Description: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric HofferTime, 1963. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Appears unread. 188 pages. A book about mass movements. The book discloses techniques that a leader can use to start and maintain a mass movement. The book describes techniques for preventing conditions that make a population ripe for joining a mass movement.Contempt for facts, and virtue of ignorance, and elevation of dogma over reason, as techniques that a leader uses to start and maintain a mass movement. Need for the leader of a mass movement to create a devil (a target of common hatred). Creativity in the arts, literature, or science, and how lack of creativity in any person can make that person a better recruit for a mass movement. The leader of a mass movement acquires recruits for the mass movement by stripping people of their individual identity and then replacing it with a "wild hope" and with identification with, "something mighty, glorious, and indestructable".CONCEPTS: (I) A mass movement can be both a religious mass movement and a nationalist mass movement; (II) A mass movement can be stopped by substituting one kind of mass movement for another kind of mass movement; and (III) A mass movement can be weakened or stopped where members of the mass movement can emigrate to another part of the world; (IV) A mass movement can be maintained where the leader prevents emigration to another part of the world; and (V) Combination of mass movement with migration. Loc: A4StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackMASS MOVEMENTS Political Control Population Manipulation Leaders Hate Dogma Fear The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric HofferTime, 1963. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Appears unread. 188 pages. A book about mass movements. The book discloses techniques that a leader can use to start and maintain a mass movement. The book describes techniques for preventing conditions that make a population ripe for joining a mass movement.Contempt for facts, and virtue of ignorance, and elevation of dogma over reason, as techniques that a leader uses to start and maintain a mass movement. Need for the leader of a mass movement to create a devil (a target of common hatred). Creativity in the arts, literature, or science, and how lack of creativity in any person can make that person a better recruit for a mass movement. The leader of a mass movement acquires recruits for the mass movement by stripping people of their individual identity and then replacing it with a "wild hope" and with identification with, "something mighty, glorious, and indestructable".CONCEPTS: (I) A mass movement can be both a religious mass movement and a nationalist mass movement; (II) A mass movement can be stopped by substituting one kind of mass movement for another kind of mass movement; and (III) A mass movement can be weakened or stopped where members of the mass movement can emigrate to another part of the world; (IV) A mass movement can be maintained where the leader prevents emigration to another part of the world; and (V) Combination of mass movement with migration. Loc: A4
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Number of Pages: 188
Topic: General Politics, Global Politics, International Politics, Political Extremism, Political History, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Political Science, Popular Psychology, General, Psychology, Mass Movements, Population Control, Population Manipulation
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Era: 1960s
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Language: English
Publication Year: 1963
Book Title: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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Author: Eric Hoffer
Original Language: English
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