Psychology of Mass formation - Covid
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Below is an interview with Dr. Mattias Desmet, a Belgian professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University who holds a masters degree in statistics.
After noticing some anomalies in the statistical analyses being conducted during the early pandemic, Desmet became concerned by the consensus narrative he was reading in the mainstream. In this interview, he suggests that a phenomenon of large-scale mass formation has risen from four psychological conditions that currently exist that are closing off human thinking.
Desmet postulates that people don’t necessarily act from an evil intent, but more a psychological process to survive these conditions that is 95% subconscious.
The four conditions that allow mass formation to emerge are:
1 Lack of social bond
According to a national survey in the American Sociological Review, 25% of people said they don’t have a single close friend. 75 million adults aged 18 to 27 comprising the millennials and Generation Z were lonelier than any other US demographic. It’s a psychological social media paradox: people are interacting together online with their avatars, but they aren’t their true selves. They don’t create the intimacy or vulnerability that comes from shared experience, thereby suffering from a crisis of lack of community.
2 People experience life as meaningless or senseless
In David Graeber’s book, Bullshit Jobs, when he asked whether people think their job is meaningful, 50% answered “not at all.” A Gallup poll from 2012 done with people in 142 countries revealed that 63% of respondents admitted to being so disengaged at work that they were sleepwalking through their day, putting time but not passion into their work.
3 Free-floating anxiety
Anxiety is generally connected to a tangible mental image, like being chased by a lion. But if people feel socially isolated and that their life has no meaning, their anxiety isn’t connected to a mental representation. This free-floating anxiety is creating a deep psychological discontent. In Belgium alone, 300 million doses of anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and sleeping pills are used each year in a population of 11 million. A study from the World Health Organization says that one in five people—over 300 million—actually have anxiety disorders. They not only have anxiety, but qualify as having disorders.
4 Free-floating frustration and aggression
People feel frustrated and aggressive without really knowing the cause of their annoyance and anger.
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Mob Psychology
When these four conditions are fulfilled, if a narrative is distributed through the mass media identifying an Object of the anxiety and providing a strategy to deal with that Object, mass formation can thrive. All the free-floating anxiety and anger, now turning into panic, becomes attached to the Object. Sudden connection through this heroic struggle together against the Object creates a new solidarity, a social bond that has been lacking, which in turn, creates meaning. People then feel that they can control their psychological discontent by participating in the strategy, even if it’s utterly absurd.
Participation in the strategy has nothing to do with facts; it’s to preserve this new social bond created by fighting together to defeat the Object of their collective anxiety.
By obeying the strategy, people can go from a very negative, isolated state to the polar opposite—a state of maximum connectedness. That creates a kind of mental intoxication that makes people willing to go along with anything, even if it is utterly wrong and illogical, or if they stand to lose everything that is important to them personally. They parrot the corporate narrative and adopt the same authoritarian, shaming language they hear from their leaders.
This is the summation of hypnosis. With hypnosis, attention is focused on a small part of reality narrated by the hypnotist. Just like hypnosis, people absorbed in mass formation are not aware of what’s happening outside the small focus of attention that the corporate media narrative provides.
Liberal Subsumption
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In 2015, mainstream media began creating a culture ripe for liberal mass formation. Corporate press began blasting the narrative that Donald Trump was the Object of their free-floating anxiety. He was given $4.96 billion in free airtime in the year leading up to the election. The strategy was to ignore the Democrat’s own election fraud, manufacture a story about Russian election interference, and move towards the suppression of the Object through censorship and calumny. They would not even speak his name; he became “45.”
I started breaking through my own hypnosis in 2016, after five years of investigating the Scott Walker regime and how terrible the press was during the corporate takeover of Wisconsin in 2011. Back then, in my world, Democrats were the good guys and Republicans were the bad guys. Along came the Democratic primary, and I started investigating Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Sanders’ record aligned with the party platform, which included clean water and campaign finance reform. Her record on water was not just atrocious, but deadly. Her Hillary Victory Fund proved to be money laundering. She was taking millions in dark money. But none of the Clinton Democrats wanted to hear it. Her supporters shamed anyone who disagreed or tried to hold her accountable.
It became clear to progressive Democrats that they had to leave the party in order not to support corporate fascism.
It was only through questioning my own party that I was finally able to free myself from the illusion that Democrats were the good guys. I saw how they are all in on it. It’s a big party and we ain’t in it.
When Trump became president, Trump Derangement Syndrome descended like a brain fog on all my well-meaning democratic friends. Now every bad thing that ever happened to this country started with Trump. Dem fanatics vehemently blamed anyone who dared not vote for Clinton for her loss. A plethora of Russiangate propaganda proliferated and the conversation about abandoning the people and the platform could not be had. Anyone challenging them were “Putin puppets.”
As my friends proclaimed Trump a “dictator,” I tried to get them to see the bigger picture: both parties are in on it! But they couldn’t acknowledge that Obama did many of the same things for which they condemned Trump. I argued with an old friend who would not believe that Obama stacked his cabinet with Wall Street. Even an oped written by Elizabeth Warren wouldn’t convince her to look deeper. She just stopped speaking to me.
Others called me a “deplorable” when I expected them to hold their party accountable. Nothing would open their minds to even discuss it. They cheered when Trump got thrown off Twitter, as if free speech was suddenly something we should give up to help them feel safer from themselves.
SOURCE= https://wcmcoop.org/2021/11/05/editorial-has-everyone-gone-insane-check-your-mass-formation/
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Dr. Robert Malone: "COVID-19 Mass Formation Psychosis" - Why So Many Believe the Vaccine Lie
The following was written by Doctor Robert Malone, MD, MS, concerning the apparent Mass Psychosis surrounding the COVID-19 "vaccines" and the public's inability or unwillingness to see the death and destruction being caused by those vaccines. . .
Begin Dr. Malone:
As many of you know, I have spent time researching and speaking about mass psychosis theory. Most of what I have learned has come from Dr. Mattias Desmet, who realized that this form of mass hypnosis, of the madness of crowds, can account for the strange phenomenon of about 20-30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative concerning the safety and effectiveness of the genetic vaccines, and both propagated and enforced by politicians, science bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies and legacy media.
What one observes with the mass hypnosis is that a large fraction of the population is completely unable to process new scientific data and facts demonstrating that they have been misled about the effectiveness and adverse impacts of mandatory mask use, lockdowns, and genetic vaccines that cause people’s bodies to make large amounts of biologically active coronavirus Spike protein.
These hypnotized by this process are unable to recognize the lies and misrepresentations they are being bombarded with on a daily basis, and actively attack anyone who has the temerity to share information with them which contradicts the propaganda that they have come to embrace. And for those whose families and social networks have been torn apart by this process, and who find that close relatives and friends have ghosted them because they question the officially endorsed “truth” and are actually following the scientific literature, this can be a source of deep anguish, sorrow and psychological pain.
It is with those souls in mind that I included a discussion of the mass formation theory of Dr. Mattias Desmet during a recent talk I gave in Tampa, Florida to an audience of about 2,000. As I looked out into the audience and spoke, I could see relief on many faces, and even tears running from the eyes of stoic men.
Unknown to me, someone recorded the speech and appended the vocal track to a series of calming images of natural landscapes, producing a video that has gone viral throughout the world. A link to the video, as well as some notes to clarify and supplement the talk are appended below. Many have told me that they find it very healing. I hope it may help you also
A brief overview of Mass Formation, which was developed by Dr.
Mattias Desmet. He is a psychologist and a statistician. He is at the
University of Ghent in Belgium. I think Dr. Mattias is onto something
about what is happening and he calls this phenomena:
MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS
So, when he says “mass” formation, you can think of this as equivalent to “crowd” formation. One can think of this as:
CROWD PSYCHOSIS
The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible "object of anxiety" and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object.
As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view. Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong.
Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance. A note: mass formation is different from group think. There are easy ways to fix group think by just bringing in dissenting voices and making sure you give them platforms. It isn’t so easy with mass formation. Even when the narrative falls apart, cracks in the strategy clearly aren’t solving the issue, the hypnotized crowd can’t break free of the narrative. This is what appears to be happening now with COVID-19. The solution for those in control of the narrative is to produce bigger and bigger lies to prop up the solution. Those being controlled by mass formation no longer are able to use reason to break free of the group narrative.
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A leader of a mass formation movement will use the platform to continue to pump the group with new information to focus on. In the case of COVID-19, I like to use the term “fear porn.” Leaders, through main stream media and government channels continuously feed the “beast” with more messaging that focus and further hypnotize their adherents.
Studies suggest that mass formation follows a general distribution:
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30% are brainwashed, hypnotized, indoctrinated by the group narrative
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40% in the middle are persuadable and may follow if no worthy alternative is perceived
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30% fight against the narrative.
Those that rebel and fight against the narrative, become the enemy of the brainwashed and a primary target of aggression.
One of the the best ways to counter mass formation is for those against the narrative to continue to speak out against it, which serves to help break the hypnosis of some in the brainwashed group as well as persuade the persuadable middle to choose reason over mindlessness.
Dr. Desmet suggests that for something as big as COVID-19, the only way to break the mass formation psychosis is to give the crowd something bigger to focus on. He believes that totalitarianism may be that bigger issue. Of course, after COVID-19, global totalitarianism may be the biggest issue of our time.
Copyright © 2021, Robert W. Malone, MD, MS
Permission is hereby granted to reproduce this work in its entirety and with author acknowledgement.
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