1 FEAR of death
2 too much trust in government
3 mass formation
- as described very well by Prof Mattias Desmet from Belgium, although it is not a new phenomena, you can read about Gustave Le Bon who wrote a book in the late 1890’s, The Crowd:A study of the Popular Mind or look into the American psychiatrist Mark McDonald who wrote The…
- as described very well by Prof Mattias Desmet from Belgium, although it is not a new phenomena, you can read about Gustave Le Bon who wrote a book in the late 1890’s, The Crowd:A study of the Popular Mind or look into the American psychiatrist Mark McDonald who wrote The United States of Fear, you also have The British author Douglas Murray whose Madness of Crowds is a good intro to what happens to people when they come into formation or crowds even though his book discusses gender/race and identity and not free floating anxiety, but I see it kind of in the same way, you have to follow the crowd otherwise you are an outcast which divides people in two groups
1 FEAR of death
2 too much trust in government
3 mass formation
- as described very well by Prof Mattias Desmet from Belgium, although it is not a new phenomena, you can read about Gustave Le Bon who wrote a book in the late 1890’s, The Crowd:A study of the Popular Mind or look into the American psychiatrist Mark McDonald who wrote The United States of Fear, you also have The British author Douglas Murray whose Madness of Crowds is a good intro to what happens to people when they come into formation or crowds even though his book discusses gender/race and identity and not free floating anxiety, but I see it kind of in the same way, you have to follow the crowd otherwise you are an outcast which divides people in two groups