I began reading these to understand what was happening around me. It changed how I see the world. Maybe it will for you too.
Authoritarianism & Mass Control Reading List:
1.The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt
2.Delusion and Mass Delusion – Joost A. M. Meerloo
3.The Rape of the Mind – Joost A. M. Meerloo
4.Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes – Jacques Ellul
5.Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
6.Brave New World Revisited – Aldous Huxley
7.Mass Formation and Totalitarianism – Mattias Desmet
8.The True Believer – Eric Hoffer
9.Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
10.Technopoly – Neil Postman
Key Research & Case Studies:
• Milgram (1963) – Obedience to Authority
• Zimbardo (1971) – Stanford Prison Experiment
• Adorno et al. (1950) – The Authoritarian Personality
• Duckitt (2001) – Authoritarianism and the Threat of Tyranny
• Kelman & Hamilton (1989) – Loyalty, Obedience, and Conformity
• Goode & Ben-Yehuda (1994) – Moral Panic & the Creation of Deviants
• Levitsky & Ziblatt – How Democracies Die
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