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Dr Mattias Desmet: Mass Formation is Hypnosis-People Will Commit Atrocities For the 'Greater Good'
Dr. Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Ghent.
Excerpts from 'Peak Prosperity' with Chris Martenson, "Mattias Desmet on Our Grave Situation". December 2nd, 2021
Mass Formation – Crowd Formation
Professor Mattias Desmet came to the conclusion that society was suffering from mass formation or crowd formation. This is a specific type of group formation that emerges under certain circumstances. Society need to meet 4 certain conditions for mass formation to occur in society.
These four conditions are :
Lack of social bond. Or a lack of meaningful relationships in their lives
A large amount of society feel a lack of meaning in the world (for example, more than 40% of people within a society feel that their job was completely meaningless)
Free floating anxiety in society. And in some cases, anxiety that the society cannot point to a specific reason for what exactly is causing this anxiety (overuse of anti-depressants etc)
Free floating frustration and aggression.
If a society meets all these conditions, it will become increasingly susceptible to Mass Formation.
Main Stream Media Causes Mass Formation
If under these conditions, mass formation can be caused by the main stream media. If the main stream media was to push a narrative that indicates an object of anxiety and a strategy to beat this anxiety. These two narratives through the mass media are :
Main stream media tells society what the object of their anxiety is. The mass media identifies what the specific object of their anxiety is. (flu)
And at the same time gives a clear strategy to deal with this object of anxiety.
For instance, if there is an object of our anxiety (virus) and what the strategy to deal with that anxiety is (lockdowns).
New Solidarity – Social Bond Emerges
Regardless of how damaging the strategy may be, people engaged in this new solidarity with feel better about their own anxiety by simply engaging in a strategy (mass formation) regardless of the serious side effects of such a poorly devised strategy that the main stream media has created a narrative for. It’s as if everyone engaged in this new social bond are fighting a heroic battle together against this object of anxiety. They begin a new solidarity, a new meaning for life, a new social bond emerges over this heroic battle against this object of anxiety. Which they are all fighting in solidarity.
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