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the connection between the escape from an ineffectual self and a responsiveness to mass movements is very clear. The slipping author, artist, scienti… - Eric Hoffer
" "the connection between the escape from an ineffectual self and a responsiveness to mass movements is very clear. The slipping author, artist, scientist — slipping because of a drying-up of the creative flow within — drifts sooner or later into the camps of ardent patriots, race mongers, uplift promoters and champions of holy causes. Perhaps the sexually impotent are subject to the same impulse. (The
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About Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer (25 July 1902 – 21 May 1983) was an American writer on social and political philosophy. His first book, The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements (1951) is widely recognized as a classic on mass-movements and the psychological roots of fanaticism. Despite rising to fame with the success and popularity of his writings, he continued to work as a longshoreman until retiring at age 65.
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