Sowing Hate and Chaos Quotes

“In a crowd, Le Bon postulates, the individual’s consciousness “disintegrates” into a collective, and more primitive, state of mind. Under the right conditions, this primitive mind—Freud’s “id”—can be managed and manipulated by the careful choice of words, colors, music, and staged events. The result is the igniting of the two most powerful drives of the unconscious: Freud’s Eros, and Thanatos. These show themselves, Le Bon said, as the love and adoration for a leader, a thirst for violence, and “absolute certainty in the cause, a belief in their own omnipotence, and a furious hatred of perceived opponents.”10”
― Mary Wald, Sowing Hate and Chaos: How Propaganda Is Used to Destroy Democracy