Smart people want to know: Why do so many people still buy into the patently unscientific and false narrative of the Covid regime? A Belgian psychologist, Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, has proposed that what we’re witnessing is a phenomenon that he refers to as “Mass Formation”. What he’s describing with this somewhat opaque term (in English) is a type of mass social hypnosis in which the mass of the population seems to share a “collective unconsciousness”—an obliviousness to reality and even a collective hostility to attempts to introduce them back into a relation to the real world. There’s an interview with Desmet on Youtube in which he presents his ideas, as an explantion for the strange psychological state of so many people under the Covid regime. The interview is about an hour and a quarter long, and you can watch it here:
Great article. Also check this out if you're in the mood to be scared, and entertained by something that is simultaneously funny: plainsenseandsanity.substack.com - tks.
I hope everybody watches at least one of the videos of Desmet. I saw them a few weeks ago when looking for for discussion about the modern left as some form of psychological phenomenon, which I think it is. I am inclined to think that hypnosis plays a role, as Desmet discusses.
In my estimation, it’s about “unquestioned authority”. Some swallow “experts” and other “authorities” whole, especially when an element of fear is introduced. Panicked by the unknown, they look to an “authority” to tell them what to do. Once committed to the “authority’s” point of view and instructions, they are fearful about questioning them and using their own minds to determine what is actually correct...
"Dr. Peter McCullough: The COVID shot is a form of ‘bioterrorism,’ its spike protein is ‘pathogenic’"
‘You are about five times as likely to die of the vaccine than you are to take your risks with COVID-19,’ McCullough said. Therefore, those who ‘chose not to get the vaccine,’ in fact ‘made a smarter choice.’
"Smart people want to know: Why do so many people still buy into the patently unscientific and false narrative of the Covid regime?"
The "smart people" should be smart enough to know that the ones buying into the phony Covid narrative don't believe in God. And because they don't believe in God, they are scared shittumless to die.
This reminded me of the Jonestown Massacre without the suicides. Those true believers in what was being prophesied/sold to the willing and weak minded who were incessantly prodded or strong-armed by a government medical establishment in league with politicians and pharmaceutical corporations to be injected with a serum of dubious value whose long term effects on them was unknown.
In my lifetime I've witnessed two of the biggest scandals in our nation's history. First was the Russian Hoax facilitated by Hillary Clinton followed by the Covid-19 'pandemic' where government entities propagandized the threat of a virus with a 99% survivable rate as the Grim Reaper. I'm amazed at the gullibility of supposedly intelligent people...
Sounds a bit like Hannah Arendt when she wrote about how she believed ordinary people could become players/victims of totalitarian systems. Also interesting because the last time I experienced a floating fear of a possible virus was during the AIDS crisis in the 80s, after my University when casual relations were common. And who instilled the same level of fear in society over AIDS transmission? Gosh, Dr Fauci….for saying that it was a kissing disease easily spread. Well we know now that this was hogwash.
And it could be that we are all being manipulated by both sides. I'd like to think I'm open to facts and arguments that conflict with my narrative but it's very possibile ive been captured by posts, stories, videos etc all aimed at manipulating me into blaming the other side. Maybe the only difference is my desire to ne left alone rather than force others to be jabbed, wear a mask, stay home, parrot pc nostrums.
So bottom line covidmania - like the climate change hysteria - is basically a false religion. The Bible speaks on this extensively, that in The End Times false religions abound & men are worshippers of themselves.
I too sensed the evil early on & as this whole thing continues to unfold it becomes more & more pronounced as their desperation grows.
Great article. Also check this out if you're in the mood to be scared, and entertained by something that is simultaneously funny: plainsenseandsanity.substack.com - tks.
I always come back to The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis.
Take the time to watch it and you'll end up fairly immune to BS.
Wonder what the correlation between receiving the covid jabs and the susceptibility to "Mass Formation" might be? Intended side effect?
I hope everybody watches at least one of the videos of Desmet. I saw them a few weeks ago when looking for for discussion about the modern left as some form of psychological phenomenon, which I think it is. I am inclined to think that hypnosis plays a role, as Desmet discusses.
In my estimation, it’s about “unquestioned authority”. Some swallow “experts” and other “authorities” whole, especially when an element of fear is introduced. Panicked by the unknown, they look to an “authority” to tell them what to do. Once committed to the “authority’s” point of view and instructions, they are fearful about questioning them and using their own minds to determine what is actually correct...
"Dr. Peter McCullough: The COVID shot is a form of ‘bioterrorism,’ its spike protein is ‘pathogenic’"
‘You are about five times as likely to die of the vaccine than you are to take your risks with COVID-19,’ McCullough said. Therefore, those who ‘chose not to get the vaccine,’ in fact ‘made a smarter choice.’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-jabs-came-from-bioterrorism/
"Smart people want to know: Why do so many people still buy into the patently unscientific and false narrative of the Covid regime?"
The "smart people" should be smart enough to know that the ones buying into the phony Covid narrative don't believe in God. And because they don't believe in God, they are scared shittumless to die.
Simple as that.
This reminded me of the Jonestown Massacre without the suicides. Those true believers in what was being prophesied/sold to the willing and weak minded who were incessantly prodded or strong-armed by a government medical establishment in league with politicians and pharmaceutical corporations to be injected with a serum of dubious value whose long term effects on them was unknown.
In my lifetime I've witnessed two of the biggest scandals in our nation's history. First was the Russian Hoax facilitated by Hillary Clinton followed by the Covid-19 'pandemic' where government entities propagandized the threat of a virus with a 99% survivable rate as the Grim Reaper. I'm amazed at the gullibility of supposedly intelligent people...
Sounds a bit like Hannah Arendt when she wrote about how she believed ordinary people could become players/victims of totalitarian systems. Also interesting because the last time I experienced a floating fear of a possible virus was during the AIDS crisis in the 80s, after my University when casual relations were common. And who instilled the same level of fear in society over AIDS transmission? Gosh, Dr Fauci….for saying that it was a kissing disease easily spread. Well we know now that this was hogwash.
And it could be that we are all being manipulated by both sides. I'd like to think I'm open to facts and arguments that conflict with my narrative but it's very possibile ive been captured by posts, stories, videos etc all aimed at manipulating me into blaming the other side. Maybe the only difference is my desire to ne left alone rather than force others to be jabbed, wear a mask, stay home, parrot pc nostrums.
So bottom line covidmania - like the climate change hysteria - is basically a false religion. The Bible speaks on this extensively, that in The End Times false religions abound & men are worshippers of themselves.
I too sensed the evil early on & as this whole thing continues to unfold it becomes more & more pronounced as their desperation grows.