‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ Admittedly Used by Governments as Tool of Population Control

Leaked details of UK government’s early pandemic response back up Dr. Malone’s assertions.

Dr. Robert Malone’s assertions about “mass formation psychosis” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic are underscored by the fact that authorities in the UK admitted to using “totalitarian” methods of “mind control” to instill fear in the population.

In Canada, the military also admitted launching a psychological operations campaign against their own people in order to manipulate them into compliance with COVID-19 restrictions and mandates.

During his viral podcast with Joe Rogan after he was banned by Twitter, Malone explained how the global population was being manipulated into remaining in a constant state of hysterical anxiety via mass formation psychosis.

“What the heck happened to Germany in the 20s and 30s? Very intelligent, highly educated population, and they went barking mad. And how did that happen?” asked Malone.

“When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don’t make sense, we can’t understand it, and then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point just like hypnosis, they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere,” he added.

On Joe Rogan, Dr Robert Malone suggests we are living through a mass formation psychosis.

He draws analogy to 1920s/30s Germany “they had a highly intelligent, highly educated population, and they went barking mad” pic.twitter.com/wZpfMsyEZZ

“And one of the aspects of that phenomenon is that the people that they identify as their leaders, the ones typically that come in and say you have this pain and I can solve it for you. I and I alone,” Malone further explained, “Then they will follow that person. It doesn’t matter whether they lied to them or whatever. The data is irrelevant.”

“We had all those conditions. If you remember back before 2019 everyone was complaining, the world doesn’t make sense and we are all isolated from each other.”

“Then this thing happened, and everyone focused on it,” stated Malone, noting, “That is how mass formation psychosis happens and that is what has happened here.”

Malone’s summary of how health authorities seized on the unifying threat of the COVID-19 pandemic and exaggerated its thread to create mass hysteria is backed up by leaked details of how the UK government manipulated its population during the early days of the pandemic.

As first revealed by author and journalist Laura Dodsworth, scientists in the UK working as advisors for the government admitted using what they now admit to be “unethical” and “totalitarian” methods of instilling fear in the population in order to control behaviour during the pandemic.

“Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid pandemic was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists”

⁦From ‘A State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic’ https://t.co/gD6HFUkQqW

The London Telegraph reported the comments made by Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B), a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) the government’s chief scientific advisory group.

The report quotes a briefing from March 2020, as the first lockdown was decreed, that stated the government should drastically increase “the perceived level of personal threat” that the virus poses because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.

One scientist with the SPI-B admits that “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear.”

The scientist further confessed that “The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.”

Another separate scientist on the subcommittee professed “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”

Another scientist warned that “We have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in,” adding “people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise.”

🗣️"Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government." – SPI-B member

According to the report, another researcher with the group acknowledged that “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon,” adding that “Psychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.”

Yet another scientist on the subcommittee stated that they have been “stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology” over the past year, and warned that “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative.”

“They have too much power and it intoxicates them”, the scientist further warned.

In addition to the UK government’s response, it was also revealed that the Canadian military launched a psychological operations program against their own citizens in the early days of the pandemic order to amplify government messaging and “head off civil disobedience.”

Mass Psychosis is a myth the same way military running clandestine propaganda campaigns against its citizens is public health. https://t.co/zeDThlGKJP

“Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public,” reported the Ottawa Citizen.

Meanwhile, following early efforts to bury the term altogether, Google is now desperately rigging its search results to return only negative articles about “mass formation psychosis” and Dr. Malone.

Google’s current top search result link for “mass formation psychosis” is a Forbes hit piece that recycles dubious claims Dr. Malone already debunked during his Rogan appearance.

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Obama’s government mind-control team issues annual report

By David Roberts@drvolts Sep 18, 2015, 9:00am EDT

In a classic bit of Chicago-style Alinsky-esque twelve-dimensional chess, President Obama waited until the eyes of the nation were trained on the Republican primary debate to unveil the first annual report of his new committee on mind control.

What? Mind control? Oh yes. Say goodbye to freedom, sheeple.

While our minds are still our own, let’s trace this story back a few years, as it is quite illustrative of the larger arc of Obama’s presidency.

Early attempts at government mind control were thwarted by Glenn Beck
Several years ago, I became temporarily obsessed with behavioral psychology and its potential contributions to the energy field. (See further reading at the bottom.) Insights into how human beings make decisions in real-life circumstances can help boost conservation, reduce waste, and ease adoption of new technology. I should probably return to the subject, as I think it will be hugely important in coming years, for reasons we’ll get to in a minute.

But first, a tale.

As part of my obsession, I interviewed Brian Baird (D-Wash.), a Congressman from Washington state who came to DC in 1998 with a PhD in clinical psychology.

In 2009, Baird introduced a bill, HR 3247, that would have created a program at the Department of Energy to study how the behavioral sciences might be applied to energy policy. It passed the House Science and Technology Committee in July.

That same month, ascendant right-wing radio host Glenn Beck featured the bill on his show, noting that it “doesn’t sound very American.”

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“That’s right ... now you carry the one ...” (YouTube/Fox News)
“They’re going to study us and find ways to essentially trick us into driving crappy hybrids,” he said, “and I bet that’s just the beginning.” Then he interviewed Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who said that the purpose of the bill is “behavior modification” (words that appear nowhere in the bill) to be coordinated by a “behavior modification czar” in the DOE.

The legend of the behavior-modification bill spread quickly through right-wing media. Conservatives — who would be tricked into driving crappy hybrids over their dead bodies — deluged Congress with calls and letters.

And the backlash worked. The bill was never put to a vote in the House. Baird, sick of this shit, left Congress in 2010.

It was all part of the great Tea Party uprising that brought Congress to gridlock and has kept it there ever since.

Obama is bringing mind control back
After conservatives made it clear that the door to legislation was effectively shut for good, it took Obama years to recover his footing. But when he did, especially after the 2014 midterms, he regained a great deal of lost ground, doing via executive actions much of what he was unable to do via legislation.

Among other things, in February of last year (while I was away on sabbatical), he assembled a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST) under the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The team, which emerged out of a 2013 research proposal, was charged with applying the insights of the behavioral sciences to improving federal policy.

The SBST just issued its first annual report (under cover of Trump!), detailing the results of various small-scale demonstration experiments it has conducted. You can read more about those experiments in the report or in stories from New York Magazine, NPR, or USA Today.

Along with the report came an executive order instructing federal agencies to get busy with behavioral sciences. In the words of the White House factsheet:

The Executive Order directs Federal agencies to identify programs in which applying behavioral science insights can yield substantial improvements; develop strategies for applying behavioral science insights to programs, and, where possible, for rigorously testing and evaluating the impact of these insights; recruit behavioral science experts to join the Federal Government; and strengthen agency relationships with the research community.

To begin with, agencies will focus behavioral insights on four areas:

Streamlining access to programs
Improving the presentation of information
Structuring choices carefully
Considering a full range of incentives
The SBST, in partnership with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), will issue a guidance to help agencies implement the order.

The executive order formally establishes the team and Obama’s FY 2016 budget increases its funding.

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The federal government, basically. (Shutterstock)
The right can barely be roused to protest mind control
There has been, as far as I can tell, very little hue and cry about the announcement on the right. The Daily Caller works in a few dark insinuations, but no high dudgeon. Even the Breitbart piece is pretty straightforward. The best I could find is a kind of half-hearted belch of protest from Podhoretz:

C’mon. That’s it?

Honestly, the far-right outrage machine seems a little exhausted these days. They can’t block Congress any more than it’s blocked. Their opposition to anything Obama does is so predictable that no one, Obama included, cares any more. And they can’t stop executive actions anyway, as their recent defeats on the Clean Power Plan and the Iran Deal make clear. So they just watch, stew, and think about 2016, when they’ll have a chance to elect someone who will reverse everything Obama has done.

Mind control will become even more important in coming years as energy decentralizes
The intersection of behavioral psychology and energy is going to get extremely hot in the next few years. As I’ve described in previous posts, the electricity system is evolving from a centralized, one-way model to a decentralized, multi-directional model. Customers will be producing energy, storing it, selling it, and shopping for just the kind of backup power they want (based on carbon emissions, geographic origin, etc.). Their appliances and cars and buildings will all be connected to and communicating with the grid.

It’s exciting, but also somewhat perilous. With all these new technologies and opportunities come lots and lots of decisions. Customers will be much more actively engaged with energy, rather than just passive consumers.

And here’s the thing: people are lazy. Decisions are exhausting. Generally, we prefer to minimize decisionmaking, not expand it.

Right now electricity is invisible, reasonably cheap, and above all, easy. Once a month you pay the bill. The rest just happens.

If distributed and clean energy enthusiasts want customers to engage more with electricity systems, they’re going to have to customers them into it. They’re going to have to make the process really, really easy, even fun, and include incentives that make it worth the effort.

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An unsuccessful interaction with home energy technology. (Shutterstock)
That will require some thoughtful product design, informed by good behavioral science. The interface between individuals and energy systems — not just technologies, but financing and business mechanisms as well — is the axle on which everything else in distributed energy turns.

If you blunder into consumer homes with a few misguided, poorly designed “smart grid” technologies (see, e.g., the disastrous rollout of smart meters in the UK), you’re quickly going to turn them off to the whole enterprise.

Traditionally, the electricity sector has been dominated by engineers and bureaucrats — not exactly the sort of people you’d turn to for insights about customer experience. As the smart grid takes off and new grid-edge opportunities open up, it’s extremely important that customer-facing programs and technologies draw on good behavioral science. Maybe Obama’s new mind-control team can give them some pointers.

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