Reupload from March 17, 2024, shortened version without discussion with slides - How the systematic removal of boundaries from power elites is destroying our society. A lecture presented by Prof. Dr. Rainer Mausfeld on March 13, 2024 in Munich. You can find the lecture slides in the following link: https://we.tl/t-7pT6kovI98 Rainer Mausfeld is a professor at the University of Kiel and held the chair for perception and cognitive research until his retirement. In his socio-political contributions, he deals with neoliberal ideology, the transformation of democracy into an authoritarian security state, and psychological techniques for opinion and outrage management. With his lectures (including How are opinion and democracy controlled? and The fear of the power elites of the people), he reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners. His bestsellers Why are the lambs silent? were recently published by Westend Verlag. (2018), Fear and Power (2019) and Hubris and Nemesis (2023). #rainermausfeld #westendverlag #mausfeld #politics #lecture #psychology #democracy The risks and dangers of military and ecological destruction are so great today that they threaten human civilization as a whole. The challenge of creating a good, livable and well-ordered world community is more pressing than ever. But the only means on which hope can be based is de facto no longer available to us today: democracy. The cognitive psychologist Rainer Mausfeld argues that democracy has become an empty phrase: While democracy was once an instrument for containing elite depravity, the guiding principle of democracy has been expropriated, falsified and turned into its opposite: the rule of elites. In a broad arc, Mausfeld shows how this devastating development could have come about and what we must do to escape the civilizational abyss. His analysis reaches back to antiquity: We must rediscover nothing less than law and shame, two emotions that are essentially linked to the true idea of ​​democracy. Link to the shop: https://www.buchkomplizen.de/hybris-u... Follow our other channels: Newsletter: https://www.westendverlag.de/newsletter/ Twitter: / westendverlag Facebook: / westendverlag TikTok : / westendverlag TikTok KI: / westendverlag_