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MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS or... mass hypnosis- the madness of crowds
Substack ^ | 9 Dec, 2021 | Robert W Malone MD, MS

Posted on 09/03/2022 2:08:41 PM PDT by MtnClimber

As many of you know, I have spent time researching and speaking about mass psychosis theory. Most of what I have learned has come from Dr. Mattias Desmet, who realized that this form of mass hypnosis, of the madness of crowds, can account for the strange phenomenon of about 20-30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative concerning the safety and effectiveness of the genetic vaccines, and both propagated and enforced by politicians, science bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies and legacy media.

What one observes with the mass hypnosis is that a large fraction of the population is completely unable to process new scientific data and facts demonstrating that they have been misled about the effectiveness and adverse impacts of mandatory mask use, lockdowns, and genetic vaccines that cause people’s bodies to make large amounts of biologically active coronavirus Spike protein.

These hypnotized by this process are unable to recognize the lies and misrepresentations they are being bombarded with on a daily basis, and actively attack anyone who has the temerity to share information with them which contradicts the propaganda that they have come to embrace. And for those whose families and social networks have been torn apart by this process, and who find that close relatives and friends have ghosted them because they question the officially endorsed “truth” and are actually following the scientific literature, this can be a source of deep anguish, sorrow and psychological pain.

It is with those souls in mind that I included a discussion of the mass formation theory of Dr. Mattias Desmet during a recent talk I gave in Tampa, Florida to an audience of about 2,000. As I looked out into the audience and spoke, I could see relief on many faces, and even tears running from the eyes of stoic men.

Unknown to me, someone recorded the speech and appended the vocal track to a series of calming images of natural landscapes, producing a video that has gone viral throughout the world. A link to the video, as well as some notes to clarify and supplement the talk are appended below. Many have told me that they find it very healing. I hope it may help you also.

A brief overview of Mass Formation, which was developed by Dr. Mattias Desmet. He is a psychologist and a statistician. He is at the University of Ghent in Belgium. I think Dr. Mattias is onto something about what is happening and he calls this phenomena:

MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS

So, when he says “mass” formation, you can think of this as equivalent to “crowd” formation. One can think of this as:

CROWD PSYCHOSIS

The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible "object of anxiety" and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object.

As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view. Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong.

Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance. A note: mass formation is different from group think. There are easy ways to fix group think by just bringing in dissenting voices and making sure you give them platforms. It isn’t so easy with mass formation. Even when the narrative falls apart, cracks in the strategy clearly aren’t solving the issue, the hypnotized crowd can’t break free of the narrative. This is what appears to be happening now with COVID-19. The solution for those in control of the narrative is to produce bigger and bigger lies to prop up the solution. Those being controlled by mass formation no longer are able to use reason to break free of the group narrative.

Of course, the obvious example of mass formation is Germany in the 1930s and 40s. How could the German people who were highly educated, very liberal in the classic sense; western thinking people… how could they go so crazy and do what they did to the Jews? How could this happen?

To a civilized people? A leader of a mass formation movement will use the platform to continue to pump the group with new information to focus on. In the case of COVID-19, I like to use the term “fear porn.” Leaders, through main stream media and government channels continuously feed the “beast” with more messaging that focus and further hypnotize their adherents.

Studies suggest that mass formation follows a general distribution:

30% are brainwashed, hypnotized, indoctrinated by the group narrative

40% in the middle are persuadable and may follow if no worthy alternative is perceived

30% fight against the narrative.

Those that rebel and fight against the narrative, become the enemy of the brainwashed and a primary target of aggression.

One of the the best ways to counter mass formation is for those against the narrative to continue to speak out against it, which serves to help break the hypnosis of some in the brainwashed group as well as persuade the persuadable middle to choose reason over mindlessness.

Dr. Desmet suggests that for something as big as COVID-19, the only way to break the mass formation psychosis is to give the crowd something bigger to focus on. He believes that totalitarianism may be that bigger issue. Of course, after COVID-19, global totalitarianism may be the biggest issue of our time.

Copyright © 2021, Robert W. Malone, MD, MS Permission is hereby granted to reproduce this work in its entirety and with author acknowledgement.


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; drmalone; iylm; malone; masspsychosis; robertmalone
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1 posted on 09/03/2022 2:08:41 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

For those who have not seen this diagnosis if the illness in society. It is not just COVID, but leftist thought in general that infects society. If a person does not identify with their true gender, why do I have to lose my job if I disagree?


2 posted on 09/03/2022 2:08:53 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I was tell everyone to read The True Believer by Eric Hoffer.


3 posted on 09/03/2022 2:10:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Malone bump for later...


4 posted on 09/03/2022 2:12:25 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: MtnClimber

It’s just the fear of man. Only men of certainty will go against the flow.


5 posted on 09/03/2022 2:14:30 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m appalled at the number of people who think they can just wave a magic wand and transform our society to “green” energy. They have no concept of the magnitude of complicated, interconnected systems that all must work perfectly in concert to deliver low-price, reliable energy to your home, office, factory and gasoline station. These systems have evolved to a high degree of optimization, economies of scale, and complexity over 163 years (petroleum, Drake oil well, 1859) and 148 years(Edison’s Pearl Street Station, 1884).

People ignorant of science, engineering, and systems naively think 1) the world is going to catch on fire, 2) “We can stop the world catching on fire if we completely transform our industrial society overnight to be ‘green’,” and 3) opening ten times more mineral mines around the world in places that abuse slave and child labor and have no regard for the environment is a good thing.

The Mass Psychosis is strong with these appallingly ignorant creatures.


6 posted on 09/03/2022 2:19:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: MtnClimber

Dr. Malone writes “...after COVID-19, global totalitarianism may be the biggest issue of our time.”

He should have gone one step further here. COVID-19 is being widely used by tyrants all over the world to usher in global totalitarianism. COVID-19 is a tool to enslave all of us.


7 posted on 09/03/2022 2:22:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: MtnClimber

Fascinating subject.


8 posted on 09/03/2022 2:23:24 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You get it.

The damage to civilization from climate change extremism has the potential to be significantly greater than that from Covid. It could get very, very ugly, and in a short time.


9 posted on 09/03/2022 2:42:30 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“It could get very, very ugly, and in a short time.”

Exactly right. Few people understand that. End fracking and natural gas production and food crop yields plummet by 30% to 50% (no nitrogen based fertilizers). Mass starvation follows. End cattle feedlots and starvation follows. As CA shows, there isn’t enough power to charge the 4% of cars that are EVs today. Ban gasoline cars and people can’t get to work, play or shop. Large-scale electrical grids won’t work with nothing but wind and solar — power will be expensive, scarce and rationed. Houses will be cold in winter and hot in summer. People will die.

As you say, if all this hits the fan at once, it will get REAL ugly real quickly.

Due to mass psychosis, people don’t have a clue that you cannot disrupt existing, large, highly optimized systems without major repercussions, often completely unanticipated.

Just look at the massive disruptions to supply chains due to COVID and a lot of people staying home (needlessly).


10 posted on 09/03/2022 3:00:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Bump. Good comments


11 posted on 09/03/2022 3:02:29 PM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: MtnClimber

MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS or... mass hypnosis- the madness of crowds

First published in 1933 under the title of “The Psychology of Mass Fascism” by Wilhelm Reich.


12 posted on 09/03/2022 3:10:56 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Exactly right. Few people understand that. End fracking and natural gas production and food crop yields plummet by 30% to 50% (no nitrogen based fertilizers). Mass starvation follows. End cattle feedlots and starvation follows. As CA shows, there isn’t enough power to charge the 4% of cars that are EVs today.

No California Electricity to charge your EV/Tesla!

No problem just plug your Tesla into your gasoline powered generator to recharge it.


13 posted on 09/03/2022 3:13:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Looky there! A gasoline powered car!


14 posted on 09/03/2022 3:23:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


15 posted on 09/03/2022 3:59:18 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chanece favors the prepared mind.)
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To: MtnClimber

I had a big, possibly terminal, argument with my niece about this. I first read about MFP on Mike Adams site. He is the Health Ranger and sells some interesting stuff. that I buy occasionally. He presented it as “What do you think of this idea...” not as a done deal.

My niece was furious, said it was a Nazi idea and I shouldn’t have sent it to her as she is half Jewish. Big Sigh.

I think MFP ia or ia very close to what the covid nonsense is.

Just yesterday saw a woman driving an SUV alone wearing a sturdy black mask.


16 posted on 09/03/2022 4:27:21 PM PDT by Veto! (FJBsucksrocks)
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To: Veto!; MtnClimber

AKA a Mask Covidian.

We went to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band two nights ago. Ended up at the best table in the house, right in front of Jeff Hannah (wife got killer tix), but ended up with a Mask Covidian couple seated at the same table. About the only ones in the place.

It was all I could do to not say something snarky.


17 posted on 09/03/2022 5:02:15 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Veto!

Sorry to say but it sounds like your niece is terminal with MFP.

My sister and her entire family took the death jabs and 2 of the “boosters”. They refuse to even visit us anymore because of our differences over the insane idea.

I bet social media plays a huge role in MFP.


18 posted on 09/03/2022 5:52:43 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Interesting. Niece might indeed have MFP, as you say.

Had a lovely long talk this afternoon with Giovanna, a dear friend In Rome. She’s an MD and is really glad I didn’t get more than one shot. She believes in natural immunity too though her 92 year old mother just spent a week seriously ill with Covid.

BTW, I had one shot of Pfizer when it was FDA approved. Then I discovered that the FDA consists of ex-pharmaceutical company execs. Or perhaps even present?


19 posted on 09/03/2022 9:23:49 PM PDT by Veto! (FJBsucksrocks)
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To: MtnClimber

Mark forlater


20 posted on 09/03/2022 9:29:06 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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