EP59: January 6th and the Myth of the Mob (ft. James Jasper and Joy Rohde)
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The January 6th hearings continued this week, so we took it as an opportunity to revisit how academics tried to explain the events. Many likened it to a kind of psycho-social pathology; terms like deindividuation, psychosis, groupthink, and mob mentality were thrown around liberally. This is basically crowd theory, a line of thought developed in … Read More Read More
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