The Art of Truth Speech | Mattias Desmet

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I recently met Mattias Desmet, a professor in clinical psychology at Ghent University. He became famous during the Covid period for his work on the concept of “mass formation psychosis.”

In this sit-down interview, I ask Desmet his interpretation of the events we lived through and his take on it as a clinical psychologist.

Why do crowds behave mindlessly and how can elites induce states of mass psychology and channel them toward self-destructive ends? Mattias Desmet breaks this process down and gives his solution: the continued practice of truth speech.