by Eric Hoffer. Successful mass movements need not believe in a god, but they must believe in a devil.

Rene Girard https://woodybelangia.com/what-is-mimetic-theory/ https://www.ravenfoundation.org/faqs/

by Iain McGilchrist. His [Julian Jaynes’] contention that the phenomena he describes came about because of a breakdown of the ‘bicameral’ mind – so that the two hemispheres, previously separate, now merged – is the precise inverse of what happened.

by Gustav Le Bon. The book had a profound impact not only on Freud but also on such twentieth-century masters of crowd control as Hitler and Mussolini – both of whom may have used its observations as a guide to stirring up popular passions. In the author’s words, “The masses have never thirsted after the […]