Covid Psychology
It doesn't matter wether the narrative is correct or wrong
Excerpts from Dr. Mattias Desmet appearances on various shows and podcasts. My thread about this at the time was heavily shadowbanned and I was subsequently suspended from Twitter for spreading these ideas.
Mass
Formation
has huge impact on individuals intelligence & cognitive functioning, and this was the only thing that could explain why highly intelligent people started to believe a narrative for which the numbers were in many respects utterly absurd. You need mass media to create mass phenomena at the scale we are experiencing now. Four things need to exist in the population for mass phenomena to emerge;
1) There needs to be a lot of isolated people who experience a lack of bond
2) A lack of sense-making
3, 4) Free-floating anxiety, and free-floating psychological discontent, that is not connected to any specific representation.
Then society is highly at risk for the emergence of mass phenomena. These conditions existed before Coronavirus. There was an epidemic of burnout. 40-50% of people working meaningless jobs. Record numbers of anti-depressant prescriptions.
Free-floating anxiety is the most painful psychological phenomena one can experience. It's extremely painful which leads to panic attacks & painful experiences. What people want in this situation is something to connect the anxiety to. They're looking for an explanation. And now, if this free-floating anxiety is highly present in a population and the mainstream media provides a narrative which indicates an object of anxiety, and at the same time provides a strategy to deal with this object of anxiety. Then all that anxiety connects to this object (Covid). And people are willing to follow the strategy to deal with the strategy no matter what the coast is (ie. losing individual liberties, mandates, using coercion, threats, violence etc.).
In the second step people start a collective and heroic battle with this object of anxiety. A new kind of social bond emerges and a new kind of sense-making. Suddenly life is all directed at battling the object of anxiety and establishing a new connection with other people. Sudden switch of a negative state, radical lack of connection to the opposite; to the massive social connection that is experienced in a crowd, this sudden switch leads up to a sort of mental intoxication. And that's what makes mass formation the exact equivalent of hypnosis.
It doesn't matter anymore wether the narrative is correct or wrong, what matters is that it leads up to this mental intoxication. And that's why they continue to go along with the narrative even if they could know by thinking for one second that this is wrong. That is the central mechanism for mass formation. And that makes it so difficult to destroy it because for people it doesn't matter that it is wrong.
What we all try to do to show constantly that the narrative is wrong, but for people it doesn't matter if the narrative is wrong. That's not what is about. It's all about the fact that they don't want to go back to this painful state of free-flowing anxiety. We should try to tell people we don't need a corona crisis to establish a new social bond. We have to look for other ways to deal with the psychological problems that existed before the corona crisis.
Mass formation is actually a symptomatic solution for a real psychological problem, and in my opinion this crisis is in the first place, a large SOCIETAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL crisis much more than a biological crisis. From the state of mental intoxication you can explain all the rest of the phenomena of totalitarianism. For instance, people see the victims for the Coronavirus but they don't seem to see the collateral damage of the lockdowns and all the victims claimed by the lockdowns. They are also not able at an emotional level to feel empathy for the victims of the lockdowns. That is just an effect of this psychological phenomenon. Mass formation focuses your attention so much on one point.
You can take everything
away from people,
and they will
even not notice it.
That is one of the major consequences of mass formation. Another consequence that is very typical for totalitarian states, is that people become radically intolerant for dissonant voices. Because if someone tells another story or claims that the official story is wrong, this person threatens to wake the people up. And they get angry because they are confronted with the initial anxiety and discontent so they direct all their aggression at the dissonant voices.
At the same time they are radically tolerant to their leaders, the people who pronounce the mainstream narrative. These people can cheat and lie and manipulate and do everything they want. They will always be forgiven by the crowd because the crowd seems to think that they do it for their sake and that's also part of the mechanism of mass formation.
"Continue to speak out. If other voices are available in the public space, then the mass hypnosis will be disturbed."
โDr. Mattias Desmet
The most important thing for people to do is to continue to speak out even if itโs just to say that you donโt agree with the mainstream narrative because mass formation is provoked by the specific voice itโs gotten used to.
Totalitarian leaders know this very well. They start every new day with 30 mins of propaganda in which the voice of the leader constantly penetrates the consciousness of the population. If other voices are available in the public space, then the mass hypnosis will be disturbed.
Mass formation is a type of mass hypnosis and has a huge impact on an individualโs intelligence and cognitive functioning. Around 30% of the population will succumb to mass formations while 30% will not. The remaining 40% will realise something is wrong, but may not understand exactly what, and remain silent. To show solidarity to the newly formed group, people within this mass formation need to participate, for example: in lockdowns; wear masks; social distance; or, accept injections.
It is almost as if the measures to defeat the object of anxiety โ Covid โ are really a way to prove to everyone else that they are a part of the new social group. Mass formations are similar to religious groups and the symbols of the new social group, mask wearing for example, are similar to religious rituals which members will โpushโ to ensure their continuation. A cult is a group or movement held together by a shared commitment to a charismatic leader or ideology. It has a belief system that has the answers to all of lifeโs questions and offers a special solution to be gained only by following the leaderโs rules.
The current mass formation facing our world seems to fit more with the description of a cult rather than a religion. Any new science that conflicts with the current cult beliefs cannot be accepted by its members โ they are closed off to new information. People become radically intolerant of dissident voices, those who challenge the official doctrine. These voices threaten to wake the people up and people within the cult get angry when confronted by the initial anxiety and discontent they experience. And so, the mass formation crowd direct all their aggression at dissident voices.
This is when cult members are able use the state to oppress dissenters โ we see powerful people using the power of the state to lockdown innocent people or using police to assault innocent people in the street. Ultimately, this can lead to a totalitarian state where the state exterminates people who disagree with them. In a classical dictatorship the population is not in the process of a mass formation, or not hypnotised, and that makes a huge difference. A hypnotised population or a population in mass formation behaves completely differently. A classical dictatorship usually becomes less severe, less cruel and less aggressive towards the population once the opposition is silenced.
In a totalitarian state โ exactly the opposite happens.
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