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Mattias Desmet

Mattias Desmet

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Sep 10, 2026

Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
28:08
This is a real thing.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
28:09
And I think that we should try to find that quote of Matthias Desmet.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
28:14
When Matthias Desmet appeared on Tucker Carlson about... four or five years ago, and he had written a book.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
28:22
And in this book, he was talking about this phenomenon, mass formation psychosis.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
28:26
So what happens is it's the group think.
Heather WoodwardHOST
50:03
We
StephanieGUEST
50:04
talked before in one of the other podcasts, I brought up mass formation and Matthias Desmet.
StephanieGUEST
50:10
He got popular because of Joe Rogan.
StephanieGUEST
50:14
Somebody was on Joe Rogan and talked about mass formations.
StephanieGUEST
50:16
And then it's led back to Matthias Desmet because he's a psychologist that studies mass formations.
StephanieGUEST
50:25
And he wrote a book called The Psychology of Totalitarianism.
Heather WoodwardHOST
50:31
I remember you talking about this in another podcast.
Alan SandersHOST
83:48
See, I talked about mass formation and the psychosis that goes along with it.
Alan SandersHOST
83:53
There's a reason I brought that up earlier, because the psychologist Mattias Desmet actually came up with that.
Alan SandersHOST
84:01
It's described as a kind of collective hypnosis, and the conditions are always same, and I think if I describe it, they'd be very familiar to everybody in this audience.
Alan SandersHOST
84:16
You start with widespread isolation and loneliness, people who feel isolated and alone.

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