The Mass Psychosis that Now Grips the World
"Alone, confused and battered by waves of terror, a population under an attack of menticide descends into a hopeless and vulnerable state. The never-ending stream of propaganda turns minds once capable
of rational thought into playhouses of irrational forces and with chaos swirling around them, and within them, the masses crave a return to a more ordered world. The would-be totalitarians can now take the decisive step,
they can offer a way out and a return to order in a world that seems to be moving rapidly in the opposite direction.
But all this come at a price: The masses must give up their freedom and cede control of all aspects of life to the ruling elite. They must relinquish their capacity to be self-reliant individuals who are responsible for their own lives, and become submissive and obedient subjects. The masses, in other words, must descend into the delusions of the totalitarian psychosis. “the totalitarian systems of the 20th century represent a kind of collective
psychosis,” writes the medical doctor Joost Meerloo. “Whether gradually or suddenly, reason and common human decency are no longer possible in such a system: there is only a pervasive atmosphere of terror, and
a projection of “the enemy,” imagined to be “in our midst.”
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Jung, Meerloo, Havel---excellent sources. Jordan Peterson is also in their league--and a very accomplished speaker until his year-long descent into a hellish illness. But he is coming back with his new internet interviews,