(Bath, England) Mattias Desmet, PhD, author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, wrote that our current post-Covid situation and diminishing freedoms is due to “mass formation…a kind of group hypnosis that destroys individuals’ ethical self-awareness and robs them of their ability to think critically.”

In this interview, Desmet discusses the cause and solution to totalitarianism and mass formation psychosis: parrhesia.