Crowd psychosis

One aspect of the pandemic that typically gets little notice is the psychological side. In this one hour interview, Amy Peikoff speaks with Matthias Desmet, clinical psychologist at the University of Ghent, regarding the psychological impact of the pandemic measures.

In a nutshell, Desmet’s thesis is that the measures are creating a dangerous “social bond” in which frustration is focused on the dehumanization of the unvaccinated and anyone who questions the scope and effectiveness of said measures. We are now experiencing a phenomenon that he terms “mass formation” in which a kind of “mental intoxication” takes hold. Critical thinking is discouraged and replaced by unquestioning obedience and the adoption of transparently absurd rituals. If not stopped, he fears that this psychological conditioning will open the door to a totalitarian society.

34 Replies to “Crowd psychosis”

    1. What are the odds that McMaster takes away Tommy Douglas’s Masters Degree? It would be appropriate.

    2. Beware of eugenicists bearing gifts, in this case “universal health care”. Clearly he was playing the long game.

  1. On a similarly vein:

    The media used the virus to attack Trump.
    Now that Sippycup Biden is president… the media is using the virus to attack the “underclass”.
    Media is the enemy of the people, but at least they produce red pills free of charge.

  2. Breitbart’s take is the best. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/nolte-anti-vaxxers-hype-benign-transmission-numbers-as-proof-vax-doesnt-work/

    “The organized left is deliberately putting unvaccinated Trump supporters in an impossible position where they can either NOT get a life-saving vaccine or CAN feel like cucks caving to the ugliest, smuggest bullies in the world.

    In other words, I sincerely believe the organized left is doing everything in its power to convince Trump supporters NOT to get the life-saving Trump vaccine.”

    1. “This guys take is the best because I agree with him and my opinion is the best too!” -Antiq

      Who gives a fuck what some writer thinks the organized left wants? Seriously, who makes decisions about their health based on what someone’s opinion is on what someone else’s opinion is? Besides socialist retards like Antiq that is. You should change your screen name to Anti-IQ.

      1. I don’t actually agree with him. Trumpists have done this to themselves and trying to blame the left is idiotic.

        1. If you don’t agree with him why say he has the best take? I guess that’s your version of being sarcastic. Well played. Very good.

          Trump himself took the MAGAjab and has encourages everyone to get it.

          It’s blacks and hispanics who aren’t getting it for the most part in the US, and for good reason given their historical relationship with the US Govt. Hardly “Trumpists”.

          I guess when you have a limited ability to understand the world it’s easier to just see things in black and white. Orange man is bad so therefore everything bad is Trumpist, it’s just Science!

          Anyhoo, I could go on but you’re doing great showing your ass to the world all on your own.

          1. I don’t agree with it, yet that article showed a slight glimmer of self-awareness on your side. It’s a rare thing.

  3. And Calgary media cartel is doing “mental intoxication” propaganda with the fierceness of mass hysteria.
    You can’t listen, view or read without the cartel telling you, you are the problem so stay inside and submit.

  4. Well, Im sure you’ve all seen the NEW Vaxxine QR Code..??
    The one with a single upright digit signifying “compliance”..?

    That will be one of 2 new signs on the rear of the truck. The other:

    “Pfizer Jab is a Bio-Weapon
    US patents don’t lie
    US 7279327 – US 7151163″
    SARS – SARSCOV2”

    Fuck the NAZI’s and their Genocidal GARBAGE.

  5. Chicken/Egg Egg/Chicken. I truly believe that a vast group of individuals are not capable of critical thinking because the process has been discouraged in their education, and compounded by their adherence to agenda and ideology. So, what I’m saying is that the pandemic was not a catalyst of such a perceived “social bond.” They lack of critical thinking already existed and is merely being showcased on this particular issue.

    I mean, come on, men can’t get pregnant. But, the same faction pushing the vaccination have been conditioned to think so. Not agreeing makes you a bigot. The same premise applies to Global Warming. The same premise applies to men competing in womens’ sports. The same premise applies to basic economic principles. Yesterday, Biden said that passing a $3.4 Trillion spending bill will ease inflation and curb severe weather. Critical thinking suggests it will make the former worse and the latter unaffected.

    The China Flu didn’t create a lowering of critical thinking. It merely serves as a canvass to display their work.

    1. Certain Dostoyevsky had this idea that fits current ruling class.

      Tolerance will reach the limit where intelligent people will be prohibited to think so as not to insult the imbeciles.
      Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    2. Yes!

      Today I borrowed a neighbour’s truck and the radio was tuned to a talk show where some “public health expert” was going on and on about how in order to enhance our freedoms we needed to convince the unvaxxed to submit. Freedom is slavery you see. It feels like such a cliche but fuck man could Orwell have been any righter?

  6. People seriously questioned how a civilized country like Germany could embrace Naziism. Just look at Canada and the US in 2020-21 and the question is answered.

    1. Oh yeah, I stopped wondering how it could have happened when the climate emergency/change/warming/global/catastrophe/crisis reared its ugly, vacuous head. That was a fantastic wake-up call, at the best possible time. Made me realize simultaneously that they knew they didn’t even have to prove it – people are so hungry to obey they just slurped it right up and still do.

      Hordes and hordes of stupid sons of bitches, all looking for a Big Brother to fix everything wrong with their lives.

  7. The sheep will next be in line for their carbon credit cards, which will limit their movement, purchasing options, travel, etc. They will queue up 2 metres apart with a diaper on their face.

  8. My local hockey league decided over the weekend that the unvaccinated must wear masks on the ice during gameplay. All proof of vaccination to be recorded by each team’s representative and duly recorded on the game sheet so that the on-ice officials have a reference and can give a game ejection to those that don’t comply.

    Does anybody know a good place where I can pick up my yellow star?

    What an f’d up world. The psychosis is deep.

    1. I no longer get angry.

      I’m just going to let the blood clots and the compromised immune systems do the work. Not the prettiest of thoughts, but I’m a lot happier thinking in that manner.

  9. If not stopped, he fears that this psychological conditioning will open the door to a totalitarian society.
    ******************

    WOW sounds like a Democracy.

  10. I’ve talked to a lot of people recently and am finding a LOT of unvaxxed. And some of those people belong to churches with hundreds who haven’t had the jab. Or one has a friend who is among 300 nurses not getting the jab. As I jog through town or am literally running into a store, if I’m passing someone unmasked, I smile, nod and say in a joking manner “Hi. I tell people I’m getting in shape for the revolution…. No one seems to complain.” So many interesting conversations develop from that line.

    I’d still put my guesstimate number of jabbed at 65% or so of adults. I do believe this is a depopulation shot though.

  11. And history repeats itself once again. Humans will be human and probably less so now considering the infantilization of our society

    Of the book “Ordinary Men – Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” the New York Times Book Review wrote: “Helps us understand, better than we did before, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen but also how they were transformed psychologically from the ordinary men of the title into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history”

    Was easy to see this coming with the occurrence of CV as it created a faster easier path for people to follow

    Oh and socialism will work perfectly THIS TIME!!!

  12. Regarding history repeating itself, preparations for The Final Solution included:

    1. Registering Jews
    2. Segregating them from society
    3. Marking them (Yellow Star)
    4. Crowding them into ghettos
    5. Forcing them to work as slaves.

    My God, we never, ever learn.

  13. I don’t want to scare anyone but the new mu variant is the most insidious of all. There’s no symptoms, no cure, everyone can spread it, everyone will get it, nobody will know they have it and we’ll all die in the end. Book a hospital bed now.

    1. Zerohedge.com has a saying ” on a long enough time line your odds of surviving fall to zero “.

    2. Arty forget that,buy a Mumu.
      What about the “Quadra” variant?,makes everyone believe they are an island.

      As for the psychological effects.
      Meh.
      I see a bunch of fools and bandits who seem intent on causing me serious harm and even death.
      I invoke the right of self defence.
      Your call comrade.

  14. The analogy of two pieces of metal coming together with intense heat is very interesting. He also extends the same analogy by stating that in order for the two pieces to separate, the heat must become even more intense. The coming civil war will be ugly to say the least.

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