Don't mean to hijack the thread, but in the past 2 years or so, in attempting to understand our time of mass psychosis, I've read:
The True Believer Eric Hoffer
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon
The Captive Mind Milosz
The Reckless Mind Mark Lilla
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism Robert Jay Lifton
A Colorful History of Popular Delusions Robert E. Bartholomew
PRISONS WE CHOOSE TO LIVE INSIDE Doris Lessing
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing Joost A. M. Meerloo
The Devils Of Loudun Aldous Huxley
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1922
The Tyranny of Opinion Russell Blackford
The Madness Of Crowds Douglas Murray
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages Norman Cohn
The Elephant in the Brain Hidden Motives in Everyday Life Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson 2018
Of course, all this focused reading has only succeeded in alienating me from just about everyone I know and made me feel like a deranged freak (psychosis is contagious, after all:))
But then I read your thoughts and feel a bit better.
This is a truly well-written piece, although you might want to correct the "Zuccerberg" misspelling in the last paragraph. If you're concerned that those on the Twitter call would not understand your point, this piece clearly lays it out. Well done!
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but in the past 2 years or so, in attempting to understand our time of mass psychosis, I've read:
The True Believer Eric Hoffer
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon
The Captive Mind Milosz
The Reckless Mind Mark Lilla
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism Robert Jay Lifton
A Colorful History of Popular Delusions Robert E. Bartholomew
PRISONS WE CHOOSE TO LIVE INSIDE Doris Lessing
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing Joost A. M. Meerloo
The Devils Of Loudun Aldous Huxley
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1922
The Tyranny of Opinion Russell Blackford
The Madness Of Crowds Douglas Murray
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages Norman Cohn
The Elephant in the Brain Hidden Motives in Everyday Life Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson 2018
Of course, all this focused reading has only succeeded in alienating me from just about everyone I know and made me feel like a deranged freak (psychosis is contagious, after all:))
But then I read your thoughts and feel a bit better.
Thanks!
OK, now do Teenage Transgenderism
This is a truly well-written piece, although you might want to correct the "Zuccerberg" misspelling in the last paragraph. If you're concerned that those on the Twitter call would not understand your point, this piece clearly lays it out. Well done!