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“Dictatorship are based on a primitive psychological mechanism, namely on the creation of a climate of fear amongst the population, based on the brutal potential of the dictatorial regime. Totalitarianism, on the other hand, has its roots in the insidious psychological process of mass formation.”

Psychology Society Population Ideology Ideological Masses Fixation

Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Mass formation is, in essence, a kind of group hypnosis that destroys individual's ethical self-awareness and robs them of their ability to think critically.”

Individual Psychology Society Population Ideology Ideological Masses Fixation

Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“The fact the the human being is like a flower that only blooms when it can enjoy the shade of privacy once in a while is of minor importance in a technocratic worldview. Anyone who refuses to go along with the system lacks civic sense, considers oneself more important than the collective. Your health is no longer your personal business, because some diseases are contagious.”

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Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Our fear originates on a completely different level -that of the failure of the Grand Narrative of our society. This is the narrative of mechanistic science, in which man is reduced to a biological organism. A narrative that ignores the psychological, symbolic, and ethical dimensions of human beings and thereby has a devastating effect at the level of human relationships. Something in this narrative causes man to become isolated from his fellow man, and from nature; something in it causes man to stop resonating with the world around him; something in it turns the human being into an atomized subject.”

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Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“If one focuses too much on the superficial appearances of life and loses touch with the underlying principles and figures, life will increasingly be experienced as a meaningless chaos, just like Lorenz's waterwheel.”

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Book:The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism