Totalitarianism Archives - CNCL https://cncl.info/tag/totalitarianism/ Centre for Nonviolence & Conscious Living Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:48:21 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://cncl.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-CFN_Logo_Black_on_White-512x512-32x32.jpg Totalitarianism Archives - CNCL https://cncl.info/tag/totalitarianism/ 32 32 Mass Psychosis: Understanding the Descent into Collective Madness https://cncl.info/human-society/mass-psychosis-understanding-the-descent-into-collective-madness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mass-psychosis-understanding-the-descent-into-collective-madness https://cncl.info/human-society/mass-psychosis-understanding-the-descent-into-collective-madness/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:02:45 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=226850 A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction. Two examples of mass psychoses are the American and European witch hunts 16th and 17th centuries and the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century.

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