I thought about posting this in the Coronovirus thread, but it is so fast moving at this time it would get lost in the thread, OSIT. So I decided to post in this thread because I think the information is important in trying to make sense of all the madness as it continues to unfold. And also at some point it may transition into another more dire set of circumstances, that may evolve/cascade into something even more impactful for society, that will again unhinge the psychology of the masses even further. Being aware of this information, and the ability members to pass this information on, may help and create some sense of sanity and understanding for those that are open to receiving this information.
Prof Mattias Desmet is a faculty member at the University of Ghent in Belgium, his area of expertise is in psychology and statistics. In trying to understand the coronavirus phenomena he decided to study what he calls the Mass or to use Gustave Le Bonns term The Crowd, he references his work several times in the video.
Some members may have already watched this video, I don't know, I don't recall any mention. here is a link to the Bitchute video it contains audio translations in English and German of the dialogue. For those so inclined IMO it would be a good video to download and archive to a library.
The Prof. speaks in English, with Reiner Fullmuch translating the dialogue into German. This is the opening dialogue after the introduction.
How Mass Social Phenomena emerges to create a Totalitarian Society - He gives examples of how this occurs.
Lot's of socially isolated people and lack of social bonds/bonding. If one thinks about the disparate social groups that have emerged. Let's say in the past 20 years or so.
A lack of sense of life (the increasing materialism, mechanization, eugenics, the trans humanist agenda. trans gender to name a few, my words)
What he calls a lot of free floating anxiety. (think priming due to 9/11, the 2008 financial collapse, the loss of jobs and income, off the top of my head, also the terrorist attacks, mass mowing down of people on sidewalks) He discusses this effect in more detail later.
Psychological discontent that is not connected to any specific cause, then this discontent enters into the mind of the mass.
So he reviews if you have these 4 things
Lack of social bond
Lack of what he calls sense making - I guess by that he means common sense, the ability to discern facts from reality presented)
Free floating anxiety
Psychological discontent
Then society is highly at risk for mass phenomena, these 4 phenomena were present in the masses shortly before covid. There was an epidemic of burnout. where 40% of people experienced their jobs as completely senseless. he gives an example of this in a book called Bullshit Jobs by anthropologist David Graeber (book available on Amazon, haven't read it) and also this essay/rant he penned, which gave rise to the book.
STRIKE! Magazine – On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant
Just a snip
The answer clearly isn't economic: it's moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the '60s). And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them.
Back to the dialogue
Because of epidemic burnout, people working in bullshit jobs, the use in Belgium of psycho pharmaceuticals was high and demonstrated how much discontent was present in society. In Belgium a population of 11 Million people, over 300 million doses
of antidepressants were prescribed.
He goes on to discuss what he terms Free Floating Anxiety. It is the most psychological phenomena a person can experience leads to panic attacks and all sorts of painful experiences (this made me think about triggering suppressed traumatic emotional and physical past experiences, causing a psychotic break with reality)
People look for explanations for their free floating anxiety and now if this free floating anxiety is highly present in society the Media provides a narrative which indicates an object for their anxiety, and at the same time describes a strategy to deal with this object, as a result of this free floating anxiety...My words Jabs
Then all the anxiety, connects to this anxiety and people are willing to follow this strategy to deal with this anxiety, no matter the cost is (lost of jobs, jab injury, loss of lives).
This is what happens at the beginning of Mass/crowd formation.
In a second step, people start a collective an heroic battle with the object of this anxiety (remember the health care gorcery store heroes, people clapping outside their home in support, prompted by social media). Then with this a new kind of social bond emerges and a new kind of making sense of the anxiety. Suddenly the objec of life is to battle this anxiety and an establishment of a new connection with society, and also a new connection with other people. It does not matter anymore if the narrative is correct or wrong, even blatantly wrong. I matters that this mental intoxication, that is why the mass/crowd goes along with the narrative, even is they were aware, thinking for one second that the narrative is wrong (reminds me of the Asch conformity experiments).
This is the central mechanism of Mass formation that makes it so difficult to DESTROY IT. Because for the vast majority of people it does not matter. Many of us try constantly to to show the narrative is wrong, but for the Mass that is not what it is about, it is the fact they do not want to go back to this state of free floating anxiety (and the trauma that was induced, my words).
He then goes on to discuss strategies, I think these strategies would only apply to a collective, a thinking mass of people that can convey to those that are open, a rational, objective, intelligent, truthful and knowledgeable explanation of how and why we are living in this time of mass hysteria and psychosis.
The first thing is to make society understand how this Mass psychology occurs and how this can be counteracted (my words, added for clarity with some help of the Prof, understanding his dialogue, he is not an English speaker).
COVID is a psychological crisis and not a biological crisis.
I could post much more of this dialogue. but I think a person, really needs to listen to the whole video interview and dialogue and think, after listening to the first 10-12 mins of the video one can get a snap shot of the dilemma we are facing.
Not sure if this could also be posted in the work, it would be a valuable resource IMO. He gives references to other authors of books that are useful resources. If so please moderators move this post to a more appropriate area.
The thing about the number 40% comes to mind, I have a skimming interest, it made me think about Drabrowski theory of Social disintegration, and also the effect of mass hypnosis, how may are immune to this process. There are numbers thrown around of 80% og the population that have received the jab. Could a more realistic figure be 60/40%
Anyway, those are my thoughts. The video is a trove of information IMO
Prof Mattias Desmet is a faculty member at the University of Ghent in Belgium, his area of expertise is in psychology and statistics. In trying to understand the coronavirus phenomena he decided to study what he calls the Mass or to use Gustave Le Bonns term The Crowd, he references his work several times in the video.
Some members may have already watched this video, I don't know, I don't recall any mention. here is a link to the Bitchute video it contains audio translations in English and German of the dialogue. For those so inclined IMO it would be a good video to download and archive to a library.
The Prof. speaks in English, with Reiner Fullmuch translating the dialogue into German. This is the opening dialogue after the introduction.
How Mass Social Phenomena emerges to create a Totalitarian Society - He gives examples of how this occurs.
Lot's of socially isolated people and lack of social bonds/bonding. If one thinks about the disparate social groups that have emerged. Let's say in the past 20 years or so.
A lack of sense of life (the increasing materialism, mechanization, eugenics, the trans humanist agenda. trans gender to name a few, my words)
What he calls a lot of free floating anxiety. (think priming due to 9/11, the 2008 financial collapse, the loss of jobs and income, off the top of my head, also the terrorist attacks, mass mowing down of people on sidewalks) He discusses this effect in more detail later.
Psychological discontent that is not connected to any specific cause, then this discontent enters into the mind of the mass.
So he reviews if you have these 4 things
Lack of social bond
Lack of what he calls sense making - I guess by that he means common sense, the ability to discern facts from reality presented)
Free floating anxiety
Psychological discontent
Then society is highly at risk for mass phenomena, these 4 phenomena were present in the masses shortly before covid. There was an epidemic of burnout. where 40% of people experienced their jobs as completely senseless. he gives an example of this in a book called Bullshit Jobs by anthropologist David Graeber (book available on Amazon, haven't read it) and also this essay/rant he penned, which gave rise to the book.
STRIKE! Magazine – On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant
Just a snip
The answer clearly isn't economic: it's moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the '60s). And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them.
Back to the dialogue
Because of epidemic burnout, people working in bullshit jobs, the use in Belgium of psycho pharmaceuticals was high and demonstrated how much discontent was present in society. In Belgium a population of 11 Million people, over 300 million doses
of antidepressants were prescribed.
He goes on to discuss what he terms Free Floating Anxiety. It is the most psychological phenomena a person can experience leads to panic attacks and all sorts of painful experiences (this made me think about triggering suppressed traumatic emotional and physical past experiences, causing a psychotic break with reality)
People look for explanations for their free floating anxiety and now if this free floating anxiety is highly present in society the Media provides a narrative which indicates an object for their anxiety, and at the same time describes a strategy to deal with this object, as a result of this free floating anxiety...My words Jabs
Then all the anxiety, connects to this anxiety and people are willing to follow this strategy to deal with this anxiety, no matter the cost is (lost of jobs, jab injury, loss of lives).
This is what happens at the beginning of Mass/crowd formation.
In a second step, people start a collective an heroic battle with the object of this anxiety (remember the health care gorcery store heroes, people clapping outside their home in support, prompted by social media). Then with this a new kind of social bond emerges and a new kind of making sense of the anxiety. Suddenly the objec of life is to battle this anxiety and an establishment of a new connection with society, and also a new connection with other people. It does not matter anymore if the narrative is correct or wrong, even blatantly wrong. I matters that this mental intoxication, that is why the mass/crowd goes along with the narrative, even is they were aware, thinking for one second that the narrative is wrong (reminds me of the Asch conformity experiments).
This is the central mechanism of Mass formation that makes it so difficult to DESTROY IT. Because for the vast majority of people it does not matter. Many of us try constantly to to show the narrative is wrong, but for the Mass that is not what it is about, it is the fact they do not want to go back to this state of free floating anxiety (and the trauma that was induced, my words).
He then goes on to discuss strategies, I think these strategies would only apply to a collective, a thinking mass of people that can convey to those that are open, a rational, objective, intelligent, truthful and knowledgeable explanation of how and why we are living in this time of mass hysteria and psychosis.
The first thing is to make society understand how this Mass psychology occurs and how this can be counteracted (my words, added for clarity with some help of the Prof, understanding his dialogue, he is not an English speaker).
COVID is a psychological crisis and not a biological crisis.
I could post much more of this dialogue. but I think a person, really needs to listen to the whole video interview and dialogue and think, after listening to the first 10-12 mins of the video one can get a snap shot of the dilemma we are facing.
Not sure if this could also be posted in the work, it would be a valuable resource IMO. He gives references to other authors of books that are useful resources. If so please moderators move this post to a more appropriate area.
The thing about the number 40% comes to mind, I have a skimming interest, it made me think about Drabrowski theory of Social disintegration, and also the effect of mass hypnosis, how may are immune to this process. There are numbers thrown around of 80% og the population that have received the jab. Could a more realistic figure be 60/40%
Anyway, those are my thoughts. The video is a trove of information IMO