Can we take severely an idea invented by a thinker who doesn’t exist? | EUROtoday

C ‘is the story of a blinding idea, and a ghost writer. In a number of weeks, the phrase “hypnocracy” imposed itself in public debate: Figaro has Humanitypassing by way of the TV units. Behind this neologism, the need to call an insidious regime, particular to our time: an influence which not represses, however which saturates. Who doesn’t censor, however overwhelms. Which is not imposed by drive, however acts straight on states of consciousness. “The hypnocracy does not control the bodies,” writes the writer, “it induces a permanent trance state. »»

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