The words of the day, the week, the month, the year, are Mass Formation Psychosis.
Mass Formation Psychosis is a phenomenon in which large parts of a society become fascinated by a leader and/or idea, fixated on them, and thus are able to be led in directions with little basis in reality.
Dr. Robert Malone used the term on a recent podcast with Joe Rogan that basically got the good doctor’s Twitter account shut down. Rogan didn’t escape unscathed, having the interview removed from YouTube and Twitter.
Dr. Malone likened our COVID hysteria, and the governments that are taking advantage of the situation to push the bounds of what infringements on basic rights the people will accept under the guise of fighting the virus, to the sorrow of Nazi Germany.
For the younger crowd who no longer are taught history, Nazi Germany was a chilling example in which many otherwise decent people bought into the ravings of Adolf Hitler and either accepted or ignored atrocities committed at his behest.
Flash forward to recent video of the woman passenger on an airplane screaming at, and assaulting, an elderly gent for taking down his face mask inflight in order to eat. Even as this woman bellowed at the guy, her mask was nowhere near deployed over her mouth and nose, instead looking like a support bra for her chin.
Why was this woman acting out like this? Because she’s bought into the COVID fear cult. We’re all going to die unless everyone gets vaccinated, boosted regularly, and wears multiple masks while observing social distancing and general isolation.
In her mind, the man trying to eat his meal on that plane was no better than a suicide bomber playing with the lives of all onboard.
Why someone so inclined felt the need to get on an airplane at all is an unanswerable contradiction, but not an uncommon one.
There also has been a report since of a Michigan woman flying from Chicago to Iceland who felt some throat discomfort, rushed to the bathroom with a rapid COVID test she just happened to have along, tested positive, and confined herself in the lavatory for five hours of the flight to save the rest of the passengers from certain death (not to mention making it more difficult to relieve themselves).
Could it be she just wanted some attention? Repeated video updates by her suggest so.
She also claims to have been fully vaccinated and updated with boosters. I’m betting she will survive, just like about 99.6 percent of all COVID sufferers.
There are reports that searches for Mass Formation Psychosis have skyrocketed after Dr. Malone’s Rogan podcast and Google has done one of its absolutely non-political, just-looking-out-for-you adjustments to search results to highlight attempts to debunk Dr. Malone’s take on our world and the COVID fear merchants.
I checked for myself. Upon using Google to search for “Mass Formation Psychosis” one is directed to LameStream media attempts to debunk Malone.
Type the same “Mass Formation Psychosis” into duckduckgo.com, the non-tracking, apolitical search engine, and the first hit you get is a generic discussion of the syndrome and application to investing. The big debunking attempts don’t make it to the top five of search results.
This selective search manipulation, along with the rise of “fact” checkers who would be more at home in the ministry of propaganda, hints that the ideas they try so hard to suppress just might have more than a smidgen of truth to them.
William Shakespeare identified the phenomenon long before the digital age in his play “Hamlet” with the line “the lady doth protest too much.” General meaning: When the denials become too fervent, often the opposite is true.
Already governments of the United Kingdom and Canada have been forced to admit intentionally overselling fear in trying to steer the unwilling members of the populace to COVID vaccinations.
If you think the United States isn’t just as guilty of this, you are extremely Pollyannish.
And lest you think Mass Formation Psychosis is a fairy tale, consider the example of Biden voters who still think they picked the right man for the job.
‘Nuff said.
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