I want to welcome everyone back to part four of my reading of Eric Hoffer's True Believer,

a reminder about Thomas and my watching movies and reviewing them.

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The last one was Fantas, and we did that that for Halloween and we are getting ready to record our next

keep it a secret as to what it is right now all right let's let's see where Hoffer

goes with part three united action and self-sacrifice.

And he has a preface to this one.

The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice.

When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership,

ruthlessness, and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible

to understand the nature of mass movements unless it is recognized that the chief preoccupation

is to foster, perfect, and perpetuate a facility for united action and

self-sacrifice. Correct, but there is an ends as well. And self-sacrifice here,

the way I have to read this as to what I've been reading, what I've read so far is that

that's a bad thing, that people should be individuals, and by joining a movement, you've given

up your individuality and embraced collectivism.

To know the processes by which such a facility is engendered is to grasp

for the inner logic of most of the characteristic attitudes and practices of an active mass

movement. With few exceptions, any group or organization which tries, for one reason or another,

to create and maintain compact unity and a constant readiness for self-sacrifice

usually manifest to peculiarities, the peculiarities, both noble and base, of a mass movement.

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