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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]]. | + | '''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{{cn}}, 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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+ | * The society must be [[stress]]-ridden, i.e. it must be high in what Desmet terms "free floating anxiety" | ||
+ | * 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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+ | 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. | ||
==Popularisation== | ==Popularisation== |
Revision as of 13:47, 12 January 2022
Mass formation psychosis (Mental health condition, psychosis, hypnosis, enemy image?) | |
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Interest of | • Mattias Desmet • Robert Malone |
An explanation promoted in 2021 of public reactions to the COVID-19/Response |
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[citation needed], 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 commercially-controlled media swung in to action to try to suggest the idea had no merit.
Contents
Preconditions
For a mass to form in a society, there a number of preconditions
- The society must be stress-ridden, i.e. it must be high in what Desmet terms "free floating anxiety"
- 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"
Mass Psychosis & You / Peak Prosperity - "This video explains why people you know seem to have lost their ability to reason or even be reasonable. Mass Hysteria, or psychosis is a very routine and well-documented part of human history." |
Implications
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.
Popularisation
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.
It was widely popularised in December 2021.[1]
Cover-up
Commercially-controlled media acted in lockstep in early January 2021 to deny that the concept had any validity:
Noah Berlatsky in The Independent wrote that "the “mass formation psychosis” argument, like the anti-vaccine argument, is complete nonsense."[3] 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."[4]
Examples
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McCarthyism | |
Witch | An enemy image used in the Middle Ages that was acted as a cover for expropriation of property, a forerunner of the modern day "terrorist" |
Related Quotation
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War/Generations | “People are hitting Google like crazy with queries regarding Jordon Walker, Pfizer and Veritas. As they did when I said “mass formation psychosis” on Rogan #1757, Google manually interferes with the searches, returning wishy washy “these results are changing rapidly” screens instead of actual links. So, now we have a pretty clear smoking gun involving collusion between Pfizer and Google to suppress the story. Then everything, anything, having to do with Jordon Walker, MD gets memory holed. Wiped from the internet, including the Wayback machine. And then the chaos agents, bots and trolls descend on all social media channels. Sowing doubt that Jordon Walker is even a real person. Floating paranoid conspiracy theories that this is all a big deep-fake set up of Veritas, O’Keefe and myself. Which of course get amplified by the usual actors. Now THAT is an example of Fifth Gen Warfare power!” | Robert Malone |
References
- ↑ https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-psychosis
- ↑ https://thepostmillennial.com/ap-writer-fact-checked-mass-formation-psychosis-theory-encouraged-cajoling-covid-compliance
- ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/joe-rogan-mass-formation-psychosis-covid-b1990337.html
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-psychology-idUSL1N2TN1RE