STORY AT-A-GLANCE -
In the video above, Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core
platform technology, reviews a theory professor Mattias Desmet, a Belgian
psychologist and statistician, believes explains the absurd and irrational behavior we’re
now seeing worldwide with regard to the COVID pandemic and its countermeasures.
Understanding the Psychology Behind the COVID Pandemic
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
A psychological condition of society known as “mass formation psychosis” is a condition
for totalitarianism. Under mass formation psychosis, a population enters a hypnotic-type
trance that makes them willing to sacrifice anything, including their lives and their
freedom. That’s what’s happening right now
There are four key conditions that must be in place for mass formation psychosis to
occur: Lack of societal bonding, experiencing life as meaningless and senseless,
widespread free-floating anxiety/free-floating discontent, and free-floating
frustration/aggression
Once these four conditions are widespread, mass formation can occur, which allows for
totalitarianism to rise and thrive
A key strategy to break mass formation and prevent totalitarianism is to speak out
against it. We also need to give those hypnotized a greater fear to replace the fear of the
virus with, namely the fear of totalitarianism and the loss of their and their children’s
lives, livelihoods and freedoms that go along with it
Dissenters need to join together, thereby giving fence-sitters who are not yet fully
hypnotized an alternative to going along with the totalitarians
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He calls this phenomenon “mass formation psychosis,” a type of crowd hypnosis that
results in literally converting a large segment of the population into psychosis. Mass
formation psychosis is the explanation for how the Germans accepted the atrocities by
the Nazi party in the 1930s, and it’s the explanation for why so many around the world
support medical apartheid and the destruction of the unvaccinated now.
It’s so irrational and inhumane, many have wondered how we got here. As it turns out,
the psychology of totalitarianism has been studied for decades, and the whole thing is in
fact explainable as a psychiatric phenomenon that arises when certain conditions exist
in a society.
The Four Base Conditions for ‘Mass Formation’
The four central conditions that need to exist in order for mass formation psychosis to
take root are:
1. Lack of social bonding — Social isolation was a widespread problem long before the
pandemic. In one survey, 25% of respondents said they didn’t have a single close
friend. The COVID lockdowns also contributed and worsened already existing
isolation. We were all told that any contact with others, including members of our
own family, could be a death sentence.
2. Seeing life as meaningless, purposelessness and senseless, and/or being faced
with persistent circumstances that don’t make rational sense — Desmet cites
research showing that half of all adults feel their jobs are completely meaningless,
providing no value to either themselves or others.
In another poll, done in 2012, 63% of respondents said they were “sleepwalking”
through their workdays, putting no passion into their work whatsoever. So, condition
No. 2 for mass formation hypnosis was also fulfilled, even before the pandemic hit.
Events that occurred in late 2019 and early 2020, such as the many questions
surrounding the presidential election and the initial COVID lockdowns, added fuel to
the widespread confusion and uncertainty, resulting in the next condition: free-
floating anxiety.
3. Widespread free-floating anxiety and free-floating discontent — Free-floating
anxiety refers to anxiety that has no apparent or distinct cause. Judging by the
popularity of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, condition No. 3 was also
fulfilled long before the pandemic, but additional fuel was piled on just before the
pandemic.
Many felt, and still feel, that “things just aren’t right.” Through 2020, it became
increasingly apparent to many that most if not all of the systems we depend on are
broken, and likely broken beyond repair, including our medical system, our voting
system and our judicial system.
4. Widespread free-floating frustration and aggression — This tends to naturally follow
the previous three. Here, again, the frustration and aggression have no discernible
cause.
How Mass Formation Allows Totalitarianism to Rise
When these four conditions are fulfilled by a large enough portion of society, they are
ripe for the picking to convert to a psychosis, being totally out of touch with reality,
which in turn leads to the rise of totalitarianism. As explained by Malone, when the
pandemic broke out, people around the world became obsessed with one thing: the
virus.
People everywhere thought about, read about and talked about the virus almost
exclusively to everything else. This singular focus, this obsession, having the base
conditions for mass formation already firmly in place, allowed for large portions of the
population to enter into a hypnotic-like state.
In that hypnotic-like state (it’s very similar to conventional hypnotism but with minor
differences), people lose their ability to have rational thought and judgment.
As noted by Malone, there is evidence that suggests at least parts of this psychological
operation were done intentionally, by “some entity that has financial benefit or power to
gain from doing this, which gets to the point of global totalitarianism.” Now, once a large
portion of a society is hyper-focused on and fused in their joint discontent and anxiety,
all a leader or leaders need to do to convince many that totalitarian control and loss of
their freedom is best for them is to:
a) Present a story in which the cause of the anxiety is identified, and then
b) Offer a strategy for neutralizing that cause
Social Bonding Is Key
By accepting and participating in whatever that strategy is, people with free-floating
anxiety feel equipped with the means to control their anxiety and avoid panic. They also
feel a strong bond with others, because they’ve all identified the same nemesis. As
explained by Desmet in the Peak Prosperity interview below:
“Because many people participate in the same strategy to deal with the object
of anxiety, a new kind of social bond emerges a new kind of solidarity. So,
people feel connected again in a new way. And that's actually the most crucial
thing.
If you look at the corona crisis and listen to the mainstream narrative, you will
hear that everything is about solidarity. You have to participate, you have to
accept the vaccine. You have to respect social distancing, because if you don't,
you lack citizenship, you show no solidarity. That's the most crucial thing,
always, in mass formation.
That's the real reason why people buy into the story, even if it is utterly absurd.
It’s not because they believe in the narrative. It is because the narrative leads to
a new social bond. That's the real reason.
There’s [also another] advantage. All the frustration and aggression can be
directed at an object. And that object is the people who, for one reason or
another, do not want to participate in the mass formation ...
So, you have this very strange situation where people start from a very negative
and divisive mental state; [they have a] lack of social bond, lack of meaningmaking, free floating anxiety and a lot of frustration and aggression.
They switch from this very highly aversive mental state to a symptomatic
positive state where they feel connected. Their life makes sense again through
this heroic struggle with the object of anxiety ... That's why people continue to
believe in the narrative, even if it is utterly absurd.”
Mass Formation Psychosis Is a Self-Destructive Condition
The crazy thing is that the story can be an obvious lie, yet those under this hypnotic
spell will believe it. The remedy can be utterly absurd, yet they’ll obey. This is how
totalitarianism is allowed to rise.
Of course, there must always be a common enemy that must be obliterated — the
“cause” for the peoples’ fear and anxiety — and under totalitarian rule, that enemy is
anyone who is not spellbound. The dissenters are the enemy. In 2021, the unmasked
and unvaccinated are the enemy.
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Mass formation psychosis is a very dangerous
condition, both for those under its spell and those who
aren’t, because the 'mental intoxication' that results
makes people willing to do things that are clearly
wrong and utterly immoral, up to and including
voluntarily killing their own families and themselves,
if told it’s for the greater good.”
If everyone would just get the experimental jab, COVID would vanish and everyone could
go back to feeling safe again. That’s the narrative. It makes no sense, it’s irrational,
inhumane and unscientific, but those who are in mass formation psychosis believe it’s
just that simple, and that’s why some are able to wish death on the unmasked and/or
unvaccinated.
So, as noted by Malone, “If it seems to you that the rest of the world has gone mad, the
truth is, they have.” A problem far greater than any virus now is mass formation itself.
It’s a very dangerous condition, both for those under its spell and those who aren’t,
because the “mental intoxication” that results makes people willing to do things that are
clearly wrong and utterly immoral, up to and including voluntarily killing their own
families and themselves, if told it’s for the greater good. In short, masses of people
become profoundly gullible and self-destructive, which is a frightening combination.
As noted by Desmet, in a dictatorship, people comply because they fear the dictator. In a
totalitarian regime, however, mass formation psychosis is at work, and this gives the
regime extreme power over the individual, as the people, when in this hypnotic trance,
voluntarily destroy their own families, their lives and themselves, along with the stated
enemy.
Is Totalitarianism Unavoidable?
Malone says that in his conversations with Desmet, Desmet has said he believes the
mass formation psychosis is so widespread at this point that global totalitarianism may
be unavoidable. He believes it’ll take over, as we’re seeing in a number of countries
already. So, what, if anything, can we do? A summary of suggestions are as follows:
• Continue providing true and accurate information to counter the false narrative.
Some who aren’t yet fully hypnotized may still be routed back to sanity. Speaking
out can also help to limit the atrocities the totalitarian regime is emboldened to
implement, because in totalitarianism, atrocities and crimes against humanity
increase as dissent decreases.
• Substitute fear of the virus narratives with narratives that highlight an even greater
fear — fear of totalitarianism. “Totalitarianism is a bigger boogeyman than the virus
is,” Malone says. “Losing control to Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum,
BlackRock and Vanguard is a bigger threat than SARS-CoV-2 is for you and your
children, by far.”
Desmet has tested this theory, and found you CAN break the hypnotic focus on
COVID if you’re able to refocus their attention on something that’s of even greater
concern to them.
• Join with other dissenters into larger groups. This gives the larger majority who
aren’t fully hypnotized but too fearful to go against the grain an alternative to going
along with the totalitarians.
• Build parallel structures within your local communities. Think globally, act locally.
Start developing parallel structures to heal the four underlying conditions that
allowed mass formation to occur in the first place.
A parallel structure is any kind of business, organization, technology, movement or
creative pursuit that fits within a totalitarian society while being morally outside of
it. Once enough parallel structures are created, a parallel culture is born that
functions as a sanctuary of sanity within the totalitarian world.
The Gravity of Our Situation
To hear from Desmet himself, listen to his hour-long interview with Dr. Chris Martenson.
As noted by Desmet, since self-destructiveness is built into the totalitarian system from
the ground up, totalitarian regimes cannot be sustained forever. They fall apart as
they’re destroyed from within. That’s the good news.
The bad news is it can be hell while it lasts, as totalitarianism built on mass formation
almost always leads to heinous atrocities being committed in the name of doing good.
There are usually few survivors at the end.
That said, Desmet believes this new global totalitarianism is more unstable than
regional dictator-led totalitarian systems, so it may self-destruct faster. He has just
finished writing a book, “The Psychology of Totalitarianism,” which is expected to be
published in January 2022.
Sources and References
Trial Site News May 30, 2021
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