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Maybe there would be no controversy in this case if "Massbildung" had been translated with "crowd delusion" or "mass hysteria" instead of the awkward "mass formation (psychosis)".

It seems like "crowd delusion" is a better name for what you mean:

"What is mass formation actually? It’s a specific kind of group formation that makes people radically blind to everything that goes against what the group believes in. In this way, they take the most absurd beliefs for granted." -- https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism

See also: "Mass hysteria" wiki article, awkwardly named "Mass psychogenic illness" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness

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I still prefer 'mass formation psychosis'. As the saying goes, if the shoe fits, wear it.

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In no way does your work plagiarize LeBon. In fact, your equation with ‘hypnosis’ was a real benefit for me personally as I absolutely refuse to be hypnotized - even when I have paid hundreds of dollars for just that service. I simply am not able to go down that last layer. That puts me in a group of some 25% of people from what I understand. That means 75% of the population of the planet are susceptible to hypnosis - AWESOME!

You presented an explanation which is reasonable, observable and absolutely normal to have effect on 3/4’s of all people. The majority of human beings were struggling to understand why they were being presented two completely opposite narratives of the same situation and most importantly why it had become so important for them to agree with a narrative that just didn’t sit right with them. More than that, how was it that trusted, like minded, dear friends had been led so far astray, heck, some leading the parade so far astray from logical deduction! Had your hypothesis not been co-opted, plagiarized and corrupted, there is a real chance the tide would have turned much earlier. “Why, of course! All of that incessant drum beating, I was hypnotized! Those dirty greedy bastards knew what they were doing! They probably read ‘The Crowd. A study of the Popular Mind’ and looked at Mattais’ work! Shame on them!”

Instead the reasonable, acceptable and completely normal, expectable condition of hypnosis was exchanged for a pathological term. Worst of all, a general malady or sickness of the mind. No one was going to relate to that nor embrace it as an explanation! And the most disgusting part is Dr. Malone is purported to be a man of science yet he used his notoriety and position in the public spot light to convince people that a perfectly normal condition was an illness. To see you support such a travesty is disheartening and puzzling! Why in the world would you endorse the state of being under hypnosis a form of psychosis? Are you claiming that 75% of the people on the planet are suffering a severe mental disorder in which thoughts and emotions are so affected that contact is lost with external reality? And if so, sir, why? Please explain yourself!

While you are at it, perhaps you would be so kind as to point me to the video in which Dr. Mike Yeadon had the ‘ah-ha!’ epiphany when you explained to him the mechanics of Mass Formation HYPNOSIS? He was so relieved to learn such a plausible explanation. I seriously doubt he would have looked so relieved had you convinced him his former colleagues were all suffering psychotic episodes! Interestingly, that bit of media seems to have been scrubbed from the interwebs. SHAME ON YOU! As I have said, hypnosis is not an option for me but the BULLSHIT you are attempting to peddle here, has psychosis sounding rather fun in all detached reality! Robert Malone is prime example of exactly why, in times long gone, ‘charming’ was in no way a compliment. How sad for Jill.

Perhaps you will consider this evidence and then consider helping solve the puzzle? We will certainly be most forgiving now as opposed to later, should we achieve our highest goals and defeat these evilsickfucktards whom, in absence of your immediate confession, you have joined their numbers! Come clean! The truth will set you free!

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"MASS FORMATION" or "MASS PSYCHOSIS" - This description of deception did not originate with any man.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 ESV

And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

..... Jesus declared, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. " Anyone who denies the Deity of Jesus will eventually fall under the deception of the one whom Daniel describes below...

Daniel 8:25 ESV

By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand.

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No, my PRAYER is for Jesus FATHER - God Almighty - (and His Son Christ Jesus) - (and also the Holy Ghost) to return to EARTH as a triumvirate to "kick ass" and straighten out the ungodly mess SATAN has made on earth.

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Relevant historical quotes to this topic:

1. Orwellian Crimestop: "The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of

any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical

errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored

or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In

short....protective stupidity."

~George Orwell, AKA, Eric Blair, Fabian Socialist insider whistleblower (dead at 49, within one year of publishing 1984). Dead men tell no more tales.

A "dangerous thought," of course, is anything inimical to the dictates, errrr, "mandates," of Big Brother (Money Power financed Mega-Corp. / Governmental merger).

2. “Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.”

~Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda, Sigmund Freud's nephew who deployed practical applications of his uncle's insights, and won Time Magazine's Man of the Year for his successes in doing so! That's one person on Earth in a given year. The BIG BROTHER GOAT of that year, if you will.

People are depicted as mere "rubber stamped" automatons manipulated by the financier's of the Big Brother system, if you will. You see, the AI joke is on you -- machines aren't being molded in humans, humans are being molded into easy to manipulate bio-machines!

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

~Edward Bernays, Propaganda

"There was a Second American Revolution in 1871. It was not won through force of arms, but through force of insight into how to create public opinion."

~John Taylor Gatto

"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."

~Michael Rivero, All Wars are Banker Wars (technically, the Money Power OWNER wars)

“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave of the lender.”

~Proverbs 22:7

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”

~Napoleon Bonaparte

“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”

~Lord Acton

Again, it is the Money Power OWNERS of the banks waging the war against even their own banking employees!

"I believe the real question is whether humans will ever be ready to accept the truth and stop lying to themselves

a variant of the "beautiful lie"...oh! so easy to swallow.

Humans have locked themselves into cages of their own construction...albeit with some carefully placed "suggestions""

~A man claiming to be a Rothschild, with the knowledge to support the claim, circa 2010 in his disclosure, AKA "apocalypse" for mankind.

"There was no "truth" in the MATRIX movie, per se.

There was a LOT of subliminal programming and suggestion which was most effective!

Fear is a human construct! Think on that. It is within your scope to live without fear. Truly the beginning signs of evolution!

Think back of all the fears you have had in your life! How many really panned out in any meaningful way? Even those events which had a "bad ending"...it is only bad in a limited and contextual way. Context is very important, as is perspective! Numerous examples abound!

The universe does not necessarily serve us, but it provides all which is needed...and more.

Someone posted a thought about the amount of energy between ambient and absolute zero is nearly infinite. The energy contained within an atom is beyond human comprehension!

Read of Tesla. He is the real deal! Don't waste time with the hucksters on the internet, although tere are a few who acknowledge and are trying to continue Tesla's work...one hundred years later!"

~A man claiming to be a Rothschild, with the knowledge to support the claim, circa 2010 in his disclosure, AKA "apocalypse" for mankind.

"YOU create your own reality...but you are HIGHLY suggestible.

HIGHLY.

Childish in so many ways...and you adults are children who never grew up...to reality...all busy telling each other the "beautiful lie"."

~A man claiming to be a Rothschild, with the knowledge to support the claim, circa 2010 in his disclosure, AKA "apocalypse" for mankind.

"Who runs the world? Well, YOU do of course.

Wherever I travel, I see a lot of YOU's out there busy running the world. And I also see that you run the world based on your precepts of how things work and such. Little algorithms, constantly operating in the background. Where on Earth did THEY come from?

laughing, laughing, laughing out LOUD!!

And of course, being children, things go wrong when bad or selfish decisions are made. Bogey-men are thus created to absorb the blame...deep dark evil forces that make things go bump in the night. THEY are the reason for all this trouble! Bad, bad men!

I suppose another way to put it that you might understand better, is that the world is run by men who truly understand the dark nature of the human spirit. So, YOU provide the evil and these men create scenarios where they know how you will react. It is scary how accurately refined these rule-based systems have become. Ironically, THESE men of "knowledge" must keep their "hands" clean! Must! Or the MAGIC goes!

Oh! Sweet Irony!!

Believe me when I say that the efforts to suppress come from immediately above your station. Those who have a few extra comforts that you don't and that want to maintain your submission so that they can maintain theirs.

The real masters are the intellects who suggest in a suggestible way that which you cannot resist.

Did you know that the US porn industry is now larger than the Hollywood box office? Well over 10 billion! But ask anyone if they watch porn and you will likely be told NO!.

Who is the evil, dark force here? The entity who understands human lust and provides for it? The consumer of the lust? Would the porn industry exist if its services were not in demand? Would it end tomorrow if people chose to NOT watch porn? Of course. So, pick your evil!

Of course, the "secret(s)" has/have made more than one bloodline powerful beyond belief, and there are struggles. Ultimately, one will win out..so that's interesting!"

~A man claiming to be a Rothschild, with the knowledge to support the claim, circa 2010 in his disclosure, AKA "apocalypse" for mankind.

As a bonus...

"I'm not following your viewpoint, but if you are suggesting the Judiciary in the US is corrupt, you won't get any argument from me!

Laughing out loud!

I am constantly amazed that the whole bunch haven't been exposed for who the are and to whom they are beholden.

But then again, fool me once..."

~A man claiming to be a Rothschild, with the knowledge to support the claim, circa 2010 in his disclosure, AKA "apocalypse" for mankind.

The BAR association leads right up the British Royal Crown... The judiciary of the United States is subservient to said British Crown. No wonder they can't stand to have the Constitution anywhere near their courtroom!

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“This is a truth crisis”…Brilliantly said!

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Maybe there are microcosms of mass formation, such as that seeming to happen in academia, and in certain disciplines and professions now. There is an attack on the structure of written and spoken language here in America, and an attempt to destroy bodies of knowledge and literature that arrive through a tradition. This is different than the paradoxically traditional process of thesis/antithesis/synthesis; rather it is the Year Zero rejection of all that came before as being polluted and unpurified based on fill-in-the-blank (racism, anti-semitism, colonialism, patriarchy, dead white European males, etc.) characteristics of earlier eras. Seems vital that you reiterate this now, also, as it does continue, and builds on its earlier iterations, to the point that no one can any longer define a woman. That seems as insane to me as the Iranian woman you described as sacrificing her child. Exponentially ramifying delusion. These models and understandings and histories of scholarship also serve to allow us to perceive at a different level of magnitude than this granular analysis, almost daily, of the current red meat to the masses thing, as thinking in different scales also can be koanic. And I think of what Iain McGilchrist quoted Niels Bohr as saying about truth, that the opposite of a truth is a falsehood, but the opposite of a great truth is often another great truth. Thank you for holding the kite string of truth!

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keep going.

do not pause.

sing.....loud....even if out of tune.

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Everyone has a role to play. If you come from a Christian tradition, you would have learned all about the ‘body of Christ’ as reflected in each members role in the church. All are valuable. All are needed.

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Yes but you have to accept some of his own methods to fix mental problems were ineffective and scorned at the time. My appreciation was for the analysis of what causes minds to become susceptible to breakdown or manipulation.

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I can only speak for myself in that regard; and identify myself as simply a sovereign individual.

"floater" isn't a word that "irks" me at all, however some might view it in its scatological context with the oft remarked "floater" in the punch bowl; or as gastronomical MD's say "floaters" in a toilet bowl.

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The issue with Malone is not with the "masses".. The issue is that other scientists, doctors are not to question his views or they will be sued in millions. There are a lot of suspicious questions - why did he claim that he had taken the jab when he is saying that mRNA technology is dangerous and has a connection to transhumanism? Why is he saying Karen Kingston is a troll when she is reading the patents from Moderna and Pfizer? She was asked not to present her research. Many more issues and questions.

At the point, it probably does not matter if it is mass formation or some other phenomena, people were lied to, manipulated and took advantage of. We need to help each other heal, detox from the jab and its shedding and bring those who conducted it to justice.

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Loved your book Mattias!!!

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"Floater" is poor choice to identify (me) and others who have no thoughts of being a controller or follower.

The signing of the Declaration of Independence by the 56 Founders in 1776, did what no other document in history accomplished - it de facto made INDIVIDUALS SOVEREIGN - meaning self-ruled; and concomitantly self RESPONSIBLE. Prior to the Signing, the colonists in the New World were SUBJECTS to the Crown of England.*

No longer would or could individuals in America be ruled by ANY king, queen, emperor, czar, potentate, despot, or dictator of ANY stripe sex or color.

It has taken a couple centuries of constant attack from WITHIN the United States to undo and nullify the blessed event of 1776; and now circa 2023 AD, MUCH of the freedoms individual sovereignty bequeathed have been usurped and nullified via un-elected and un-accountable (lifetime) bureaucrats that control over 300 agencies, bureau's and departments - MOST of which are absolutely UN-CONSTITUTIONAL!

* For those who are intellectually challenged, In 1620, there was NO United States. Again, the COLONISTS in America were SUBJECTS - NOT free persons, which means the "1620 Project" and its author are perpetrating out and out FRAUD (and) BOGUS "history" via absolute mendacity writ LARGE!

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