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Masha Gessen’s Guide to Understanding Tyranny
A passionate activist for social justice, and a fierce critic of the Vietnam war, Lifton’s specialty is the relationship between psychology and violence, Lifton was particularly interested in the process of “psychic numbing,” whereby some people become insensible to the pain of others. It is, in essence, how bad people are able to get away with bad things.
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