What is the appeal of mass movements and what attracts people to them? What type of person gets sucked into one? Are there underlying ideas or themes that are shared by all mass movements?
In 1951, Eric Hoffer published a book called "True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements." In it, he argues that mass movements are broadly interchangeable even when their stated goals or values differ dramatically.
In this video essay, I apply some of his insights to modern social justice movements.
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With each passing day, Trump's characterization of the Media as the "Enemy of the People" is proving more and more accurate. Just look at the coverage of the riots and the Kyle Rittenhouse situation.
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THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS: ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, APRIL 27, 1961
And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
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We look at some of the crazy, astonishing and absurd things that happened this week, including:
- the voice actor for Cleveland stepping down because characters of color should be voiced by people of color
- the Houston Association of Realtors is replacing “master” with “primary” on its online property database
- the Dixie Chicks renaming to "The Chicks"
- the Cambridge professor who says "White Lives Don't Matter"
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Twitter is awash with Zoomers losing their s**t over Trump's move to ban TikTok, literally begging the President to consider how much the app helps them with their self-esteem and to ignore the glaring abuses of the Chinese Communist Party. Unreal.
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In episode #1 of The Preamble, I discuss what happened with GameStop and the reaction of the ruling class. I also discuss an article published in Tablet Mag about this disturbing trend of journalists against Free Speech. Finally, we get into who the Neo-racists are.
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Robert Peter George is an American legal scholar, political philosopher, and public intellectual who serves as the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
In an epic little Twitter thread, he shared a question that he poses to his students which completely a person's false sense of self-righteousness. Would his students have opposed slavery? They all said yes.
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White liberals at it again with their soft bigotry.
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