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The history of civilization is riddled with painful collective experiences of serious civilizational breakdowns. It was only with great effort and slowness that social protective instruments were developed to counteract the causes of wars and civil wars. The normative guiding principles of an egalitarian democracy and egalitarian international law are the most important civilizational achievements in securing peace, peace within society and peace between nations. Both guiding principles have been largely undermined or destroyed in recent decades. Democracy has been transformed into an increasingly authoritarian elite electoral oligarchy and international law has been subjected to the hegemonic claim to power of the militarily, economically and propaganda-wise strongest. As a result of these developments, both guiding principles have increasingly lost their peace-securing power. This dismantling of civilizational achievements is currently intensifying in a way that threatens the future of human civilization as a whole. Rainer Mausfeld spoke on November 21, 2024 in the Hugenottenhalle in Neu-Isenburg. You can find the lecture slides in the following link: https://we.tl/t-JyadJblN78 Link to the shop: https://www.buchkomplizen.de/hybris-u... #rainermausfeld #westendverlag #mausfeld #politics #lecture #psychology #democracy Follow our other channels: Newsletter: https://www.westendverlag.de/newsletter/ Twitter: / westendverlag Facebook: / westendverlag TikTok : / westendverlag TikTok AI: / westendverlag_ 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. He reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners with his lectures (including How are opinion and democracy controlled? and The power elites' fear of the people). His most recent bestsellers, Why are the lambs silent? (2018), Fear and Power (2019) and Hubris and Nemesis (2023), were published by Westend Verlag.