Does it sometimes feel like you’re surrounded by people who’ve been hypnotised in some way? Well, maybe they are.
Even intelligent and highly-formed people will resist any reasoning, facts or logic that challenge the narrative fed by the institutions and media. It doesn’t matter how contradictory or inconsistent it is. They refuse engaging into any reasoned debate. They just won’t wake up! They choose the blue pill. Why?
Until now, I have been puzzled by it, and couldn’t find a reasonable explanation.
Dan Astin-Gregory interviews Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, and his observations over the past 18 months have led him to conclude that the overwhelming majority have indeed fallen under a kind of spell.
Except it’s not actually a spell, of course: the term for it is ‘mass formation’ and right now it’s manifesting as a psychological response — not unlike hypnosis — to the unrelenting, single-focus campaign of fear to which we have all been subjected.
This is not another conspiratory theory, but a very sound and useful psychological explanation to understand this intriguing collective phenomenon.
