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Desmet simply renames the conformist behavior of those who don't want to take responsibility for their decisions:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/mass-formation-is-misrepresented

There was/is nothing mysterious about mass compliance. Punitive fines, violent enforcers, and refusal of entry into stores were enough to start enforcing the torture and humiliation of the muzzles and after that, it was the slippery slope of giving a finger and losing an arm. The next step was also easy to predict: Stockholm syndrome and refusing to admit that one had been fooled. Vanity permanently replaced self-respect in those, who had no self-respect to begin with. The trend is still going strong.

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