The Americans Did It
John Laughland http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/september/29/the-americans-did-it/ In his remarkable book, the Psychology of Totalitarianism, the Flemish psychologist Mathias Desmet explains how collective psychosis can cause people to lose their critical faculties. He cites a famous experiment in which a person can be made to say that one line on a diagram is the same length as another, when in fact it is longer, if seven or eight actors have pretended to come to the same conclusion before him.Desmet is writing mainly about the…
