By that measure, recent events show that normal people are indeed leaving the “slave” herd in large numbers on numerous issues including Covid, voter fraud, and parental rights in public schools, meaning they didn’t actually have “mass formation psychosis,” just bad information.
This shows that Objective truth widely shared is the antidote to totalitarianism.
It explains why people
with a genuine biblical worldview who see reality for what it is, and
trust their God-given powers of perception and reasoning, are immune to this manufactured psychosis.
And it shows us that the
cure to “mass formation psychosis” for those genuinely afflicted with
it will come when/if we finally break the Big Media/Big Tech
stranglehold on our public information systems. - Scott Lively
Today, lawyer and scholar Dr. Scott Lively showed what America and the world is experiencing and the cure for it in his post ""IMMUNITY TO 'MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS'":
On the question of freedom vs
tyranny, the sheep and goats are almost fully divided now in America:
we’ve never been quite this polarized because the Marxists have never
had this much power to use government to enslave people. That’s not to
say we’re the first nation to be “fundamentally transformed” in this way
(as the Great Divider, Barry Soetoro put it), just that it was never
expected to happen in America.
While it’s generally a very good
thing that freedom loving people are now united, there lurks the danger
of what we used to call “mob psychology” whenever people form
ideologically-based opposing armies. In wartime the phenomenon is called
“jingoism.” In two-party politics it is called hyper-partisanship. It
is the human tendency to self-suppress independent thinking and embrace
dogma whenever everyone around us is doing the same thing, And it is the
devil’s tendency and agenda to exploit the weakness in every human
system – especially systems vulnerable to emotional and perceptual
manipulation – and he always works both sides of the street.
“Mass formation psychosis” is a term
coined by Belgian psychology professor Mattias Desmet in his upcoming
book The Psychology of Totalitarianism to refine understanding of what
previously had been called “the madness of crowds.” Its use to explain
irrational mass-compliance during the Covid 19 plandemic has been
popularized Dr. Robert Malone, whose recent talk on the topic went so “viral” that Big Tech went into overdrive to censor it – and by doing so confirmed its validity as a concept and their own complicity in driving it.
I discussed the phenomenon on my Brighteon.TV program Prophecy and Politics
last week, modifying the term slightly to “mass formation hypnosis”
which I think is more accurate because psychosis is something that “just
happens” to someone, while hypnosis is something deliberately done to
him.
My point in this article is not
primarily to help spread the word about this important topic but to
caution everyone on the right that people on BOTH sides of a polarized
society are susceptible to mob psychology. My greater purpose is
remind/explain how an authentic Biblical worldview provides immunity
from this psychosis.
First, a word about jargon. Jargon is
specialized language invented to convey meaning among only those who
can speak it. Sometimes it is a legitimate and helpful tool for
expanding human knowledge such as when new observations in science or
technology cannot adequately be explained using existing vocabulary: for
example, the jargon of “quantum physics” to define the qualities and
behavior of newly discovered physical objects in deep space or inside
the atom.
Other times jargon is a tool of
social manipulation to shape and steer public perceptions and opinion,
such as the invention of the anti-Christian slur “homophobia” and the
lexicon (vocabulary list) of “sexual orientation theory,” designed to
frame disapproval of sexual perversion as mental illness. Likewise,
“critical race theory” – which is simply fake social science invented to
promote anti-white racism -- is a reinvention/revision of words and
meanings to steer society through mass psychological manipulation.
The so-called soft sciences
(psychology, sociology, anthropology. etc.) overflow with jargon, both
benign and malignant. Professor Desmet’s theory of “mass formation
psychosis” is a typical of the former. But this realm of social sciences
is where the malignant forms – of both lexicons of jargon, and
the human control systems they describe -- have been conceived, nurtured
and perfected as tactics of social engineering like bat viruses in a
Chinese gain-of-function laboratory.
Social science departments in the
temples of Secular Humanism we call our university system are the labs
where “mass formation psychosis” was transformed from simple
observations about crowd behavior into systems for directing crowd
behavior in service to puppet-masters. It is where propaganda and
entrapment tactics were perfected along with every other “science” of
human manipulation.
Dr. Malone uses “mass formation
psychosis” to explain the behavior of the left in their intellectual
surrender to the official Covid 19 narrative. I would argue that their
surrender to the LGBT agenda, especially the truly insane aspects of
transgenderism, is a better example.
I would also argue that the QAnon
narrative is an example of the same phenomenon on the right, and is very
likely driven by the exact same puppet-masters from their alphabet-soup
agency bunkers. (I’m still getting occasional emails from QAnon
holdouts – or agents pretending to be holdouts – predicting imminent
mass arrests of the Biden administration and its co-conspirators)
BUT, people with an authentic
biblical world view don’t need specialized jargon to understand what’s
going on in America or how to cope with it. The secret behind “mass
formation psychosis” is simply the natural human tendency to look to
authority figures for guidance when they lack enough information to
decide for themselves about something – OR, more importantly, they lack
the confidence in their own powers of observation and reasoning to trust
their own conclusions about it.
In a crowd situation where everyone
lack information, the tendency is to assume the group has knowledge that
you don’t, thus the “stampede” effect (e.g. toilet paper
hoarding). Once the crowd identifies an authority figure to trust, the
tendency is reinforced for good or ill, depending on the character and
agenda of the authority.
However, it seems to me that the real test
for “mass formation psychosis” is whether people revert to trusting
themselves once enough information is available to do so. The
psychotically deluded don’t accept evidence that contradicts their
delusions so long as their authority figure keeps them on the hook,
but normal people who start out as part of a stampeding crowd for lack
of a good reason to do otherwise and then discover a good reason usually
will then leave the crowd in spite of what that authority figure says.
By that measure, recent events show
that normal people are indeed leaving the “slave” herd in large numbers
on numerous issues including Covid, voter fraud, and parental rights in
public schools, meaning they didn’t actually have “mass formation
psychosis,” just bad information.
This shows that Objective truth widely shared is the antidote to totalitarianism.
It explains why people
with a genuine biblical worldview who see reality for what it is, and
trust their God-given powers of perception and reasoning, are immune to this manufactured psychosis.
And it shows us that the
cure to “mass formation psychosis” for those genuinely afflicted with
it will come when/if we finally break the Big Media/Big Tech
stranglehold on our public information systems. [Scott Lively's Mission Dispatch, January 30, 2022, Observations and Action on Current Events, History and Theology. Subscribe HERE. Contact/Comment HERE. DONATE HERE.]
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