"Não é no Uno, mas no múltiplo, que respiramos". (2010-2023)
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the… Continue lendo The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World? | Academy of Ideas
"Man does not make his ideas; we could say that man's ideas make him." C. G. JUNG "In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their place in time, take shape as events: the trajectory is complete,… Continue lendo How Ideas can Trigger a Mass Psychosis | Academy of Ideas
For years I received the visit of a beggar who would ask me questions about God, matter, evil, etc., which, of course, I could not answer. He carried those questions within him, revolved around them in every way possible, confused himself with them. I have never known anyone more laden, more afflicted by the insoluble… Continue lendo Fear Psychosis and the Cult of Safety – Why are People so Afraid? | Academy of Ideas
In this video we explore the ideas of Peter Wessel Zapffe and Friedrich Nietzsche, specifically the ideas that individuals utilize repressional mechanisms to protect themselves from the "pain of living", and how art and beauty can be a stimulus to life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTXj6ZEANFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNJJmmCkqY Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion. The greatest of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaped so much of the history of the past two centuries were episodes in the history of faith – moments in the long dissolution of Christianity and the rise of modern political religion. The world in… Continue lendo Is Government the New God? – The Religion of Totalitarianism
Judging by Kierkegaard, the worst mode of despairing is no despair at all; it is a hopeless despair, as the subject is unlikely to realize what's going on with them, in them. Likewise, in times of pandemics, those who are partying, celebrating, not giving a damn about themselves and others, are likely to be in… Continue lendo Academy of Ideas: “Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity?”
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