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| − | |description=An explanation promoted in 2021 of public reactions to the [[COVID-19/Response]]
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| − | '''Mass formation psychosis''' is a concept used to explain otherwise difficult to explain phenomena around public acceptance of policies taken in the name of [[COVID-19]]. [[Matthias Desmet]] applied the concept to [[COVID-19]] in Summer [[2020]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kQ3rz9Mj4 saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20211003084517/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kQ3rz9Mj4 Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.fo/R3EGy Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://www.dewereldmorgen.be/community/mattias-desmet-professor-klinische-psychologie-coronamaatregelen-onthullen-totalitaire-trekken/</ref> and it reached a much wide audience from [[Robert Malone]]. On the first of January [[2022]], Malone spoke in depth about it on The [[Joe Rogan]] Experience, reaching an audience of tens of millions, after which {{ccm}} swung in to action to try to suggest the idea had no merit.
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| − | ==Preconditions==
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| − | For a mass to form in a society, there a number of preconditions
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| − | * The society must be [[stress]]-ridden, i.e. it must be high in what Desmet terms "free floating anxiety"
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| − | * A large proportion of society must feel a lack of meaningful connection to the world, e.g. what anthropologist [[David Graeber] referred to as "bullshit jobs"
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| − | == Implications ==
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| − | A mass psychosis, once formed, bypasses the logical faculty. Its adherents are motivated by the desire to be members of a group with a purpose (even a non-sensical or impossible purpose). Rational arguments are therefore of very little use. Suggestions of returning to an "old normal", i.e. a pre-mass formation state, are particularly unwelcome, since the isolation and pointlessness of such a state inspired the mass formation.
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| − | ==Popularisation==
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| − | In 2020 [[Matthias Desmet]] used the concept of mass formation to help understand the public response to the authoritarian measures introduced worldwide during the [[COVID-19]] event.
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| − | It was widely popularised in December 2021.<ref>https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-psychosis</ref>
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| − | ==Cover-up==
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| − | [[image:Mass formation fact check.png|thumb|The source used for the [[Associated Press]] 'fact check' debunking Mass Formation Psychosis theory previously encouraged '[[behavioral nudging]]' people with [[public messages]] reinforcing Covid compliance.<ref>https://thepostmillennial.com/ap-writer-fact-checked-mass-formation-psychosis-theory-encouraged-cajoling-covid-compliance</ref>]] | |
| − | {{CCM}} acted in lockstep in early January [[2021]] to deny that the concept had any validity:
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| − | [[Noah Berlatsky]] in ''[[The Independent]]'' wrote that "the “mass formation psychosis” argument, like the anti-vaccine argument, is complete nonsense."<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/joe-rogan-mass-formation-psychosis-covid-b1990337.html</ref>
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| − | An anonymously published article by [[Reuters]] concluded that "There is no evidence to suggest a “mass formation psychosis” has occurred during the pandemic, experts told Reuters. The term itself is not recognised among academics, and modern research into crowd psychology has shown that crowds do not behave in mindless or non-individualistic ways."<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-psychology-idUSL1N2TN1RE</ref>
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| − | ===Terminology===
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| − | It should be noted that "collective delusion", or "mass delusion" are known terms in [[psychology]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220113071943/https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1997/05/22165008/p29.pdf</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100618214633/http://www.nber.org/papers/w14764</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131205053632/http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Review%20of%20Economic%20Studies-2013-Benabou-429-62.pdf</ref> There also exists the concept of the "Mass psychogenic illness", which is a known phenomenon and has it's own [[Wikipedia]] entry,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2022.01.04-032046/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness</ref> these are overlooked, and/or argued not to be relevant to the discussion in {{ccm}} reporting.
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| − | {{QB|Mass sociogenic illness is the "rapid spread of signs and symptoms of illness among members of a cohesive group that originate in a nervous system disorder involving arousal, loss, or alteration of function, where the unconsciously exhibited physical complaints have no corresponding organic etiology. "It occurs in the context of a credible threat that triggers great anxiety, such as an odor nuisance in a school amid fears of chemical warfare or bioterrorism. In standard psychiatric nomenclature, mass sociogenic disorder is subsumed under the umbrella term somatoform disorder and subcategorized as "conversion disorder hysterical neurosis, conversion type." In the literature, it is referred to synonymously as "mass psychogenic disorder (illness)" or "epidemic hysteria" and is distinguished from collective delusions by the presence of symptoms of illness.<ref>https://mefics.org/pmc/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20220113082525/https://mefics.org/pmc/ Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.fo/8DR4Y Archive.is]</ref>}}
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