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Why the time was ripe for an authoritarian takeover

WHILE the global pandemic and the climate crisis provide the overarching justifications for an elite-led global economic reset, it is clear that the make-up and constitution of society was itself ‘advantageous’ for such a transformation to be pursued. Mattias Desmet’s ideas on ‘mass formation psychosis’ quickly became the go-to theory in 2020 to explain the […]