both situations were explained in perfect detail by the famed thomas murtin.t is going on here right now, frighteningly exact. he was writing about what power nationalism and world war ii held, but his words will make a better case than i ever could for what each of you needs to decide right now. this is thomas murtin from the chapter christianity and totalitarianism in disputed questions. a mass movement readily exploits the discontent in frustration of large segments of the population, which for some reason -- some reason or other, cannot face the responsibility of being persons and standing on their own feet. but give these persons a movement to join, a cause to defend, and they will go to any extreme, stop at no crime, intoxicated as they are, by the slogans that give them a pseudoreligious sense of transcending their own limitations. the member of a mass movement, afraid of his own isolation and his own weakness as an individual, cannot face the task of discovering within himself the spiritual power and integrity which can be called forth only by love. in