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Power strives for more power and wealth strives for more wealth - a dynamic that endangers the cohesion of a society and threatens to destroy it: This is one of the earliest insights in the history of civilization. Power therefore always requires robust containment. The most important protective instrument for the civilization of power is the egalitarian guiding principle of democracy. Rainer Mausfeld shows along historical lines that the concept of democracy has been robbed of its original meaning and is now misused as democratic rhetoric for the purposes of domination. As a result, in recent decades there has been a decivilization of power, the psychological, social and ecological effects of which threaten human civilization as a whole. The emeritus psychology professor Rainer Mausfeld taught and researched in Mannheim and Kiel. He examines anthropological and cognitive science aspects of democracy. The slides of the lecture are available for download at this link: https://bit.ly/VortragMausfeldDemokra...