Quote: “The vividness and tangibility of a mass movement can be measured by its devil.” – Eric Hoffer
I just wanted to share this quote. I’m not sure if it applies 100%, but I can see some powerful groups and movements having a “devil.” The groups with the least to fight for or against are the most apathetic and tend to disintegrate when in the presence of more passionate groups?
The latest most obvious example was covid hysteria propagated by the media, with the unvaxxed becoming the enemy at some point.
Ours would be fighting against our disappearance, repression, and oppression, as we’ve become a more and more marginalized group. Although it seems as if most white people don’t have awareness of this like we do, and as such don’t care and/or think it’s a good thing. They might not be aware of the “enemies” that have pushed this and made it streamlined as the new normal.
(I heard this Eric Hoffer quote being quoted by a Jewish man who considers himself an expert on cults, even though he was in the Moonies for only about two years. He wrote a book that made out people who supported Trump as being in “the cult of Trump.” I think of him as a gatekeeper on which groups are “cults.”)