Super short one today. Please watch and share. I got to meet up with Professor Matthias Desmet in person in the Ivy Gardens Hotel in Dublin. He was here on a book tour for the psychology of totalitarianism, his fantastic new book. So we get to address the criticisms of his overall theory around mass formation.

And I think he does it with great aplomb.

So do enjoy.

Hey, all, I'm delighted to be here in the Ivy Gardens Hotel with Matthias Desmet.

Thank you, I remember.

Great to see in person.

You know, we had that amazing interview that did so well on YouTube about the psychology of totalitarianism.

And you know, it's your book tour, by the way. We'll touch on that first. You're here in Dublin for one of your events.

Yes, I am. I am. I'm here to give a few book presentations here in Dublin.

And it went well last night?

It went very well, yes, yes.

I like the city, I like the atmosphere, I like the Guinness, so I will come back.

Excellent.

And you know, some of the Irish are not fully mass-formed as yet, so that's good.

So today I wanted to briefly go through the content of our last interview and the link is down below.

So you can, it's an amazing interview, I think, but briefly go through the four and the two.

The preconditions for a mass formation to occur and what it really is, simply put, and then the two kind of injections that trigger it.

But mainly after that we'll focus on the factors that drive the mass formation, i.e.

the elites, the organizations, because some people criticized, well, mass formation and all

your talk is somewhat blaming the victim, blaming the people.

I know otherwise. But, but first the summary,

yeah. A summary as well. In the beginning of the crisis, I noticed that people who bought into

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