Professor Mattias Desmet’s highly anticipated follow up to the bestselling The Psychology of Totalitarianism, from the author Tucker Carlson calls “the most intelligent person I ever interviewed.”
"How," Professor Mattias Desmet asks, "do we find our way forward in a world in which it is difficult to tell what is real and what is illusion?"
That way forward, Desmet argues, will necessarily include a revival of truth-telling, or what he refers to as the “art of sincere speech”—even (indeed, especially) in the most quotidian of circumstances. He believes that when this occurs—and we have all experienced it—there is something resonant and liberating that will be our most powerful antidote to the threats of mass formation and totalitarianism.
"A sincere word," Desmet writes, "is a word that breaks through the Ego, the world of superficial appearances. Any social system without sincerity, without words that connect people from Soul to Soul, eventually becomes a tyranny. Ultimately, the only way to contribute to overcoming the tyranny outside ourselves is to tackle the tyranny within."
The situation in the world is urgent and the global population needs an antidote to the march towards tyranny and totalitarianism. The Art of Sincere Speech is that antidote.
