss-of-social-bonds-leads-to-mass-formation-rise-of-totalitarian-state-mattias-desmet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When many people feel disconnected from their social environment they become prone to fanatical belief in an unreasonable narrative, creating favorable conditions for the emergence of a totalitarian state, said Mattias Desmet, a professor of clinical psychology.<\/p>\n<p>The psychological phenomenon where individuals who feel disconnected from their natural and social environment and experience purposelessness in life start to fanatically believe in a certain narrative\u2014even if it is absurd\u2014is a specific kind of group formation called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mass-formation\">mass formation<\/a>,\u00a0Desmet told EpochTV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mattias-desmet-mass-formation-hypnosis-and-the-rise-of-technocratic-totalitarianism_4535569.html\">American Thought Leaders<\/a>\u201d program on June 16.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals in the grip of the mass formation are blind to the absurdity of the group narrative to the point \u201cthat they become radically intolerant for dissident voices, and that in the end, they also stigmatize and ultimately try to destroy the people who do not go along with the narrative,\u201d Desmet explained.<\/p>\n<p>They are willing to sacrifice everything that used to be important for them for the narrative they believe in, said Desmet, one of the world\u2019s leading experts on the mass formation phenomenon and author of \u201cThe Psychology of Totalitarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, there was an incident during the Iranian revolution in 1979 in which an Iranian mother reported her son to the government for not being loyal enough to the state and helped to execute him, the professor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is exactly this kind of mass formation that leads to the emergence of totalitarian states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Totalitarian State and Classical Dictatorship <\/p>\n<p>A totalitarian state is always based on a segment of the society\u2013usually 20 to 30 percent of the population\u2013which becomes fanatically convinced of a certain narrative and of a certain ideology, for instance, the racist ideology of Nazi Germany or the Marxist ideology in the Soviet Union, Desmet explained. This fanatical part of the society, together with a few leaders, succeeds in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When many people feel disconnected from their social environment they become prone to fanatical belief in an unreasonable narrative, creating favorable conditions for the emergence of a totalitarian state, said Mattias Desmet, a professor of clinical psychology. 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