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True believers and mass movements
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
by Eric Hoffer
The “true believer” of Hoffer’s title is someone who belongs not to the few but to the many, someone who strives to bring the entire group (the church, the nation, the world even) within the grip of one narrative, the force of one body of belief, the authority of one charismatic Leader. This kind of fanaticism has no interest in Inner Rings; its mo
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