{"id":202855,"date":"2022-01-10T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=202855"},"modified":"2022-01-09T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T06:05:44","slug":"can-we-transcend-covid-some-perspectives-on-mass-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/can-we-transcend-covid-some-perspectives-on-mass-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Transcend Covid? Some Perspectives on Mass Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mass psychology theories that shed new light are becoming popular. I will make an imperfect attempt to apply the TRANSCEND Method of Analysis, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy. <\/em><\/p>\n

The ultimate analysis must integrate dimensions beyond this article including political, economic, hidden agendas of Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Media, the Great Reset, transhumanism, surveillance, and control by global forces, known and unknown (\u201cMr. Global<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n

Context: Dominant Narrative Exaggerating Threats, Fear, and Hate<\/h3>\n

For deep context, consider that the\u00a0Amish<\/a>\u00a0in Pennsylvania, insulated from media and government, achieved herd immunity to Covid by May, 2020 without social distancing, lockdowns, masks or vaccines, and had the most profitable year ever.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the US propaganda campaign framed Covid as a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated,\u201d inciting hysteria, blame, coercion, and ostracism.<\/p>\n

Numerous tricks include defining \u201cvaccinated\u201d as beginning 14 days after the final Covid shot. Breakthrough infections, hospitalizations, injuries and deaths before day 14 are counted as \u201cunvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, hospitals get paid<\/a> $13,000 to diagnose Covid, $39,000 to use ventilators, and staff are pressured to record Covid as the cause of death<\/a>, including deaths from other causes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Massive censorship and suppression of life-saving early treatments<\/a>, estimated to prevent 85% of deaths led to wildly inflated death rates, triggering false beliefs, fear, and submission to lockdowns, passports, mandates and endless boosters.<\/p>\n

Captured agencies (CDC, FDA, NIH, NIAD, WHO) and media in global \u201clockstep\u201d proclaim \u201cvaccine\u201d safety and efficacy, suppressing underreported<\/a> data on injuries and deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Statistics from Israel, Gibraltar, Iceland, and everywhere reveal \u201cbreakthrough\u201d cases (vaccine failures), injuries, hospitalizations and deaths, indicating a \u201cpandemic of the vaccinated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We have a pandemic of fear, hysteria, dehumanization, poor health, racism, and domination by known and unknown powers.<\/p>\n

ANALYSIS<\/h3>\n

Promoting a <\/strong>Cultural Hegemonic<\/a><\/em> Belief System<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dominant narrative seems irrefutably true. Leaving out entire bodies of knowledge, it promotes a superficial belief that masking, distancing, lockdowns and \u201cvaccines\u201d are the only<\/em> responses.<\/p>\n

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Italian philosopher,\u00a0Antonio Gramsci\u00a0described how the ruling class wields \u201cinvisible power\u201d by manipulating ideology, beliefs, values and social norms. Incurious people, ignorant of facts, uncritically accept their worldview as a natural, inevitable, beneficial cultural norm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mystification<\/strong><\/p>\n

This resonates with R.D. Laing\u2019 mystification<\/strong><\/a>, <\/em>a\u201c<\/em><\/strong>plausible misrepresentation\u201d<\/em> of reality.\u00a0\u201cBy representing forms of exploitation as forms of benevolence, the exploiters bemuse the exploited into feeling at one with their exploiters, or into feeling gratitude for what (unrealized by them) is their exploitation, and, not least, into feeling bad or mad even to think of rebellion.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Mystification maintains stereotyped roles by masking truth with false constructions of what is actually happening and what a conflict\u00a0is actually about<\/em>, though people may not feel confused.\u00a0In fact, they may feel quite assured of their position. Laing concluded that \u201cbefore enlightened action can be taken, the issues have to be demystified.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The dominant narrative is portrayed as an absolute, undeniable truth accepted by all sane people. Those who challenge it are stupid, crazy and dangerous and must be convinced or punished.<\/p>\n

The US spent $10 billion on messaging, hiring behavioral scientists to convince the \u201cvaccine hesitant,\u201d with rewards and punishments.<\/p>\n

DIAGNOSIS<\/h3>\n

Mattias Desmet\u2019s Elegant Model of Mass Formation<\/a> and Mass Hypnosis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mattias Desmet, psychology professor at Belgium\u2019s Ghent University, with a master\u2019s in statistics, is on a meteoric rise to superstardom. He is deservedly the darling of many questioning the narrative including world renowned doctors<\/a> – Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA technology and Dr. Peter McCullough, the most published doctor in his field, cardiorenal medicine, in the world, in history.<\/p>\n

Desmet was puzzled by failed predictions used to justify draconian policies. British scientist, Neil Ferguson<\/a> overpredicted 2.2 million US and over 500,000 UK deaths. In Sweden, 80,000 deaths were predicted. Only 6000 died with no lockdowns. Policies were not revised with new data.<\/em><\/p>\n

He was troubled by the singular obsession with Covid victims, ignoring lockdown victims, and UN risk assessments that the lockdown would cause more deaths than Covid.
\nAfter 6 months observing irrational policies, Desmet shifted to his work on totalitarianism which emerges when social conditions conducive to exploitation are met, including:<\/p>\n

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  1. Social Isolation \u2013 lack of social bonds, community, loneliness<\/li>\n
  2. Experiencing life as meaningless, senseless\u2013 meaningless work, disengagement<\/li>\n
  3. Free-floating anxiety, not attached to a mental representation like fear of a lion<\/li>\n
  4. Free floating frustration and pent-up aggression<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I add unrelenting stress, fear, humiliation, envy, grief, betrayal, unpredictability, dread, insecurity, financial devastation, educational setbacks, inferiority, domestic abuse, trauma, helplessness, vulnerability, dashed hopes, and having one\u2019s entire social fabric ripped away.<\/p>\n

    Intolerable psychic pain threatens to turn into panic, generating an overwhelming urge for relief. A transformation<\/a><\/em> occurs when \u201cunder these conditions, a narrative, a story is distributed through the mass media indicating an object of anxiety, and at the same time, providing a strategy to deal with this object of anxiety.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

    This intoxicating narrative enables people to feel connected in a \u201cheroic struggle with the object of anxiety,\u201d<\/em> simultaneously providing meaning, a new kind of solidarity, a channel for pent-up aggression and \u201ca huge willingness to participate in this strategy to deal with this object of anxiety because in this way, people feel they can control their anxiety and social discontent.\u201d<\/p>\n

    People desire a strong leader to rescue them and tell them what to do. After 9\/11, Bush\u2019s popularity skyrocketed.<\/p>\n

    Mass formation overtakes individuality. 3 groups emerge, approximately<\/p>\n