Dear reader, you might be consoled to know that in feeling completely fazed by the masked muppets you pass in the street, you are not alone. There is an explanation.
Dr. Mattias Desmet is a Belgian professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University who holds a masters degree in statistics. Please listen as he tells it like it is. https://youtu.be/IqPJiM5Ir3A
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. He suggests that a phenomenon of large-scale mass formation has risen from four psychological conditions currently existing that are shutting down logic and right reason.
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.
Anxiety is also the emotion which energises roughly a third of the population. The rest are energised by fear or anger. Take your pick!
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.
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.
If you’ve read any of my work, you know I believe corporations control both parties. I refer to it as “corporate fascism” and urge people on both sides to stop fighting as if your party is the “good” one and the other is the “bad” one. They are both in on it. Today the Democrats happen to be at the helm of authoritarianism, driving us into totalitarianism, and my well-meaning, left-leaning friends are urging them on.
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.
Nevada State Patrol guarding the pro-Hillary team at the 2016 Nevada Caucus. 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.
Even in New Zealand, who doesn't know people they'd thought of as intelligent and logical who became insanely anti-Trump? And wondered why?
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.
Smells like mass formation. - By Barbara With.
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Part II COVID in the age of mass formation
November 11, 2021
By Barbara With
If you haven’t yet, listen to the interview about mass formation with Dr. Mattias Desmet, a Belgian professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University who also holds a masters degree in statistics: PART I HAS EVERYONE GONE INSANE? CHECK YOUR MASS FORMATION
ONCE UPON A TIME, the U.S. had a fourth estate, made up of real journalists whose job was to keep We the People informed.
Yeah, we had one in New Zealand too. (Only it was to keep Us the People informed.)
We watched the news at 6 and 10, and read the morning and/or evening paper. The press were the government and corporate watch dogs, here to throw light down the dark hidey holes of power.
COVID arrived into a new world of no real press. Instead, social media broadcasts 24/7 and Mainstream Media is carefully scripted by corporations.
Here in NZ it's scripted by Ardern,Robertson&Co, Death Dealers to the Nation.
How we got here was gradual, but a brief look at the past ten years reveals the slow slide into our present culture dominated by propaganda.
By 2011, Roger Ailes’ right-wing Fox News was already notorious for the propaganda of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. In February that year, they were caught lying about the peaceful protests that were taking place at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Bill O’Reilly and Mike Tobin were making claims that we had been violent, while running footage of horses, gun play, and palm trees, none of which I witnessed in Madison that day. From then on, it was indisputable that “Fox News Lies.”
https://youtu.be/RClJ6vK9x_4
By 2016, most of liberal media was also under corporate control. Rachel Maddow’s needed voice of dissent morphed into propagating the Russiangate hoax ad infinitum. Clinton hitman David Brock and his Super PAC Correct the Record spent millions on shutting down the voices of her opposition. “Putin puppets” were born, and those who ran against the narrative were crucified. Trump became the Object of all liberal anxiety as left-wing propaganda reached an all-time high and never came down.
Jump to today’s health crisis. The virus arrived in a climate already rife with free-floating anxiety. Government lockdowns led to more isolation, exasperating the crisis of community and spiking frustration. As the deaths increased, in an Orwellian fashion people were not allowed to be with their dying loved ones in their last moments. Fear and frustration elevated into a massive global terror; no country was spared. This accumulating terror exasperated those already dealing with pre-existing mental health conditions and triggered a mental health crisis in the general population. In a study done by the University of Paris, children’s suicide rates increased 299% prior to the second lock down in November 2020.
Here in the U.S., Trump Derangement Syndrome was so deeply embedded in the liberal worldview that millions dismissed anything and everything the man said, just because he said it. Biden and Harris piled on, peddling the mistrust by saying they would refuse the vaccine if ordered by Trump.
Into this amorphous mess of human stress, Big Pharma, using Big Tech and MSM, broadcast the narrative 24/7: COVID is the new Object of our anxiety. The strategy to defeat it? Give up your civil liberties.
According to Human Rights Watch, at least 83 governments have used the pandemic to justify violating the rights of free speech and peaceful assembly. Chinese ophthalmologist Dr. Li Wenliang, who first warned about the virus, was criminalized for “spreading false rumors” and was only cleared after he died from it. When the U.S. was facing a shortage of PPE equipment, emergency room doctor Ming Lin was terminated for pleading on social media for better protection for his patients. All over the world, journalists, healthcare workers, political opposition groups, and critics of government responses have been attacked, detained, prosecuted, and in some cases killed.
Ivermectin, an award-winning medicine that has been used safely for decades, was reduced to a joke, merely because Trump suggested it. Since the time that Trump’s doctors used Ivermectin to treat his early stages of COVID, hundreds of trials have been conducted. Founded in 1987, the American Journal of Therapeutics concluded, “Ivermectin is likely to be an equitable, acceptable, and feasible global intervention against COVID-19.” But by then, the country was in full-on mass formation. Big Pharma couldn’t have this proven safe, affordable drug kicking its ass. They would not have gotten emergency approval for the vaccines and gone on to make billions off this crisis if there was a reliable alternative. Luckily for Pfizer, so many marched lock step to the propaganda that was dousing them, driven by their misplaced distrust of Trump, just because he’s Trump.
One comedienne’s career skyrocketed as she made fun of Trump’s reference to hydroxychloroquine. Yet in April 2020, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons released a 45-page report outlining the success using hydroxychloroquine in the very early stages of infection. In June 2020, they filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration to end arbitrary interference with the use of the drug. Another study done in August 2020 by the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan showed hydroxychloroquine reduced mortality by 50% and recommended it’s role in treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
In the midst of it all, the U.S. government gave Big Tech carte blanche to censor free speech under the guise of combating “misinformation.” For Big Pharma to keep control of the narrative, legitimate but dissenting views were taken down, sometimes accompanied by “fact checks” that were often misinformation themselves.
Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA technology, has been vaccinated and repeatedly states that he supports the use of the vaccine for those who truly need it. Still, hit pieces written by a new wave of David Brock-type trolls and fake “experts call him anti-vaxx and question his credentials. Those who even consider challenging the narrative are mercilessly mocked by subsumed Democrats like Keith Oberman, who called people who want to make their own medical choices “morons,” “idiots” and “losers.”
Outright lies broadcast on MSM, on the other hand, are allowed to proliferate. CNN, MSNBC, et al, all exploded with, “Joe Rogan takes horse de-wormer!” Even when he debunked it and threatened to sue, MSM allowed the story to stand, and some of my liberal friends are still repeating it. Others of us are watching Rogan grill CNN Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta on why his network lied about him.
In an article published by NBC News on October 14, 2021, data from the American Academy of Pediatrics showed that only a small amount of children who get COVID get seriously ill or die. Yet on October 30, NBC Medical Correspondent Dr. John Torres made the claim that 146,000 children have died from COVID. Considering the corporate sponsorship of the press by Pfizer and lack of credible data on the part of Torres, his report should rightfully be marked as “misinformation.” Who is going to do that? https://twitter.com/i/status/1450464402000556039
Now we’re moving toward an ethically questionable passport that gives Big Pharma the power to decide who boards a plane, gets into a restaurant, and anything else they so deem, based on whatever drug they demand you put into your body, or else.
Brave li'l ol' New Zealand, "boxing above its weight" again ...
If Trump had suggested vaccine mandates, Biden and Harris already said they would not comply. Democrats would have lost their minds over his demanding passports—Tyrant! Dictator! As it is, Biden, Harris and Pelosi all lied and said they would not—could not—mandate it. Now that Biden is the tyrant and putting forth the passport idea, it’s full steam ahead, and well-meaning liberals follow faithfully along. (PS Members of congress are exempt from the mandates).
Yep, we get it. The NZ National Party is keen on passports and mandates too, just like our home-grown Commie tyrant, Prime Sinister Minister Stalinda Ardern. It's more catching than Covid!
Some feel the idea of forcing people to get jabbed under these circumstances and against their will harkens back to Nazi Germany. But it wouldn’t be the first time the U.S. Department of Defense mandated experimental drugs without consent. A 1994 report entitled Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health? Lessons Spanning Half A Century reveals that between 1922 and 1975, hundreds of thousands of military personnel were subjected to human experimentation, often without their consent.
I know far more people who did not take the jab than those who did. Unlike the liberal narrative that they’re all deplorable Republicans, 99% are liberals and people of color. Some are scared to speak, considering that their “allies” who chant “my body, my choice” about abortion rights are suddenly suggesting outright tyranny for them: they should be denied healthcare, they should be put into camps, they deserve to get sick and die. What the Republicans and Scott Walker did to demonize teachers in 2011 is nowhere near as bad as what liberals today are doing to the un-jabbed.
Maybe all that's saved NZ from such nastiness - so far - is Stalinda's "Be Kind" campaign - thoroughly hypocritical as it is, just smearing jam over her bread of murder.
It is immoral that the same healthcare workers and fire fighters who supported this country at their own risk in the early stages of this crisis are now about to lose their jobs. Yet my pro-mandate friends appear to have no empathy: “They deserve what they get.” One actually said we need to take away people’s right to choose in order to “save democracy.” I kid you not. They purposefully confuse “anti-mandate” with “anti-vax,” and shrug at the thought of a segregated society where class is determined by pharmaceutical orders and censorship, and your medical decisions are public knowledge. My only hope is to believe this is mass formation, and not that my friends are turning radically evil, all at once.
Here Dr Desmet approaches the underlying truth of his utterly reasonable hypothesis: Satan is the source of this creepy syndrome and he aims to win everyone over to evil. Not all at once, of course - he's too subtle for that - but ultimately he wants us all in Hell and you don't get there unless you're evil.
Firing the millions of workers who will not obey the mandate is creating a different crisis. “They deserve what they get” doesn’t take into account the impact on, for example, New York City, where 2,000 NYC Firefighters didn’t obey, thereby closing down 26 fire stations in the city and putting thousands of firefighters out of work without pay and no benefits.
Forcing mandates to go this far is immoral. This is what tyranny looks like.
.https://youtu.be/UWQT0lOGAwg
According to Dr. Desmet, where this is headed could be truly terrifying. People are turning on their allies, family, and friends when subsumed by mass formation. They blindly support totalitarian measures like passports for the jabbed and camps for anyone else. Not because it makes sense, but because its safer to go along to get along than be subjected to the abuse incurred when you think for yourself and speak up against the narrative.
In these times of heightened anxiety and the drone of mass formation, safety is scarce. Eric Clapton recently came out to talk about the permanent disability he is suffering after his AstraZeneca shots. Sadly, the world piled on him, with Rolling Stone leading the charge with a cruel and shameful attempt to gaslight him.
If there is a bottom line, it’s hopeful. Listen to the open discussion with the doctors below who feel it is a pandemic of the under treated. They are hopeful about the results they are seeing repurposing other affordable, safe drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine in order to provide early treatment:
https://youtu.be/H31IJx-GNgY
Living under this deafening roar of propaganda from both sides, as hard as it is, we all have to admit that we simply do not know. There is no overarching expert in one place to give us the truth about COVID-19.
We beg to differ. There's "the truth" - and then there's Truth.
Your source can be as scientific or unscientific as mine.
Under all of these circumstances, supporting people’s right to choose is the only sane conclusion.
That's only part of the only sane conclusion - which is Jesus Christ our King.
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| Ecce Homo Hieronymus Bosch |
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