A colleague asked me to participate in a Medical Freedom Forum in Louisiana. I asked what she wanted me to talk about and she said “You know, talk about the psychology stuff they did to us.”
She labeled my talk the Psychology of Control. I only had 15 minutes.
I have been thinking about that for some time. For those of you that may be academic, this talk was about distilling the past 2.5 years down for the average person. It was outside the scope for me to discuss Power and the philosophical positions surrounding Power as the only commodity in human social interaction. Personally I believe that this worldview leads further to the isolation of individuals, except as representations of the groups to which they are labelled.
I haven’t written for a while so I figured I would send a summary of my notes.
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First, I will talked about Mattias Desmet’s framework of understanding Mass Formation. He is a Psychologist out of University of Ghent. I had summarized his work to the Louisiana State Health and Wellness oversite committee last year. It’s 4.5 minutes, I can not figure out how to embed a Rumble video into this format, so here is the link:
https://rumble.com/vqg16t-anthony-luczak-aprn.html
There are four precursors to a Mass Formation:
Social Isolation
Lack of Meaning or Purpose
Abundance of Free Floating Anxiety, Free Floating does not have an object to focus. (As opposed to Arachnophobia, or other instances of anxiety with an object) This is a human condition that arises when someone is isolated and lacks meaning or purpose.
Abundance of Negative Psychological Energy (which is related to and likely stems from #3)
If these 4 conditions are met in a society and enough people have the conditions the society is ripe for a Mass Formation. I believe that we have been collectively seeing these precursors present for some time.
A Mass Formation Occurs when a propaganda narrative focuses everyone’s attention on 1 object to be afraid of, and then gives people things to do about the object of their anxiety. Immediately their is a relief from the burden of the isolation and free floating anxiety and there is a sense of purpose. This is an intoxicating feeling. However the purpose only exists in the group, and the isolation is only relieved so long as one participates in the group. The group provides rituals to perform that alleviate the anxiety and mark one as belonging in the group.
I believe that the psychological importance of masks and vaccines that we saw in the past 2 years is related to their role as ritual. The import is not in the actual merit of any one measure at a scientific basis, the import of the measures are that they form rituals that refocus our attention on alleviating the anxiety and belonging in the Group, or mass. So when you discuss masking with someone who is still clinging on to wearing masks, be aware that you are dealing fundamentally with a ritual rather than a scientific opinion.
People are more subject to Mass formation if they are higher educated. I hypothesize that this has something to do with the narrowing of perception that comes with professional training in academic settings.
People are less subject to Mass Formation if they are religious, specifically if they have belief in Evil, or have histories of having survived psychological trauma from manipulative people. I would say that those who are in charge of most of our western religious institutions are highly educated and most went along part in parcel with the Mass Formation, adopting and incorporating the Rituals and Narratives of the day. I remember visiting a different church for a service in late 2021 and hearing the Homily about redefining Christian Charity which is defined as love of God and love of neighbor. According to the Priest Charity meant to get a vaccine and wear a mask. I am aware that this phenomena did not only occur in Catholic Churches, but also Evangelicals and most other major religions. I suspect that it was intentional and that our Government Public Health Agencies Orchestrated a Unified Voice for the Narrative response.
Last year there was a Meme erroneously calling the theory Mass Formation Psychosis, but I agree with Desmet that it should be called Mass Formation. Psychosis is an established psychological phenomena on the DSM V that an individual can be diagnosed with and Mass Formation is a theory of Group Psychology.
I also referenced Live not by Lies, by Rod Dreher in my talk. I wrote a previous article titled Live not by Lies here.
Both fantastic books and very helpful to understand what is going on in our society, and what we can do about it. In my mind Desmet and Dreher both have the same call to each of us, which I encourage my patients in clinic daily: to do real things with real people in the real world. We should value each other as individuals, and actively seek to not succumb to a counter mass formation. Remember that a Mass Formation is one in which the individuals are isolated, and your value and togetherness comes from succumbing to the group. Both Desmet and Dreher call on people to form small communities that have deep social bonds.
Lastly I mentioned Sharyl Attkisson’s TED talk on Astroturf and manipulation of media messages. Sharyl is a Journalist that discusses the mechanisms of control that are used in our media, and gives pointers about how you can be on guard against media messaging that is likely intended to be manipulating you. How often does your source of media use the types of things that Sharyl warns are tools of Astroturf? If so, my advice is to turn it off and find a different source of media.
Interesting. It is my opinion that people of faith answer to a higher power that isn't the globalists, so they are harder to indoctrinate. However, the Catholic Church and their #NotMyPope is a huge mess since the Pope sold out to the globalists evil. The globalists also have programs/toolkits to infiltrate religion.
I see that the Baptists in North Louisiana haven't bought into any of it and continue to sound the alarm in their monthly media on everything from the Covid Con to the globalists and their King/Surf world they have planned for us.
I agree that the group think indoctrination in higher ed plays right into Mass Formation. I think I first heard Desmet speak of it with Reiner Fuellmich at the beginning. This was all by design and the reason adversarial countries have "invested" in our educational system for decades. The UN's indoctrination programs are just lagniappe, but how many of our paid fools had their pockets lined to allow this because - Who does that? Who allows the CCP to open Confucius schools in America? Oh forget it, they allow them to buy up our land, so... Qatar is the largest donor on record with China coming in second but they don't enforce the reporting requirements so who really knows. Common Sense in academia ran for it's life long ago. It's hiding under a boulder somewhere with Free Speech.
What a mess! I keep asking our LA reps why we haven't started our own gold-backed banks, promoted victory gardens or public service announcements on how to survive a nuclear attack since Russia has warned us. I believe over 60% of our budget comes via the Federal government and they are in on it.
It's like Louisiana is a mini D.C. and what's up with this "Behavioral Health" scam that they are moving states towards and all the Elites are investing in? Combining drug addiction with mental health & paying the "family doctor" who runs the scam for Louisiana over $600,500 a year salary? And that was in 2020 according to Open the Books. Our Dept of Health hasn't passed an audit in forever. Red Flag laws anyone? Globalism can't happen with an armed society.
There are quite a few grassroots groups in Louisiana. You all need ONE HUGE PLATFORM. The Dem's are really good at organizing and pulling all their NGOs onto whatever the pressing action item is at any given time. They were all involved in the Election - Clearly!
Thank you for speaking out.
Thank you Anthony, your notes have piqued my curiousty further and I want to look into the sources that you cited, for investigation. I am shocked that Christian charity was about unquestioning conformism. Mostly all churches had a vaccine mandate policy to enter God's house, leading to become more of a sect that excluded those that did not take the jab. So much for Christian charity when segregation was fully embraced. That's why I support Accountability BEFORE Amnesty