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A MUST READ! “‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ paradoxically serves to legitimize the mass atrocity perpetrated during the Covid-19 era”<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Covid-19 \u2013 Mass Formation or Mass Atrocity?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Mattias Desmet\u2019s theory of Mass Formation attracted a great deal of attention in 2022. In this review of Desmet\u2019s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, we argue that it manifests the psychology of atrocity \u2013 and that \u201cMass Formation\u201d paradoxically serves to legitimize the mass atrocity perpetrated during the Covid-19 era.<\/h3>\n

BY UNLIMITED HANGOUT<\/p>\n

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This article was written by David Hughes, Valerie Kyrie and Daniel Broudy.<\/em>
\nIt is a guest submission exclusive to Unlimited Hangout.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the declaration of the pandemic that changed the world in March 2020, an army of thought police descended upon populations worldwide. Overnight, the public face of science was transformed from a civil and civilian endeavor into a matter of law and order. In place of what had formerly emanated from research communities came edicts from government officials, bolstered by celebrity bureaucrats, enforced by\u00a0censorship, smearing, and coercion<\/a>, and\u00a0backed up by riots<\/a> (e.g. here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>). In the process, science as previously known, a careful product of time, hypothesis-testing, collective critique, and pertinent subject matter expertise, gave way to The Science™, a kaleidoscopic, ever-changing and capricious set of pseudo-medical justifications for government overreach and violations of citizens\u2019 rights, riding on rolling waves of public messaging<\/a> and manufactured<\/a> fear, in keeping with a totalitarian model.<\/p>\n

From the earliest days, there were\u00a0those who could see<\/a>\u00a0these developments as dangerous, and those who could not. There were those who saw that the\u00a0sharp turn away from democracy<\/a>, due process, and human rights had nothing to do with empirical science whatsoever. And those who did not. The former have been mystified by the latter, and increasingly so as time has passed.\u00a0Why can\u2019t they see what\u2019s going on<\/em>?<\/p>\n

For anyone who took seriously the entreaties to \u201cfollow the science\u201d, as early as March 17th, when authorities were claiming to both know next-to-nothing about the \u201cnovel\u201d coronavirus and yet, inexplicably, to have also settled The Science™, John Ioannidis (Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Population Health, Biomedical Data Science and Statistics at Stanford University), wrote: \u201cThe data collected so far<\/a>\u00a0on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable.\u201d He warned that while Covid-19 was being framed as a once-in-a-century pandemic, the science was shaping up to be a \u201conce-in-a-century evidence fiasco\u201d (Ioannidis,\u00a02020<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, bureaucrats, government officials, tech moguls, social media personnel, and medical regulators studiously ignored Professor Ioannidis, a leading authority in his field, and proceeded, instead, to implement their \u201cpublic health emergency\u201d,\u00a0Lockstep-style<\/a>, as had already been planned through a series of \u201cpandemic preparedness\u201d exercises (eg Alexopulos,\u00a02018<\/a>; Gates,\u00a02015<\/a>; Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security,\u00a02017,<\/a>\u00a02019<\/a>; O\u2019Toole, Mair & Inglesby,\u00a02002<\/a>; Rockefeller Foundation,\u00a02010<\/a>; Simpson et al.,\u00a02020<\/a>; WHO,\u00a02017a<\/a>,\u00a02017b<\/a>). The underlying weaponization of medicine and science and their casting into tools of oppression were enabled from the outset by a blitzkrieg of tried and tested propaganda techniques, as we have summarized previously (Broudy & Kyrie,\u00a02022<\/a>; Kyrie & Broudy,\u00a02022a<\/a>,\u00a02022b<\/a>). In concert, consistent with\u00a0psychological operations<\/a>\u00a0tactics (Dhami, 2011; GCHQ,\u00a02014<\/a>; Kyrie & Broudy,\u00a02022a<\/a>), the enactment of the \u201cpublic health emergency\u201d was carefully fabricated by numerous means, many policies with origins that predated the announcement of the pandemic (Ardizzone,\u00a02021<\/a>; Business Wire,\u00a02021<\/a>; Deevoy,\u00a02021;<\/a>\u00a0Farber,\u00a02020<\/a>; Mercola,\u00a02022<\/a>a; Truth for Health,\u00a02022<\/a>; Vilet,\u00a02022a<\/a>; Yeadon,\u00a02022<\/a>). These foundational fabrications included systematically withholding life-saving treatment.<\/p>\n

Dr Harvey Risch<\/a>, MD and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, whose work has been cited over 46,000 times, said of the FDA warning against Hydroxychloroquine:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fraud<\/a>\u00a0\u2026. This was the crux of the whole pandemic in the first place. The suppression of Hydroxychloroquine started before anyone even knew there was a pandemic \u2026 in fall of 2019 \u2026 [based on a] completely false theory [that was] completely impossible \u2026. This medication\u2019s been used in tens of billions of doses in hundreds of millions of people for half a century or more. It is one of the most important medications on the WHO list [and] one of the safest medications known.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Had this medication been used at the outset of this pandemic it would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives that were needlessly lost because this was suppressed for a year \u2026. And had we been able to treat this disease adequately the necessity of vaccines would not nearly have been as important, and maybe not important at all. And that is the crux of the whole pandemic. It was used to sell vaccines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Exterior of the Pfizer World headquarter building, December 10, 2020, New York.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Several months into the manufactured pandemic, in June 2020, with\u00a0contrary evidence<\/a>\u00a0and opinion from an increasingly long list of experts being sidelined, censored, erased, and ignored (Atlas,\u00a02020<\/a>; Bhattacharya & Packalen,\u00a02020<\/a>; Binder,\u00a02022<\/a>; Gieseke,\u00a02020<\/a>; Lass,\u00a02020<\/a>; Leake,\u00a02022<\/a>; Rancourt,\u00a02020<\/a>; Reiss & Bhakdi,\u00a02020<\/a>; Shir-Raz,\u00a02022<\/a>; Vilet,\u00a02022b<\/a>), Professor Michael Levitt, biophysicist from the Department of Structural Biology in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2013,\u00a0wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We let economics and politics dedicate the science \u2026. And the fact is that almost all the science we were hearing \u2013 for example, from organisations like the World Health Organisation \u2013 was wrong. We had Facebook censoring [views contrary to] the World Health Organisation. This has been a disgraceful situation for science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The net result was an arrested development in the public understanding of Covid-19 whereby official accounts of The Virus™ and its countermeasures were strategically frozen at a very early moment in time, before any genuine scientific understanding could form. That arrested public understanding has been prohibited from evolving ever since. Doctors, scientists, journalists, academics, and citizens have been\u00a0threatened<\/a>,\u00a0fired<\/a>,\u00a0censored<\/a>,\u00a0de-platformed<\/a>, and\u00a0attacked<\/a>, including by\u00a0paramilitary police<\/a>, for daring to question The Science™. Two and a half years later,\u00a0orders remain in place<\/a>\u00a0granting medical registration boards the power to revoke licenses of health practitioners who \u201cundermine\u201d the \u201cimmunization campaign\u201d, even as the rationale for that campaign collapses (Anderson et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>; Bhakdi et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>; Blaylock,\u00a02022<\/a>; Broudy,\u00a02021<\/a>, p. 102; Chung,\u00a02022<\/a>; Classen\u00a02021<\/a>; Expos\u00e9,\u00a02022a<\/a>; Fraiman et al.\u00a02022<\/a>; Gutschi,\u00a02022<\/a>; Maholtra,\u00a02022a<\/a>,\u00a02022b<\/a>; Oller & Santiago\u00a02022<\/a>; Santiago,\u00a02022<\/a>; Seneff & Nigh,\u00a02021<\/a>), and the vaccinated across all age groups die from all causes at a rate that is up to several fold higher than their fellow citizens who refused the\u00a0holy grail<\/a>\u00a0of the manufactured pandemic \u2013 Covid \u201cvaccines\u201d (Altman et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>, pp. 21-23; Beattie,\u00a02021<\/a>; Oller & Santiago,\u00a02022<\/a>).<\/p>\n

There are those who continue to accept such practices as befitting genuine scientific endeavor. And there are those who do not. Answers as to the interests, agendas, and beneficiaries behind the manufactured pandemic and its countermeasures are not difficult to ascertain, thanks to a large literature of independent research, journalism, and scholarship (e.g. see Breggin & Breggin,\u00a02021<\/a>; Children\u2019s Health Defense,\u00a02021<\/a>; Corbett,\u00a02017<\/a>,\u00a02022<\/a>; Davis,\u00a02022<\/a>; Hughes,\u00a02022a<\/a>;\u00a02022b<\/a>; Kennedy Jr.,\u00a02021<\/a>; Kyrie & Broudy,\u00a02022a<\/a>; Mercola,\u00a02022b<\/a>; Robinson,\u00a02022<\/a>; Unterhalt,\u00a02022<\/a>; Vedmore,\u00a02022<\/a>; Webb,\u00a02022<\/a>). More elusive is the question as to why so many people are still in the thrall of the Official Story. Which is where Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet\u2019s theory of Mass Formation and his book,\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>, come in (Desmet,\u00a02022<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Explanation or Exoneration?<\/h2>\n

The theory of\u00a0Mass Formation<\/a>, coined and proposed to explain the dynamics of totalitarian societies by\u00a0Mattias Desmet of Ghent University<\/a>, brings together work by Hannah Arendt (2004) on totalitarianism and insights from group-based psychology, psychoanalysis, and hypnosis. It offers an account of how and why populations might not only submit to totalitarian control, but eagerly embrace it. The thesis holds that under societal conditions of free-floating anxiety, loneliness, meaninglessness and discontent, populations are ripe to believe stories that offer an object for their fear and anxiety. With a shared purpose, in a state of hypnotic fixation, populations fall into formation\u00a0en masse<\/em>, on a mission to annihilate the object of their collective angst. The behavior has precedent. As\u00a0Walter Lippmann described<\/a>\u00a0in 1922, \u201cthe leader knows by experience that only when symbols have done their work is there a handle he can use to move a crowd. In the symbol emotion is discharged at a common target, and the idiosyncrasy of real ideas blotted out.\u201d In the contemporary process, Desmet (2022<\/a>) posits, \u201cthe masses believe in the story not because it\u2019s accurate but because it creates a new social bond \u2026 In this way, the masses come to accept even the most absurd ideas as true, or at least to act as if they were true\u201d (p. 97).<\/p>\n

Following Arendt (2004), Desmet differentiates this totalitarian dynamic, which he claims emerges \u201cthe way complex, dynamic systems organize themselves in nature\u201d, such as \u201cthe way starlings swarm\u201d (p. 125), from that of dictatorships, which are \u201cbased on instilling a fear of physical aggression\u201d (p. 90). During the process of Mass Formation, according to Desmet, about 30 percent of the population is \u201chypnotized,\u201d 40-60 percent is not hypnotized but chooses to go along to get along, and a minority, somewhere between 10 and 30 percent, is not hypnotized and actively resists (p. 140).<\/p>\n

With its eloquent analysis of psycho-political malaise in contemporary societies, and its elegantly simple language with which to capture the trance-like split from reality that segments of the population have exhibited since 2020, Desmet\u2019s\u00a0book<\/a>, released in 2022, whet an immense global appetite for psychological understanding. He has been hailed as \u201cone of the most sincere<\/a>, thoughtful, and important intellectuals of the twenty-first century,\u201d who \u201cstands shoulder to shoulder<\/a>\u00a0with the likes of Arendt, Jung and Freud\u201d.<\/p>\n

The enthusiasm for Desmet\u2019s ability to draw theoretical links between social conditions and the mass submission to Covid tyranny is understandable. The resounding gratitude to this Belgian clinical psychologist for demystifying such a mystifying phenomenon is palpable. However, looking more closely at where Desmet\u2019s thesis ultimately takes its reader, along an engaging and even mesmerizing trail, leads to a less enlightened, and less enlightening, destination.<\/p>\n

Rather than trace the illusions of Covid-19 to the powerful entities and actors who have dictated and enforced The Science™ from the very beginning (Breggin & Breggin,\u00a02021<\/a>; Kennedy Jr.,\u00a02021<\/a>; Broudy & Hoop,\u00a02021<\/a>; Broudy & Arakaki,\u00a02020<\/a>; Davis,\u00a02022<\/a>; Robinson,\u00a02022<\/a>), reappearing to steer the operation at every turn (Anderson et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>; Hughes,\u00a02022b<\/a>; Knightly,\u00a02022<\/a>; Loffredo & Blumenthal,\u00a02021a<\/a>,\u00a02021b<\/a>; Loffredo & Webb,\u00a02020a<\/a>,\u00a02020b<\/a>,\u00a02020c<\/a>; Mercola,\u00a02022c<\/a>; Rockefeller Foundation,\u00a02022<\/a>; Stieber & Trigoso,\u00a02022<\/a>; Vandiver,\u00a02022<\/a>; WHO,\u00a02021<\/a>),\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u00a0maintains that populations have primarily their own neuroses and auto-oppressive impulses to blame. We, the victims of mass deception, are encouraged to turn the critical lens on ourselves, to contend with our own foolish na\u00efvet\u00e9.<\/p>\n

For instance, while Desmet acknowledges that Klaus Schwab\u2019s\u00a0Great Reset book<\/a>\u00a0and pandemic planning exercises by the\u00a0Rockefeller Foundation<\/a>, the\u00a0Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and Johns Hopkins University \u201cdescribed how society would go into lockdown as the result of a pandemic, that a bio-passport would be introduced, that people would be tracked and traced with subcutaneous sensors, and so on,\u201d he argues that any such \u201cconsistency\u201d (p. 133) occurs because populations perpetually push their leaders in a totalitarian direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe modern crowd is always pushing in the same direction: the hyper-controlled society,\u201d (p. 127) he contends. As a result, experts\u2019 \u201cdecisions always move toward a more technologically and biomedically controlled society\u2026 The leaders of the masses \u2014 the so-called elite \u2014 give the people what they want. When fearful, the population wants a more controlled society.\u201d Leaders, according to Desmet, \u201csense what people crave and they adjust their plans in that direction\u201d (pp. 133-134). Who knew we were all masochistic serfs seeking to be shackled by digital chains?<\/p>\n

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A woman appeals to police at an anti-lockdown protest in Ottawa. Source: \u2018Woman who\u2019s lost her career pleads with Trudeau\u2019s secret police<\/a>\u2019. Chinlee. Rumble\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Not only are leaders led into totalitarianism by crowds seeking greater social control, writes Desmet, but those leaders enact their totalitarianism \u201cblindly\u201d, under a hypnotic trance. \u201cTotalitarian leaders are themselves caught in a form of hypnosis,\u201d he explains. \u201cThe leaders are not only hypnotized by their ideology but also by the masses\u201d (p. 110). Totalitarian tactics, therefore, \u201cshould be understood in terms of mass psychology rather than malicious, intentional deception\u201d (p. 115).<\/p>\n

Desmet\u2019s deconstruction of the underlying social phenomenon, in other words, casts\u00a0the progenitors<\/a>\u00a0of fear and hysteria \u2014 those in positions of power who devise and launch sophisticated propaganda campaigns to drive fear-driven narratives \u2014 as satiating the appetites of the crowd. Anyone who disagrees with this thesis, Desmet argues in Chapter 8, is a conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n

And yet, the notion that populations asked for what they got, and got what they asked for, is wholly divorced from the material realities of Covid-19. In truth, citizens were effectively placed under\u00a0house arrest<\/a>, their societies and economies taken hostage, and offered only one path out: the \u201cvaccine.\u201d The \u201cbiomedically controlled society\u201d (p. 133) ushered in under Covid countermeasures had to be forcibly imposed upon citizens. Mass surrender of bodily autonomy was only achieved by threatening entire populations with the loss of their livelihoods, being excluded from society and locked out of education, socialization, and even healthcare, should they fail to submit.<\/p>\n

Not to mention the reality that, even under such duress, rather than \u201cmodern crowds\u201d \u201cpushing\u201d towards a \u201chyper-controlled society\u201d, as Desmet argues (p. 127), from the earliest attempts at Covid \u201cvaccine\u201d mandates, populations marched against the Covid measures in their millions\u00a0around the world<\/a>, at an unprecedented frequency and scale (e.g. in\u00a0Australia<\/a>;\u00a0Barcelona<\/a>;\u00a0Berlin<\/a>;\u00a0Brazil<\/a>;\u00a0Brussels<\/a>;\u00a0Canada<\/a>;\u00a0France<\/a>;\u00a0Holland<\/a>;\u00a0Israel<\/a>;\u00a0Italy<\/a>;\u00a0Lithuania<\/a>;\u00a0London<\/a>;\u00a0New York<\/a>;\u00a0Vienna<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0more<\/a>). The protesters have been met with\u00a0armed police<\/a>,\u00a0soldiers<\/a>,\u00a0paramilitary squads<\/a>,\u00a0armored vehicles<\/a>,\u00a0tear gas<\/a>, pepper spray, and\u00a0water cannons<\/a>. The acute social tensions and assorted forms of viciousness evident in these scenes go unaddressed in\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 save for a fleeting mention of the \u201c10 to 30 percent\u201d of the population that \u201cactively resists\u201d [p. 140]). If totalitarianism, as expressed in Carl Schmitt\u2019s concept of the political, is about the \u201csuppression and elimination of social relations\u201d (Teschke 2011, pp. 86-7), then \u2014 in that respect \u2014 Desmet\u2019s book ironically models the very kind of thinking it aims to critique.<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of thousands protesting against Covid measures in Melbourne, Australia. Source: \u2018<\/em>Hundreds of thousands march in Melbourne<\/em><\/a>\u2019. True Arrow. YouTube.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Rather than acknowledging the victims of official violence, Desmet casts authorities as victims of their own self-destructive responses to the \u201cwill\u201d (p. 126) of the crowd: \u201cThe totalitarian leader blindly sacrifices his own interests \u2026 [for instance] in the recklessness with which totalitarian regimes destroy their own economies and wreak economic havoc\u201d (p. 112), he says. And yet,\u00a0according to Oxfam<\/a>, a new billionaire was created every 30 hours during the \u201cpandemic.\u201d What, precisely, were the obscenely wealthy sacrificing?<\/p>\n

In fact, the Mass Formation thesis necessitates a fundamental revision of the history of Covid-19. It is a revision in which pre-meditation and\u00a0violence<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0authorities<\/a>\u00a0is blotted out, and the scale of\u00a0resistance from citizens<\/a>\u00a0 even against\u00a0armed repression<\/a>\u00a0and state brutality,\u00a0 is comprehensively downplayed. Which begs the question: Given the empirical reality of the orchestrated mass casualties inflicted by Covid countermeasures, the overnight imposition of tyrannical control,\u00a0the use of violence<\/a>, the material evidence of pre-planning, and the sustained infliction of\u00a0foreseeable<\/a>\u00a0mass harm (Beattie,\u00a02022<\/a>; Bhakdi et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>; Mercola,\u00a02022c<\/a>; Risch,\u00a02022<\/a>; Truth for Health,\u00a02022<\/a>), are we really looking at Mass Formation? Or is \u2018mass atrocity\u2019 a more appropriate term?<\/p>\n

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Police tackle and punch a woman at a protest against Covid measures in Germany. Source: \u2018<\/em>Disturbing acts of Violence<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by German and Australian Gestapo-like troupes against peaceful protest\u2019. Light Up the Darkness. Bitchute.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Subjugated Knowledge: Intellectual Burial and Mass Atrocity<\/h2>\n

An\u00a0atrocity<\/a>\u00a0is defined by the Cambridge Online Dictionary as an \u201cextremely cruel, violent or shocking act\u201d, as in the sentence: \u201cThey are on trial for committing atrocities against the civilian population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shock, a defining feature of atrocity, is itself\u00a0defined as<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe emotional or physical reaction to a sudden, unexpected and unusually unpleasant event or experience.\u201d It is illustrated with the sentence: \u201cI was in a state of shock for about two weeks after the accident.\u201d Atrocities, in other words, are difficult to digest and comprehend.<\/p>\n

While atrocities may be committed on an individual scale,\u00a0mass atrocities<\/a>\u00a0are defined by\u00a0the Journal of Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions<\/em>\u00a0as acts of \u201cextreme violence inflicted on a large scale or in a deliberate manner, particularly on civilians and noncombatants, by State or non-State actors.\u201d Examples typically include crimes against humanity, which the International Criminal Court\u00a0lists as including<\/a>\u00a0\u201cmurder, extermination \u2026 unlawful deprivation of liberty \u2026 collective persecution \u2026 apartheid and other similar inhumane acts causing great suffering or serious injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite their shocking and unfathomable nature, mass atrocities are not rare. History books, and nightly news broadcasts, are littered with them, in the form of war, persecution, repressive governance and state-corporate crime.<\/p>\n

Given the scale of the damage wrought by the disingenuous official measures and official Science™ in the name of Covid-19, it is not difficult to describe Covid countermeasures using the language of mass atrocity. \u201cState and non-State actors\u201d have inflicted policies upon \u201ccivilians and noncombatants\u201d, causing foreseeable and preventable death (\u201cmurder\u201d or \u201cextermination\u201d), through lockdowns (Bhattacharya & Packalen,\u00a02020<\/a>; Green & Battacharya,\u00a02021<\/a>), treatment-suppression (Risch,\u00a02022<\/a>; Mercola,\u00a02021<\/a>) and vaccine mandates (Altman et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>, pp. 21-23; Armstrong,\u00a02021<\/a>; Beattie,\u00a02021<\/a>; Expose,\u00a02022b<\/a>; Goss,\u00a02022<\/a>; Oller & Santiago,\u00a02022<\/a>) on a \u201clarge scale\u201d, numbering in their millions and counting (Armstrong,\u00a02021<\/a>; Battacharya & Packalen,\u00a02020<\/a>; Mercola,\u00a02021<\/a>). Other \u201cacts causing great suffering or serious injury\u201d have included vaccine injuries (Beattie,\u00a02022<\/a>; Bhakdi et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>; Goss,\u00a02022<\/a>; Palmer & Bhakdi,\u00a02022<\/a>; Redshaw,\u00a02022<\/a>; Stieber,\u00a02022<\/a>), mass unemployment (Bianchi et al.,\u00a02021<\/a>; Germanos,\u00a02020<\/a>), mass poverty (BBC,\u00a02020<\/a>; Oxfam,\u00a02022<\/a>) and mass hunger (Battacharya & Packalen,\u00a02020<\/a>; World Food Programme,\u00a02020<\/a>), themselves all leading global causes of illness and disease (Bianchi et al.,\u00a02021<\/a>; Black et al.,\u00a02008<\/a>; Gupta et al.,\u00a02007<\/a>; Szabo,\u00a02021<\/a>). Further harms have ensued from \u201cunlawful deprivation of liberty\u201d including forced medical experimentation, denial of freedom of movement, freedom of speech and bodily autonomy, alongside \u201ccollective persecution\u201d through a\u00a0fraudulent<\/a>\u00a0vaccine \u201capartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From Altman et al. \u2018<\/em>Letter to Atagi<\/em><\/a>, TGA and Federal Health Minister\u2019. 8th March, 2022. p. 23.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In short, applying the lens of atrocity to Covid countermeasures is an obvious imperative. Ignoring it is an obvious oversight.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>, the word \u201catrocity\u201d appears just three times. It is used not to describe the carnage wreaked by the response to Covid-19 but to warn against future harms from untamed populations. Desmet writes that under the thrall of Mass Formation, \u201cThe masses are inclined to commit atrocities against those who resist them and typically execute them as if it were an ethical, sacred duty\u201d (p. 104). \u201cDon\u2019t underestimate where this could go in the future,\u201d he warns. \u201cWe can see what appears on the horizon: random roundups, arbitrary isolation, and discretionary \u2018treatment\u2019 of \u2018infected\u2019 people\u201d (pp. 115-16). It is as though huge numbers of people had not already been told to \u201cself-isolate\u201d based on tests\u00a0not fit<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0purpose<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0prone to false positive results<\/a>, as well as forced to pay for their own isolation in hotels when traveling between countries. Moreover, it is as though the intense propaganda campaign to demonize the \u201cunvaccinated\u201d as disease carriers (modeled on Nazi treatment of Jews as vermin, and epitomized by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky\u2019s phrase, \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated<\/a>\u201d) had never taken place.<\/p>\n

The Psychology of Atrocity 101<\/h2>\n

Psychologically speaking, atrocity, like Mass Formation, is a collective endeavor. Since World War II, psychological researchers have investigated psychological processes capable of fueling collective violence and atrocity in the hopes that travesties such as mass killing might be prevented from happening again (Reicher & Haslam,\u00a02006<\/a>). Studies on obedience to authority (Milgram\u00a01974<\/a>), system justification (Jost,\u00a02018<\/a>), moral disengagement (Bandura,\u00a01999<\/a>; Zimbardo\u00a02007<\/a>), dehumanization of outgroups (Kelman,\u00a02005<\/a>; Moshman,\u00a02007<\/a>; Waytz & Schroeder,\u00a02014<\/a>), passive bystanding (Staub,\u00a01999<\/a>; 2015), and the psychology of genocide (Mandel,\u00a02002a<\/a>; Melson & Hanic,\u00a02017<\/a>; Moshman,\u00a02007<\/a>; Staub,\u00a01999<\/a>), to name a few, have illuminated key psychological ingredients of mass harm. When invoked, those ingredients combine to create the necessary pre-conditions for atrocity-generating conditions to arise (eg Dutton et al.,\u00a02005<\/a>; Reicher et al., 2008; Staub, 1989). They are the same ingredients that propaganda campaigns target in order to manufacture consent for war and violence, as we have outlined in a \u201cpropaganda recipe\u201d (Kyrie & Broudy,\u00a02022<\/a>) with respect to the War on Terror, and the war on humanity being waged in the name of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Simply put, under atrocity-generating conditions, society\u2019s roles and relationships are perverted such that members of a society begin to march,\u00a0en masse<\/em>\u00a0and in formation, into the abyss of their own destruction. Not \u201clike flocking starlings\u201d, as Desmet argues (p. 42), but under instruction. As in any other shared societal struggle against a common enemy, the public mind must be effectively conditioned, regimented and, as Edward Bernays noted, universally and continuously occupied, \u201cevery bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers\u201d (1928\/2004<\/a>, p. 25) with optimal levels of fear and outrage so that the projected sacrifice of bodies will be judged as necessary and justified.<\/p>\n

During the march through atrocity, participants are understood as falling into several key roles. There are victims who suffer the harm, perpetrators who inflict it, active bystanders who seek to intervene and passive bystanders who decline to take a stand. As the Mass Formation hypothesis suggests, these categories are not mutually exclusive. A doctor who administers a lethal injection, for instance, may double as a victim who has been mesmerized, or traumatized, into giving and receiving the injection themselves.<\/p>\n

Perpetrators, however, like the members of the societies that spawn them, come in different shapes and sizes. They range from unwitting foot soldiers, the \u201cdull bureaucrats and technocrats\u201d that Desmet describes (p. 2), to more cognizant actors. The US State Department subsidiary USAID, for example,\u00a0differentiates between<\/a>\u00a0high-level perpetrators \u201cwho are responsible for orchestrating mass atrocities [and] are the ones who control states\u201d, mid-level perpetrators \u201cwho translate national policy into concrete action on the ground\u201d, and low-level perpetrators \u201cwho carry out physical violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

More fundamentally, writes psychologist David Mandel (2002b<\/a>), behind atrocity-generating conditions lies a special class of actor whose role is to incite others to inflict harm. These participants Mandel calls instigators, which is where\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u00a0falls down. The instigator\u2019s role, Mandel writes, is \u201cnot to carry out the acts of violence themselves, but to tune and transmit the messages that will effectively motivate others to cause harm and to provide perpetrators with the requisite resources for accomplishing their tasks\u201d (p. 102). Mandel notes that:<\/p>\n

The power of instigators often derives from control of wealth (medium-grade power) and information (high-grade power) \u2026 Indeed, the power that the perpetrators derive in a system of collective violence is usually granted directly or indirectly by the instigating elite\u2026 An important feature of instigators is that they act as\u00a0catalysts<\/em>\u00a0of collective violence, often by conveying a vision for a better life or by identifying a perceived source of threat in times of social unrest \u2026 Social and political analysts should pay much closer attention to the messages of figures who have the potential to influence mass opinion for, at present, we tend to underestimate their ability to catalyze change .. Put differently, the social influence of instigators and perpetrators is strongly asymmetric: Instigators shape the thinking and guide the behavior of perpetrators, but perpetrators have relatively little influence on the motives or plans of instigators (Mandel,\u00a02002b<\/a>, p. 102).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

USAID adds<\/a>, \u201ca number of motives might drive high-level authorities, or elites, to mobilize mass atrocities; for example, the perception of threat to their power \u2026 Elites also often leverage existing social biases or grievances instrumentally to advance personal political goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not by accident, then, that the very definition of atrocity is illustrated with the sentence: \u201cThey are on trial for committing atrocities against the civilian population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nowhere in\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>, however, is an instigator to be found. Utterly divorced from the psychology of atrocity, the Mass Formation thesis holds that \u201cthe real masters of the predicament are not the leaders of totalitarian systems, but the stories and their underlying ideology; these ideologies take possession of everyone and belong to no one; everyone plays a part, nobody knows the full script\u201d (pp. 119-20).<\/p>\n

Which is itself a story under which instigators of mass atrocities may wash their hands clean. Victims\u2019 families have nothing but a \u201cstory\u201d to blame for their loved ones\u2019 deaths. They are bereaved by a crime committed by \u201ceveryone and no-one\u201d. There can be no placing anyone on trial for committing atrocities against the civilian population. After all, Desmet\u00a0writes<\/a>, the butterfly effect means that \u201cthe cause of things can be situated everywhere.\u201d Such is the power of the passive voice to extricate the perpetrating agent from possible blame, as in George W. Bush\u2019s \u201cmistakes are made\u201d (2004<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Saira Mohamed, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, on the other hand, notes:<\/p>\n

The law of mass atrocity readily recognizes that responsibility and punishment for the world\u2019s worst horrors\u2026 ought to fall primarily on the political, military, or community leaders who bring about these systematic crimes\u2026 Moral persuasion should be acknowledged as culpable criminal conduct on the part of leaders as a matter of both law and morality (Mohamed,\u00a02017<\/a>, pp. 777, 781).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Desmet concedes that \u201cthere most certainly is all kinds of manipulation\u201d in today\u2019s world, exacerbated by the \u201cphenomenal\u201d power of the media, yet this is \u201cprimarily not a steering by individuals; the most fundamental steering is impersonal in nature \u2026 driven by an ideology \u2014 a way of thinking\u201d (p. 131). And again: \u201cThe ultimate master is the ideology, not the elite\u201d (p. 134). Thus, no one is to blame. There are no hidden agendas or class forces, no bad actors pulling the strings from off stage.<\/p>\n

In the real world, meanwhile, as the Covid nightmare continues to unfold, those who tune and transmit the messages to do harm are once more making themselves, and their messages of \u201cmoral persuasion\u201d (Mohamed,\u00a02017<\/a>, p. 781), known. With vaccine deaths accumulating and public aversion to the \u201cvaccination\u201d campaign on the rise, rather than \u201csensing what people crave\u201d (i.e. an end to Nuremberg Code violations through relentless pressure to take experimental injections\u00a0containing all manner of undisclosed ingredients<\/a>) and \u201cadjust[ing] their plans accordingly\u201d (Desmet 2022, p. 134), the Rockefeller Foundation is spearheading a brand new propaganda offensive.<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0from the Rockefeller Foundation on August 23, 2022 reads, \u201cThrough the\u00a0Mercury Project<\/a>\u2014enabled by The Rockefeller Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a total of USD 10.25 million so far\u2014the SSRC is supporting a first cohort of social and behavioral scientists from around the world to generate much-needed new research on \u2026 low Covid-19 vaccination rates \u2026 [and] to identify interventions with the potential to increase vaccination take-up.\u201d Yet, according to Desmet, \u201c[elite] plans and visions are not \u2026 \u2018forced\u2019 on the population\u201d (p. 134).<\/p>\n

Which belies the fact that identifying the instigators of atrocities committed in the name of Covid-19 is not rocket science. It is, rather, basic social science (deMerritt,\u00a02016<\/a>; Kelman,\u00a02005<\/a>; Mandel,\u00a02022b<\/a>; Robinson,\u00a02022<\/a>; Ruggiero,\u00a02007<\/a>), political science (Phillips,\u00a02018<\/a>; Hughes,\u00a02022a<\/a>), and investigative reporting (Corbett,\u00a02017<\/a>,\u00a02022<\/a>; Davis,\u00a02022<\/a>; Kennedy Jr.,\u00a02021<\/a>; Vedmore,\u00a02022<\/a>). The\u00a0conflicts of interest<\/a>\u00a0running through Covid policy lead predictably back through domestic and international \u201cpublic-private partnerships\u201d and governing institutions to Big Finance, central banks, and their founding banking families (Children\u2019s Health Defense,\u00a02021<\/a>; Mercola,\u00a02022b<\/a>). A useful\u00a0visualization<\/a>\u00a0of contemporary global power structures is provided by Davis (2021<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As vampiric practices of capitalism engorge themselves on humanity in its transition through inverted totalitarianism (Wolin,\u00a02004<\/a>, cf. Hedges,\u00a02015<\/a>) to more recognizable forms of totalitarianism involving Nazism (Hughes,\u00a02022a<\/a>) and eugenics (Kyrie & Broudy,\u00a02022c<\/a>; Loffredo & Webb,\u00a02020b<\/a>; Matters,\u00a02021<\/a>), given a yet more evil twist through sexual blackmail operations involving children (Webb,\u00a02022<\/a>), the conclusion that, \u201cthe essence of totalitarianism is not utilitarian or selfish in nature\u201d (Desmet,\u00a02022<\/a>, p. 112) is impossible to maintain. Indeed, history teaches that the \u201cgreater good\u201d is often an illusion, designed to mask the pursuit of ruling class interests.<\/p>\n

The Anatomy of Atrocity<\/h2>\n

In order to deform the body politic such that everyday roles and relationships sustain the deadly dance of victims, perpetrators and bystanders, the psychological ingredients of atrocity-generating conditions must be activated. These psychological ingredients are putty in instigators\u2019 hands. Group-based processes such as conformity (Tritsch, 2013) and reality-sharing (Echterhoff & Higgins,\u00a02018<\/a>; Jost et al.,\u00a02008<\/a>; Wan et al.,\u00a02010<\/a>), for instance, which are cornerstones of Desmet\u2019s thesis, are well-known targets in mobilising populations for war, hatred and violence (Durrheim et al.,\u00a02016<\/a>; Rath,\u00a02016<\/a>; Reicher et al.,\u00a02005<\/a>). Official enemies are created and maintained (The Virus™, the unvaccinated \/ anti-vaxxers), fear and rage are mobilized (eg with \u201cnudge\u201d units), violent, oppressive solutions are proposed (denial of treatment, lethal \u201cvaccines\u201d, vaccine mandates, vaccine apartheid) and dissenters are punished, pilloried and smeared, driving widespread retreat into the safety of conformist groups. Thus, by exploiting the human needs for physical and social survival a war is born, not as a spontaneous accident erupting from the subconscious of malcontent populations, but carefully imposed from conception through planning to its incarnation in flesh and blood (eg Kramer et al.,\u00a02005<\/a>; Klein & Lavery,\u00a02011<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Paradoxically, the Mass Formation thesis itself embodies important psychological aspects of such atrocity-generation, and serves in its own way \u2014 however inadvertently \u2014 to tune and transmit messages to do harm.<\/p>\n

System Justification<\/h2>\n

Take, for instance, the neutralizing influence of what is known as \u201csystem justification\u201d. System justification consists of a variety of social-psychological blind-spots that serve to conceal systemic societal failures. Described as a \u201cfundamental delusion\u201d about the social and political world (Cichocka & Jost, 2014, p.10), system justification is driven by the motive to view one\u2019s own social systems \u2014 one\u2019s governments, institutions and authorities \u2014 as legitimate, right, fair and just (Jost,\u00a02018<\/a>; Jost et al.,\u00a02015<\/a>). When confronted with evidence to the contrary, the predominant human impulse is to distort reality-perception so as to maintain the preferred view of the system as legitimate (eg see Blasi & Jost,\u00a02006<\/a>; Jost,\u00a02018<\/a>). System-justifying strategies include refusal to engage with evidence, blanket endorsement and\/or defense of the status quo, discrediting the source of the information, e.g. as \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d, blaming victims, and adopting system-justifying ideologies, such as an ideology in which mass harm is caused by \u201ceveryone and no-one\u201d (Desmet,\u00a02022<\/a>, p. 120).<\/p>\n

To see how reality-perception gets distorted through system justification, consider Desmet\u2019s views on \u201clockdowns.\u201d \u201cDuring the coronavirus crisis,\u201d he writes, \u201ca large part of the population accepted with remarkable ease measures that destroyed their enjoyment of life, freedom, and prosperity\u201d (p. 102). This is reminiscent of the \u201cmillions in [Nazi] Germany [who] were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it\u201d (Fromm, 1942, p. 3).<\/p>\n

Such an extraordinary phenomenon, which runs contrary to human nature and self-interest, does not happen by accident. In the Covid-19 context, we are almost certainly looking at an extremely well-planned psychological warfare operation, modeled on techniques developed in Nazi Germany, intended to destroy liberal democracy by rendering the bulk of the population unwilling or unable to fight to defend freedom (Hughes\u00a02022a<\/a>). Yet in Desmet\u2019s depoliticized world, the reason why people were willing to put up with so much pain and suffering is that a \u201chypnotic story\u201d focused their attention on a \u201csmall aspect of reality to such a degree that everything outside it, including one\u2019s own pain and to a broader extent, one\u2019s own interests, passes unnoticed\u201d (p. 102). There is no consideration of who was telling that \u201chypnotic story,\u201d to what end, or what perception management techniques were used to sell it.<\/p>\n

Instead, Desmet tries making his case using a bizarre surgical analogy: \u201cWith a simple hypnotic procedure, patients can be anesthetized to such a degree that surgical incisions can be made painlessly\u201d (p. 102). Appearing on\u00a0InfoWars<\/em>, Desmet claimed to have witnessed\u00a0with his own eyes<\/a>\u00a0open heart surgery being performed using hypnosis in place of anesthetic \u2014 and later\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0this was not true. Is Desmet\u2019s flight into surreal explanations a psychological defense mechanism intended to shut out the trauma of the \u201clockdowns\u201d and to maintain the delusion that a system at war with the people is fundamentally humane?<\/p>\n

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Among the systemic flaws capable of provoking system justification is the innocent victim. Victims of harm, particularly innocent victims and victims of unpunished crime, have been found to threaten observers\u2019 beliefs in a just world, leading to defensive victim-blaming (Correia et al.,\u00a02012<\/a>; Hafer,\u00a02000<\/a>; Tarrant et al.,\u00a02011<\/a>; van Prooijen & van den Bos,\u00a02009<\/a>). The effect has been demonstrated for crimes including rape, human trafficking, hate-crimes and genocide (Castano & Giner-Sorolla,\u00a02006<\/a>; Ek,\u00a02019<\/a>; Mallett et al.,\u00a02011<\/a>; Stahl et al.,\u00a02010<\/a>; Sullivan et al.,\u00a02016<\/a>).<\/p>\n

There are shades of victim-blaming in\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>. Those caught in the grip of Mass Formation, Desmet argues, \u201cstill have the ability to make ethical choices\u201d and so should not be \u201cforgiven just like that\u201d for the crimes they commit (p. 108). In contrast, \u201cthose who guide the masses\u201d are so innocent that they are \u201clike a child sitting on the bow of a ship and turning a toy steering wheel every time the tanker changes direction\u201d (p. 134). In one troubling passage, Desmet writes:<\/p>\n

Think of 425 young Dutch Jews who, after fighting with a German security police detachment, were tortured for months on end in Buchenwald, to the point of death. Still, the extent to which victims repeatedly complied with the plans of Nazi executioners should not be ignored from a psychological perspective; apparently many of them were also in the grip of mass formation (p. 109).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here, the act of resistance and the force of the atrocity barely register; Nazi terror is not discussed. Instead, Desmet makes it seem like a mystery why so many Jews compliantly boarded the trains to the death camps, knowing what awaited them (p. 109). With state terror and atrocity having been elided, there is almost the suggestion that the Jews should have done more to resist; only Mass Formation explains why they did not. Not just the Jews, but the masses as a whole appear to be blamed for their \u201calmost limitless tolerance for the enormous personal damage the population endured\u201d under twentieth-century totalitarianism (p. 103). One is reminded of Aleister Crowley\u2019s description of \u201cthe people\u201d as \u201cthat canting, whining, servile breed of whipped dogs which refuses to admit its deity\u201d (1975, 116). An elitist disdain for the masses appears to lurk just below the surface of the Mass Formation thesis.<\/p>\n

In reading Desmet, it is hardly possible to shake the feeling that we have heard the same sorts of caricatures propagated about the public before. Notable among them is Walter Lippmann\u2019s eloquent characterization in\u00a0The Phantom Public<\/em>\u00a0(1925) that common citizens live in a world they cannot see, cannot hope to grasp nor direct its course. We common citizens are merely outsiders \u201cnecessarily ignorant, usually irrelevant and often meddlesome, because [we are] trying to navigate the ship from dry land\u201d (p. 140). Since democracy is incapable, in Lippmann\u2019s view, of delivering on its promised freedoms, but leads only to \u201cdisillusionment and meddlesome tyranny,\u201d the \u201cpublic must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, \u2026 so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of the bewildered herd\u201d (p. 145).<\/p>\n

Further, in his seminal work\u00a0Propaganda<\/em>\u00a0(1928), Edward Bernays offers similar generalizations, presupposing citizens \u201chave voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed by practical proportions\u201d (p. 11). This is likely why we find academics today, Desmet among them, who suppose that they are merely building upon the foundations of their esteemed forebears by supporting the invisible powers that be, who arrogate to themselves license to enact a plethora of harms upon citizens. To wit, the Mass Formation thesis forms part of an intellectual tradition whereby the masses get the propaganda, according to Lippmann and Bernays, and the totalitarianism, according to Desmet, that their base psychological functioning demands.<\/p>\n

In addition to victim-blaming, system justification fosters resistance to holding perpetrators accountable. System-justifying tendencies have been found to promote acceptance of corruption (Tan et al.,\u00a02017<\/a>), tolerance for civilian casualties during war (Friedman & Sutton, 2013, in Jost,\u00a02018<\/a>) \u2014 \u201cwe don\u2019t do body counts\u201d (Williams,\u00a02005<\/a>) \u2014 and lack of support for hate crime legislation (Mallett et al.,\u00a02011<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Under the influence of system-justifying delusions \u201cour\u201d wars are humanitarian, \u201cour\u201d tyranny is democratic, and \u201cour\u201d atrocities are perpetrated with the best of intent. Accordingly, \u201cOfficial Sources\u201d and \u201cThe Science\u201d may conduct mass extermination under the rubric of \u201cpublic health\u201d.<\/p>\n

With its refusal to entertain the possibility that \u201celite\u201d actors can behave with any\u00a0mens rea<\/em>, and its insinuation that the masses are somehow responsible for their own abuse,\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u00a0is not only influenced by, but predicated upon, system-justifying foundations. The Mass Formation thesis throws up a swarm of starlings between the reader and a predator class (see \u2018dark leadership\u2019 research such as Chen et al.,\u00a02020<\/a>; Peterson & Palmer,\u00a02021<\/a>; Wisse & Sleebos,\u00a02016<\/a>), whose long history of fraud, bloodshed and state-corporate crime is well-documented (Blum\u00a02006<\/a>; Chomsky\u00a02006<\/a>; Chomsky\u00a02007<\/a>; Valentine\u00a02017<\/a>; Scott\u00a02017<\/a>; Hughes,\u00a02022a<\/a>). In this way, while psychoanalyzing tyranny, the theory paradoxically serves as an attractive and intellectually satisfying system-justifying veil behind which the architects of atrocity can hide.<\/p>\n

Moral Disengagement<\/h2>\n

A means of distorting reality so as to maintain a system-justifying worldview is to morally disengage.\u00a0Moral disengagement<\/a>\u00a0is a psychological process by which a specific event, such as mass extermination, can be placed outside the boundaries of one\u2019s usual moral frame (Bandura,\u00a01999<\/a>; Opotow,\u00a01990<\/a>). A common device for achieving this is sanitizing language (Bandura, 2002; Cohen,\u00a02001<\/a>). Wrapped in the balm of neutral and forgettable terms, harm is rhetorically cleansed (e.g. Poole, 2007), the reality fails to emotionally register, and indifference is invoked (Passini,\u00a02017<\/a>). Hence, the banality of evil. Just as sexually\u00a0assaulting victims with medical equipment<\/a>\u00a0was described as \u201cenhanced interrogation<\/a>\u201d in the War on Terror, so mass killing is disguised using anodyne-sounding medical language for the War on Covid-19™.<\/p>\n

In the same vein, the very term \u201cMass Formation\u201d is sanitizing. Tellingly, Desmet is\u00a0keen to distinguish<\/a>\u00a0it from the term with which his work is commonly associated, i.e. \u201cMass Formation Psychosis.\u201d \u201cPsychosis\u201d gets us closer to the phenomenon that Desmet is really referring to. According to Versluis, for instance, \u201cthe totalitarian systems of the 20th century represent a kind of collective psychosis\u201d (2006<\/a>, 143). However, this then quickly leads to the themes of barbarism and atrocity which Desmet seems at pains to avoid in the Covid context. Carl Jung, trying to make sense of the Hitler years in 1945, reflects:<\/p>\n

The phenomenon we have witnessed in Germany was nothing less than the first outbreak of epidemic insanity, an irruption of the unconscious into what seemed to be a tolerably well-ordered world. A whole nation, as well as countless millions belonging to other nations, were swept into the blood-drenched madness of a war of extermination. No one knew what was happening to [them], least of all the Germans, who allowed themselves to be driven to the slaughterhouse by their leading psychopaths like hypnotized sheep. (Jung 1970, 212)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such a \u201cmass psychosis,\u201d Jung adds, was evident from the moment Hitler seized power, yet \u201cI could not help telling myself that this was after all Germany, a civilized European nation with a sense of morality [\u2026]\u201d (Jung 1970, 236). For those who remain unhypnotized, the parallels between what Jung describes and life in the \u201ccivilized West\u201d today are ominous. Covid-19 did indeed unleash an outbreak of epidemic insanity through all the deliberately absurd \u201cmeasures,\u201d and most of the population continues to get swept along, unthinkingly, by propaganda for whatever the latest official narrative is: support for Ukraine (despite\u00a0political opposition being banned<\/a>\u00a0there and\u00a0Nazi groups operating<\/a>), reverence for the Royal Family (despite its\u00a0dark history<\/a>\u00a0and proven close ties to Jimmy Savile and Jeffrey Epstein), and so on. Today\u2019s \u201cleading psychopaths\u201d are apparently driving the \u201chypnotized sheep\u201d wherever they like, and the last time this occurred it ended in World War II and the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

Desmet naturalizes, and thereby tacitly legitimizes such mass psychosis as Mass Formation by claiming that it occurs just as \u201ccomplex, dynamic systems organize themselves in nature\u201d (p. 125). The maneuver can be understood as embodying a morally disengaging strategy known as the \u201cagentless passive voice\u201d, which psychologist Albert Bandura describes as an \u201cexonerative tool. It creates the appearance that reprehensible acts are the work of nameless forces, rather than people. It is as though people are moved mechanically but are not really the agents of their own acts\u201d (Bandura, 2002, p. 105). Desmet also\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0that Mass Formation emerged \u201cin a more or less spontaneous way\u201d in Nazi Germany, ignoring the role of the mass media and Goebbels\u2019 mastery of propaganda.<\/p>\n

Totalitarian mass psychosis does not just arise organically, however. Rather, it is deliberately inculcated by the ruling class. The real lesson from Nazi Germany is that<\/p>\n

\u2026 [m]ass delusion can be induced. It is simply a question of organizing and manipulating collective feelings in the proper way. If one can isolate the mass, allow no free thinking, no free exchanges, no outside corrective, and can hypnotize the group daily with noises, with press and radio and television, with fear and pseudo-enthusiasms, any delusion can be instilled. People will begin to accept the most primitive and inappropriate acts. (Meerloo\u00a01956<\/a>, 202-3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These techniques \u2014 isolation, monopolization of perception, fear-mongering, etc. \u2014 were integral to the Covid psychological operation and explain the willingness of the deluded masses to adopt the most primitive, inappropriate, and harmful of behaviors, such as\u00a0mask wearing<\/a>\u00a0and neurotically avoiding other people. We know that Allen Dulles was tapping Jung for psychological profiles of Hitler and other Nazi leaders as early as 1943 (Kinzer\u00a02013<\/a>, p. 71), and it is almost certain that the CIA would have paid close attention to proven techniques for manufacturing mass psychosis in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

In keeping with the language of atrocity,\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u00a0describes the carnage of Covid countermeasures in detached and minimizing terms. For example, Desmet uses the military euphemism \u201ccollateral damage\u201d to refer to \u201cpeople who fall victim as a result of the measures\u201d (p. 102) \u2014 ignoring the fact that the \u201cmeasures\u201d were cast as necessary tactics in a \u201cwar\u201d against the virus, as part of what General Pompeo called a \u201clive exercise<\/a>.\u201d The victims include those who died in care homes, those who died because of postponed medical treatments, victims of domestic violence (which increased during \u201clockdown\u201d), and, most tellingly, \u201cpeople affected by side effects of vaccination\u201d (p. 102). \u201cSide effects.\u201d Those two soothing words are as close as Desmet comes to considering the hundreds of thousands to millions maimed and killed by the so-called Covid-19 \u201cvaccines\u201d (Altman et al.,\u00a02022<\/a>, pp. 21-23; Armstrong,\u00a02021<\/a>; Beattie,\u00a02021<\/a>; Expose,\u00a02022b<\/a>; Goss,\u00a02022<\/a>; Oller & Santiago,\u00a02022<\/a>; Redshaw,\u00a02022<\/a>). In a diagram depicting the victims of coronavirus measures (Figure 6.2, p. 101), there is no mention of \u201cvaccine\u201d victims. Nowhere in the book on Mass Formation are the terms \u201cmyocarditis,\u201d \u201cblood clot\u201d or \u201cstroke\u201d to be encountered. All of which illustrates a second tactic for eliciting moral disengagement:\u00a0out-of-sight-out-of-mind<\/em>\u00a0(Bandura, 2002; Cohen,\u00a02001<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Moral Erasure: Experimenting on Human Beings and Evidence of Democide<\/h2>\n

Albert Bandura, who pioneered moral disengagement theory, made the simple observation that, \u201cit is easier to harm others when their suffering is not visible\u201d (Bandura, 2002, p. 108). To enable the perpetration of inhumanities, then, the human consequences of those inhumanities must be morally erased, by being disregarded, ignored, denied, or justified and sanctified, such that horror is perceptually excised (Bandura, 2002; Cohen,\u00a02001<\/a>). We see this phenomenon in action in Desmet\u2019s overlooking of the mass experimentation on human beings that has taken place in the name of dealing with Covid-19, as well as his downplaying of eugenics experiments and other crimes against humanity in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cExperimentation on humans is the prototypical activity of totalitarianism,\u201d Desmet writes with respect to Nazi concentration camps (p. 112). He does not mention Josef Mengele\u2019s eugenics experiments on concentration camp inmates, however. Rather, the \u201clabor camps\u201d were \u201cpilot projects for an ideal society, where an elite learns how to subject a population to its ideology\u201d and were \u201cnot profitable at all, barely even self-sufficient\u201d (p. 112). Slave labour and mass murder, thus, recede from view as concentration camps acquire an unexpected utopian aspect.<\/p>\n

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Block 10<\/em><\/a>, a cellblock at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp where women and men were used as experimental subjects for Nazi doctors. By V Manninen, licensed under\u00a0<\/em>CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Correspondingly, Desmet neglects to mention the fact that, under Covid, the entire world has been transformed into a single, giant site of medical experimentation, with\u00a05.45 billion people<\/a>\u00a0(as of 21 November 2022) \u2014 about 70 percent of the human race \u2014 having taken one or more unlicensed, experimental injections with no long-term safety data. As\u00a0Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0put it in April 2022, \u201cwe\u2019ve now, essentially, clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor does Desmet mention the \u201clargest psychological experiment ever\u201d \u2014 worldwide \u201clockdowns\u201d \u2014 which the\u00a0World Economic Forum<\/a>\u00a0in April 2020 knew would have \u201ctoxic effects.\u201d Indeed, the Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) was enough to show the catastrophic impact of a simulated prison environment on the mental health of previously well-adjusted people, including \u201cemotional breakdowns and irrational thinking\u201d on the part of the prisoners and \u201cabusive and hostile\u201d behavior on the part of the guards, some of whom \u201ceven qualified as sadistic torturers\u201d (Zimbardo, 2005, p. 139). Add to these measures the \u201cstrategically [\u2026] heightened emotional distress<\/a>\u201d inflicted by governments on their citizens to achieve behavior modification, plus the Zoom culture that \u201cnegatively affects our sense of mental well-being\u201d (Schwab and Malleret,\u00a02020<\/a>, 162) \u2014 and the case for psychological warfare becomes strong.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the results were consistent with a campaign of psychological warfare. Critics have pointed to \u201cheightened levels of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and complicated bereavement\u201d (Marmarosh et al.\u00a02020<\/a>, 122). Dutch researchers found that one in three people experienced a deterioration in their mental health during the first \u201clockdown\u201d (van der Pijl 2022, 29). One meta-analysis of different studies finds that \u201cindividuals may experience symptoms of psychosis, anxiety, trauma, suicidal thoughts, and panic attacks\u201d as a result of the \u201cpandemic\u201d (Salari et al.\u00a02020<\/a>). According to the Office for National Statistics (2020<\/a>), the rate of depression among UK adults rose from 10 percent (July 2019 \u2013 March 2020) to 19 percent (June \u2013 November 2020); 60 percent of adults reported feeling stressed or anxious; and 34 percent reported a deterioration in their mental health (in keeping with a report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists [2022]). A 2022 meta-analysis finds that the first UK \u201clockdown\u201d increased the rate of depression eight-fold, from four percent to 32 percent (Dettmann et al.\u00a02022<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The population was also experimented on via other non-pharmaceutical interventions. According to the\u00a0WHO on 5 June 2020<\/a>, \u201cAt present, there is no direct evidence (from studies on Covid-19 and in healthy people in the community) on the effectiveness of universal masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including Covid-19\u201d \u2014 yet, in the same document, the WHO recommends that \u201cgovernments should encourage the general public to wear masks in specific situations and settings.\u201d Six days later, a scientific literature review confirmed that \u201cno study exists that shows a benefit from a broad policy to wear masks in public\u201d (Rancourt\u00a02020<\/a>). Martin (2021<\/a>, p. 25) is, therefore, correct to claim that \u201cAll parties mandating the use of face masks are \u2026 engaging in what amounts to a whole population clinical trial.\u201d Similarly for \u201csocial distancing\u201d: \u201cTo date, not a single study has confirmed that social distancing of any population prevented the transmission of, or the infection by, SARS CoV-2\u201d (Martin\u00a02021<\/a>, p. 25). Billions of people, thus, became unwilling test subjects in a worldwide experiment. As the\u00a0World Economic Forum<\/a>\u00a0reflects, \u201cCovid-19 was the test of social responsibility [read compliance] \u2013 A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Desmet cites studies reporting that \u201cmice are 40 percent more likely to die from viral infections due to experimentally induced stress,\u201d and that the same mechanisms that cause reduced immunity are also present in humans, such that \u201cstress leads to a higher mortality rate\u201d (p. 167). This is \u201cimportant for the coronavirus crisis,\u201d he notes, because of the viral aspect. He fails to consider, however, that perhaps the human population is now being subjected to experimentally induced stress. Schwab and Malleret, for instance, refer to the \u201clockdowns\u201d as \u201cthe period of acute stress\u201d (2020, p. 159), acute stress being characterized in a report on torture by \u201cshock response, sudden reflex, fight or flight,\u201d corresponding to \u201ccapture in war\u201d (Amnesty 1973, p. 35). Acute stress is not necessarily a bad thing: it represents a short-term adaptive reaction to challenges and forms \u201cpart of the survival mechanism,\u201d potentially enhancing the immune response; chronic or long-term stress, in contrast, is maladaptive and has detrimental effects on both physical and mental health \u2014 it \u201charms immune response\u201d (Rancourt et al. 2021, p. 133).<\/p>\n

Rancourt et al. (2021, p. 134) find that all-cause mortality data from the United States for 2020\u201321 is radically inconsistent with a purported viral \u201cpandemic\u201d (because of jurisdictional heterogeneity, also found in the UK [Kendrick\u00a02022<\/a>]), yet wholly consistent with the chronic stress generated by the enormous socio-economic disruptions brought about through Covid policy, which disproportionately impacted those at the bottom of the \u201csocietal dominance hierarchy\u201d with the fewest means to adapt. They claim that:<\/p>\n

\u2026 in circumstances where large populations of vulnerable and susceptible residents have suppressed immune systems from chronic psychological stress induced by large-scale socio-economic disruption, [\u2026] the state has recreated the conditions that produced the horrendous bacterial pneumonia epidemic of 1918. (Rancourt et al. 2021, pp. 136-7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, wartime conditions. The scale of socio-economic disruption seen under Covid has only ever been witnessed in times of war.<\/p>\n

Rancourt et al. (2021, pp. 135-7) go further by claiming that there was a bacterial pneumonia epidemic in the United States in 2020\/21, as there was in 1918-1920, to which most \u201cCovid-19\u201d deaths were misattributed (2021, pp. 121, 135-7). They note that antibiotic prescriptions which might have treated bacterial pneumonia fell by half in March\/April 2020. This is particularly suspicious given the remarkable \u201csimilarity in state-wise distributions of life expectancy at birth [\u2026] and antibiotic prescriptions\u201d that would automatically point towards the wisdom of maintaining antibiotic availability, regardless of Covid-19 (Rancourt et al. 2021, p. 131). Safe and effective therapeutic agents such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were deliberately suppressed, creating comparable conditions to 1918\u201320, when antibiotics had not yet been discovered (2021, pp. 136-7). These facts lead to troubling questions about intent and possible democide, and Rancourt et al. (2021, p. 132) are clear that \u201caggressive government and medical response to the WHO 11 March 2020 declaration of a pandemic\u201d \u2014 and not the virus \u2014 was responsible for most of the deaths during the so-called \u201cfirst wave.\u201d Moreover, further unexpected upsurges in all-cause mortality in the United States \u2014 during the summer of 2020, winter 2020\/21, and the summer of 2021 \u2014 also reflect \u201cdeaths induced by the government measures, via the combined poverty, obesity and climatic factors, made potent by sustained chronic psychological stress\u201d (Rancourt et al. 2021, p. 115).<\/p>\n

Moral Justification: State-sponsored Euthanasia<\/h2>\n

In addition to minimizing, denying and ignoring the inhumanity of atrocities, an important \u201cset of disengagement practices operates on the reconstruction of the behavior itself\u2026 In this process of moral justification, pernicious conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it as serving socially worthy or moral purposes\u201d (Bandura, 2002, p. 103).<\/p>\n

Such moral justification facilitates victimization of specific groups by enabling \u201cexclusion of target groups from protection of the state,\u201d explains Herbert C. Kelman (2005<\/a>, p. 128), psychologist and Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. Ervin Staub (1999<\/a>), psychologist and scholar of genocide, adds that, \u201climited discrimination changes to progressively greater discrimination, persecution, and violence against victimized groups. With \u2018steps along a continuum of destruction,\u2019 this can lead to mass killing or genocide\u201d (p. 307). In the state response to Covid-19, under practices amounting to euthanasia in the name of a \u201cgood death\u201d, all of these psychological processes have been on display. All, however, are absent from\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Desmet notes that the Nazis \u201ccalled death in the gas chambers \u2018death of grace\u2019 (i.e. the least painful solution for people they felt were better off dead than alive)\u201d (p. 108). Yet, he has nothing to say about Conservative MP Luke Evans asking Health Secretary Matt Hancock whether the NHS had enough syringe drivers, midazolam and morphine to be able to provide a \u201cgood death\u201d for patients (a crude euphemism for euthanasia) during the\u00a0House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee<\/a>\u00a0on 17 April 2020. French company Accord Healthcare had just sold\u00a0two years\u2019 worth of midazolam<\/a>\u00a0stock to UK wholesalers at the request of the NHS in March 2020. There was a\u00a0huge spike<\/a>\u00a0in the prescription of midazolam hydrochloride in GP practices across NHS England in April 2020. Clare Wills Harrison and Mark Oakford provide a\u00a0graph<\/a>\u00a0plotting midazolam prescriptions and all-cause mortality in the over-65s between January 2020 and March 2021: the former leads the latter, raising the possibility of what Harrison calls a \u201cpre-planned, heavily inappropriate use of midazolam in care homes, hospices and hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n

National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline\u00a0NG163<\/a>\u00a0(published 3 April 2020) recommends: \u201cWhen managing key symptoms of COVID-19 in the last hours and days of life, follow the relevant parts of NICE guideline [NG31] on care of dying adults in the last days of life. This includes pharmacological interventions and anticipatory prescribing.\u201d Concerned doctors pointed out in May 2020, however, that NG31 (2015) is based on terminal cancer patients and was aimed at people likely to die imminently from \u201cadvanced diseases, from which recovery was deemed most improbable\u201d (Ahmedzai et al.\u00a02020<\/a>).\u00a0NG163<\/a>\u00a0(in its original formulation) tacitly encouraged practitioners to treat elderly people with Covid-19 as nearing the end of life and to apply palliative care accordingly. It also states: \u201cSedation and opioid use should not be withheld because of a fear of causing respiratory depression.\u201d Yet, according to retired neurologist Patrick Pullucino, \u201cmidazolam depresses respiration and it hastens death. It changes end of life care into euthanasia,\u201d in line with the theoretically retired Liverpool Care Pathway (cited in Adams and Bancroft\u00a02020<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Freelance journalist Jacqui Deevoy exposes the UK midazolam scandal in her documentary,\u00a0A Good Death?<\/em><\/a>. The film contains numerous testimonials from adult relatives of elderly victims who were put on midazolam against their family\u2019s wishes. In the words of one such relative, \u201cWhat they [the doctors and nurses] are doing is involuntary euthanasia,\u201d because of lack of informed consent from either the victim or their family. Another relative opines: \u201cIf [medical professionals have] been asked to withdraw all observations without telling the family, to me it seems that\u2019s murder by stealth.\u201d Another claims: \u201cThey hid it from us. They hid what was going on.\u201d According to another, \u201cThe consultant said to us: it comes from above. What we do in here is all protocol\u201d (one is tempted to say: following orders).<\/p>\n

Consistent themes among the testimonials include: deliberate starvation and dehydration of patients; administering excess dosages of midazolam (often in conjunction with morphine, which is contraindicated in MHRA guidance); family wishes being ignored; nurses claiming that midazolam aids the respiratory system when in fact it does the opposite; the resultant deaths being blamed on Covid-19; and cremation without autopsy to show the true cause of death. One victim before her death told her son: \u201cGet a wheelchair and get me out of this hospital now. They\u2019re trying to kill me.\u201d Stuart Wilkie in the film likens the use of midazolam to prolonged torture, gradually reducing the number of breaths per minute over the course of 29 hours. From the victim\u2019s perspective, he adds, \u201cYou know that the person who walks into the room and puts that drug into your body is slowly killing you.\u201d The victim, under a cocktail of medications, is robbed of the opportunity to see a priest or make any deathbed confessions.<\/p>\n

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Syringe containing morphine and midazolam, both respiratory depressants. From \u2018<\/em>A Good Death<\/em><\/a>?\u2019 by Jacqui Deevoy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The danger is that the state-sanctioned euthanasia we have witnessed represents the thin end of the wedge. The origins of Nazi genocide, for instance, can be traced back to earlier euthanasia programs (Friedlander,\u00a01995<\/a>). The Nazi extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals during the war years was foreshadowed by the state-sanctioned sterilization and later \u201cmercy killing\u201d of people with disabilities (Mostert,\u00a02002<\/a>). The \u201clife not worthy of life\u201d concept, which found expression in the 1933 \u201cLaw for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring,\u201d formed the basis of the \u201csupreme duty of a national state to grant life and livelihood only to the healthy and hereditarily sound portion of the people,\u201d to quote Nazi Public Health Director Arthur Guett (Ehret,\u00a02021<\/a>). \u201cEuthanasia killing\u201d soon morphed into \u201ckilling the sick\u201d (Foth,\u00a02014<\/a>). The notorious\u00a0Aktion T4<\/a>\u00a0program (1939-1945) killed an estimated 250,000-300,000 disabled people \u2014 first children, then adults (using \u201cgassing installations\u201d). The path from here to the Final Solution is not hard to fathom.<\/p>\n

Hancock is a key representative of a 21st-century eugenics agenda. In November 2020, he announced travel exemptions for those seeking to travel abroad for\u00a0assisted dying<\/a>. In May 2021, he took the \u201cfirst steps towards legalizing\u00a0assisted suicide<\/a>\u201d by asking for official figures on how many people who have killed themselves for medical reasons, paving the way for Baroness Meacher to campaign for the\u00a0Assisted Dying Bill<\/a>. In June 2021, Hancock hinted in the House of Commons that those who refuse Covid-19 \u201cvaccination\u201d should be\u00a0deprioritized for NHS treatment<\/a>. He also resigned as Health Secretary that month when the midazolam revelations surfaced, video footage of his extramarital affair having been held back until then. In August 2022, he called for a Parliamentary inquiry and\u00a0free vote on assisted dying<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of this is evidence of eugenics \u2014 not just in the UK, but internationally (Ehret\u00a02021<\/a>). Yet, eugenics barely features in\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>. If anything, Desmet seems rather partial to eugenics, noting that Plato found it a \u201ccommendable practice\u201d and that it \u201clead [sic.] to certain \u2018successes\u2019\u201d in the twentieth century (p. 47). \u201cWe have to seriously ask ourselves,\u201d he claims: \u201cWhy not follow the principle of eugenics?\u201d (p. 48). Despite the known historical trajectory from Nazi eugenics beliefs, through the sterilization and murder of the disabled, all the way through to genocide and the Final Solution, the main problem with eugenics, from Desmet\u2019s perspective, is simply that it \u201chas more disadvantages than advantages\u201d (p. 48).<\/p>\n

Derogation of Moral Advocates<\/h2>\n

In order to psychologically enforce moral disengagement from atrocities, \u201cderogation of moral advocates\u201d is deployed. Research indicates that those who denounce their own society\u2019s immoral activity typically attract derision, and are perceived negatively by the bystanding group (for instance as selfish, arrogant, annoying, traitorous and insulting) (Bashir,\u00a02014<\/a>; Bashir et al., 2013; O\u2019Brien & Crandall,\u00a02005<\/a>; Sumanth et al.,\u00a02011<\/a>). The author of the concept writes, \u201cA growing body of research demonstrates\u2026 that individuals who take a stand against immoral behaviors (i.e., moral advocates) can elicit scorn rather than admiration\u201d (Bashir,\u00a02014<\/a>, p. 1). That scorn arises not from a belief in the moral conduct of the society in question, but out of concern \u201cabout how the advocates have made their group look in the eyes of others\u201d (Bashir,\u00a02014<\/a>, p. 3). To defend the group\u2019s social image, \u201cgroup members seem to adopt a \u2018shoot the messenger\u2019 approach\u201d (Bashir,\u00a02014<\/a>, p. 30).<\/p>\n

As a textbook illustration of the tactic, Desmet devotes a whole chapter to disparaging those who seek to hold powerful actors or interest groups accountable for the deaths, destruction, and tyranny of Covid-19 as conspiracy theorists. He brands their views \u201csimplistic and caricatural\u201d (p. 138), laboring under a Mass Formation of their own, teetering on the brink of the \u201cabsurd\u201d and \u201cfanatical\u201d (p. 128). Desmet derogates such moral advocates by association with anecdotes involving \u201cextraterrestrial\u201d beings, lizard people, flat Earth theory, and satanism (pp. 124, 128, 130).<\/p>\n

Branding moral advocates as conspiracy theorists, while tarring them by association with \u201cabsurd\u201d and \u201cfanatical\u201d claims, however, not only serves to undergird moral disengagement, it carries increasingly tangible real-world implications. Desmet himself is aware that \u201cthe self-destructiveness of totalitarian systems typically reaches its peak the moment the system succeeds in gagging any dissenting voice and silencing the opposition\u201d (p. 116). He also cites Gustave Le Bon on the importance of \u201cdissonant voices\u201d reducing the \u201cdepth of the hypnosis,\u201d thereby \u201chelping to prevent the masses from committing atrocities\u201d (p. 141).<\/p>\n

Desmet\u2019s is not one of those \u201cdissonant voices.\u201d\u00a0He himself admits that<\/a>\u00a0he is \u201ccareful not to interpret what happened too much in terms of conspiracy.\u201d Doing so, he claims, would have put his speech \u201cat risk of being cancelled.\u201d In other words, Desmet deliberately chooses not to speak truth to power, even though he\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0to advocate for \u201cTruth Speech.\u201d He continues: \u201cI acknowledge that this is hardly an excuse. If crimes happen, if large numbers of people die, it doesn\u2019t matter what your expertise is. Every decent human being will recognize as his or her duty to simply articulate what everyone can see.\u201d Yet, sadly, in his studied avoidance of themes relating to mass atrocity, he fails to do just that.<\/p>\n

Worse still, his analysis actually assists governing institutions to gag dissent by labelling it as \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d, which a\u00a02021 European Commission report<\/a>\u00a0has equated with \u201cextremism\u201d and \u201cradicalization\u201d and which the\u00a0US Department of Homeland Security<\/a>\u00a0blames for \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d The European Commission report warns that \u201canti-establishment and anti-elite conspiracy theories\u201d and \u201cconspiracy theories in the COVID-19 context\u201d carry \u201cserious consequences\u201d including to \u201cincite people to violence \u2026. Governments should therefore not underestimate the threat posed by the so-called non-violent groups and their conspiratorial mindset.\u201d The report urges states and\u00a0their security agencies<\/a>\u00a0to take measures, including \u201cfinding a balance between freedom of speech and the necessity to protect society\u201d (Farinelli,\u00a02021<\/a>, pp. 4, 6, 13, 14, 21). Aiding and abetting authorities in stigmatizing, censoring, marginalizing, and potentially criminalizing speech in this way is dangerous, not only to those who would speak out against obvious atrocity, but to the victims whose lives depend upon dissenting voices.<\/p>\n

Desmet\u2019s chapter on \u201cconspiracy and ideology\u201d is profoundly confused. On the one hand, Desmet claims that the Holocaust involved \u201can intentional plan \u2026 There were approximately five people who neatly and systematically prepared the entire Holocaust destruction apparatus, and they managed to make all the rest of the system cooperate with it in total blindness for a long time\u201d (p. 136). To be clear, it was possible, in Desmet\u2019s view, for just five people to mastermind the Holocaust and to get everyone else to go along with the Final Solution (a term used, incidentally, by\u00a0Bill Gates<\/a>\u00a0to describe Covid-19 \u201cvaccines\u201d). Yet, when it comes to Covid-19, \u201cThe \u2018plans\u2019 do not precede the developments, as a conspiracy logic likes to suggest. They rather\u00a0follow<\/em>\u00a0them\u201d (p. 134). In other words, nothing was planned, and any alleged plans have been read backwards into events which occurred spontaneously. This is despite reference to the \u201ctransition from a democracy to a totalitarian technocracy, in which the coronavirus crisis was a Great Leap forward\u201d (2022, p. 132) \u2014 the \u201cGreat Leap\u201d metaphor indicating both political intention and disastrous large-scale social engineering. How, then, can an academic of such rank not see the patterns of planned events?<\/p>\n

The Rockefeller \u201cLock Step\u201d scenario of\u00a02010<\/a>, the October 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic simulation\u00a0Event 201<\/a>, and Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret\u2019s World Economic Forum publication\u00a0COVID-19: The Great Reset<\/em>\u00a0(from June 2020) are all cited, but regarded as non-conspiratorial because they are publicly available (i.e. not secret) and contain contradictions (Desmet 2022, pp. 132-33). Apparently, Desmet is unfamiliar with the concepts of\u00a0open conspiracy<\/a>\u00a0and scenario planning (despite the four separate and mutually contradictory scenarios presented in the\u00a0Rockefeller document<\/a>\u00a0he cites). Anyone who suspects centrally coordinated planning, according to Desmet, must be \u201cconfused\u201d and under Mass Formation, suffering from an \u201cintense need for a simple frame of reference, which allows him to mentally master the complexity, and in which to place and control the anxiety and other intense emotions that arise\u201d (p. 127). Why is it, then, that just five people could \u201cneatly and systematically\u201d mastermind the Holocaust, yet any suggestion that the Covid-19 crisis was centrally planned by a relatively small number of perpetrators must be a sign of intellectual imbalance?<\/p>\n

By the final chapter of the book, Desmet\u2019s apparent blindness to the criminal intentions of the ruling class reaches near farcical levels. Having earlier claimed that \u201cThe only consistency within the experts\u2019 discourse is that the decisions always move toward a more technologically and biomedically controlled society\u201d (p. 133), he goes on to write:<\/p>\n

With every \u2018object of anxiety\u2019 that has emerged in our society in recent decades \u2014 terrorism, the climate problem, the coronavirus \u2014 [technocratic thinking] has leapt forward. The threat of terrorism induces the necessity of a surveillance apparatus, and our privacy is now seen as an irresponsible luxury; to control climate problems, we need to move to lab-printed meat, electric cars, and an online society; to protect against COVID-19, we have to replace our natural immunity with mRNA vaccine-induced artificial immunity (p. 176).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why can Desmet not see that these escalating attacks on human freedom are\u00a0by design<\/em>, and that the threats he mentions have all been artificially manufactured for that very purpose? Were it not for the seriousness of the subject matter, there would be an almost touching political\u00a0na\u00efvet\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0about the views of this psychology professor, whose book on the psychology of totalitarianism only really deals with totalitarianism in its middle section (57 of 188 pages excluding bibliography \u2014 about 30 percent of the content).<\/p>\n

The anxiety to which Desmet (2022<\/a>, 176) alludes is necessary to manufacture consent for the \u201cinevitability\u201d of transhumanism and invasive bio-surveillance. Although Desmet seems rightly uneasy about the prospect of these dystopian agendas, he nevertheless appears to accept \u2014 inexplicably \u2014 their inevitability (and is, to that extent, thus, himself a victim of fear-based propaganda):<\/p>\n

The fourth industrial revolution, in which man is expected to physically merge with technology \u2014 the transhumanist ideal \u2014 is increasingly seen as an unavoidable necessity. The entire society has to change into an internet of bodies, in which the human body is digitally monitored, tracked, and traced by a technocratic government. This is the only way we will be able to master the problems of the future. There is no alternative. Anyone who refuses to go along with the technological solution is naive and \u2018unscientific\u2019 (p. 176).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is an entire standalone paragraph. There is no critical commentary on the remarks made. It would be nice to know from whose perspective transhumanism is both an \u201cideal\u201d to aspire to and precisely why it is an \u201cunavoidable necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hierarchical BANN architecture<\/em><\/a>. Image from Figure 1 of S. Canovas-Carrasco, A. J. Garcia-Sanchez, and J. Garcia-Haro (2018), A nanoscale communication network scheme and energy model for a human hand scenario. Nano Communication Networks, 15, 17-27. Reissued in compliance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License\u00a0<\/em>https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/<\/em><\/a>\u00a0pertaining to that work.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Getting Away With It: Mass Formation and Passive Bystanding<\/h2>\n

The chief danger in stretching the Mass Formation theory to cover the realities of Covid-19 is its potential to engender passive bystanding. The critical task of atrocity\u2019s instigators is not only to incite everyday citizens to perpetrate harm, but to neutralize and immobilize bystanders. As a document titled \u201cHuman Rights 101\u201d by the Science and Human Rights Coalition states: \u201cUnless citizens want their governments to support human rights, government leaders rarely will do so \u2026 [Human rights principles] carry no weight unless the people know them, unless the people understand them, unless the people demand that they be lived\u201d (McFarland, 2015, p.16). In other words, where citizens fail to hold their leaders accountable, atrocity thrives. Like patterns of serial murder, patterns of mass atrocity can be expected to repeat and intensify if left unchecked.<\/p>\n

It just so happens that human beings recognize forms and patterns and naturally categorize the phenomena they encounter to make sense of the world (Lakoff,\u00a01987<\/a>) \u2014 a deeply rooted human predisposition observed in developmental psychology and cognitive linguistics (Taniguchi et al. 2018, p. 8<\/a>). It also explains why collaborators in conspiracies to do harm are often found out and, sometimes, are brought to justice (when judicial systems aren\u2019t bought and paid for). Staub, for example, (1999<\/a>) observes how the fertile ground for genocide is cultivated:<\/p>\n

\u2026 leaders and a country\u2019s elite frequently intensify already existing hostility. They work to maintain differences between groups in power and status. They use propaganda to enhance devaluation of and fear of the other. They propagate a destructive ideology and thereby offer \u2018higher ideals\u2019 in behalf of action against the other. They create organizations that are potential instruments of violence (p. 308).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, the only patterns that Desmet recognizes when it comes to totalitarianism are mathematically pleasing ones, like the Sierpinski triangle (p. 122) or \u201cthe way complex, dynamic systems organize themselves in nature\u201d (p. 125). The trouble is, humans, endowed with reason and the capacity for critical self-reflection, are far more complex than non-conscious systems acting on pure instinct, like flocking starlings. The category mistake Desmet makes should be self-evident. His attempt to reduce socio-political phenomena to patterns found in nature is, ironically, a hallmark of the scientism of which he is otherwise rightly critical. Rhetorically, it simultaneously serves to imbue totalitarianism with associations of natural beauty.<\/p>\n

In contrast, we offer for reflection a partial list of patterns of purposeful contaminations and adulterations of products, people and the biosphere that preceded the biochemical onslaught of Covid-19. Haunting humanity are the effects of baby powder (Girion,\u00a02018<\/a>; Rabin,\u00a02020<\/a>), tainted baby foods (House, 2021), Agent Orange (Mitchell,\u00a02014<\/a>; VA,\u00a02018<\/a>), glyphosate (Samsel & Seneff,\u00a02015<\/a>; Giudice,\u00a02019<\/a>), dioxin, (Tomson,\u00a02012<\/a>), depleted uranium (Moszynski,\u00a02003<\/a>; Fairlie,\u00a02009<\/a>; Fathi et al.,\u00a02013<\/a>; Bruess et al.,\u00a02020<\/a>), weaponized syphilis (Chumley,\u00a02019<\/a>; Katz et al.\u00a02007<\/a>), weaponized insects (Swanson,\u00a02015<\/a>; Williams and Tucker,\u00a02019<\/a>; Datt,\u00a01999<\/a>; Immerwahr,\u00a02020<\/a>), weaponized mind-control (Project Artichoke,\u00a01965<\/a>) and, among many other threats, industrial pollutants (Manisalidis et al.,\u00a02020<\/a>; Markowitz,\u00a02018<\/a>). Contemporary nuclear medicine rests upon some of the most hideous military experiments on human beings ever conceived (Pilger,\u00a02016<\/a>; Naito,\u00a02020<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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USAF<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Public Domain<\/em><\/a>: Operation Ranch Hand and application of highly toxic Agent Orange during the Vietnam War<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The countless chemical, biological, and radiological attacks on the natural world \u2014 the environment, humans, and animals \u2014 have necessitated tight control and manipulation of information and open access to it.<\/p>\n

As regards the Covid-19 narrative, Damien Downing, President of the British Society of Environmental Medicine, observed that \u201cGovernments like epidemics just the same as they like war \u2026. It\u2019s a chance to impose their will on us and get us all scared so that we huddle together and do what we\u2019re told\u201d (Downing, 2009, cited in Kennedy Jr., 2021). Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav observes that, \u201cFor autocrats and others, Coronavirus is a chance to grab even more power\u201d (2020<\/a>). This suggests that there is some understanding in centers of elite global power that accepts as natural a permanent state of antagonism or, as\u00a0Staub<\/a>\u00a0notes, \u201chostility\u201d, between rulers and the ruled when manipulation, coercion, and force are needed to enact controversial policies. As recipients of government grants, medical ethicists in academia today have even suggested that a \u201cmorality pill\u201d could be made compulsory or be administered secretly, perhaps in the water supply as a \u201cmoral enhancement\u201d for those who resist \u201cfollowing public guidelines\u201d (Crutchfield,\u00a02020<\/a>). Professor Crutchfield\u2019s suggestion has not escaped the notice of critics who see his inspiration borrowed from the IG Farben experiments conducted during WWII on \u201chuman guinea pigs\u201d (Bernstein\u00a01945<\/a>, p. 7).<\/p>\n

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Doctor drawing blood from a patient as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Tuskegee Syphilis Study<\/em><\/a>, Public Doman<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

History testifies to the patterns of depravity in official programs of social and reproductive control, which have long been used to \u201cgradually reduce\u201d populations. Though it isn\u2019t necessary to reassess the well-known CDC germ warfare agenda enacted against American citizens during the decades-long Tuskegee Study (1932-72), the mass experiment is an important starting point from which to cite equally depraved but scarcely known clandestine programs conducted on unwitting citizens in the interest of curbing populations. During both world wars, funding for the United States\u2019 biological weapons program increased and continued into the Cold War and well beyond. News broke in the late 1970s that the Pentagon disclosed in declassified documents that from 1949 to 1969 it had conducted 239 secret open-air germ warfare experiments on an unsuspecting public (Wilson,\u00a01977<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In 1950, a secret exercise codenamed Operation Sea Spray commenced to test the vulnerability of domestic population centers to a possible foreign biological weapons attack (irony unintended). The U.S. Navy sprayed\u00a0Serratia marcescens<\/em>, bacterial microbes, along the coast in San Francisco sending some members of the population to the hospital and one to an early grave (Bentley,\u00a02019<\/a>). Not to be outdone by the Navy, the U.S. Army \u201ctested \u2018germ warfare\u2019 on the New York City subway by smashing lightbulbs full of bacteria\u201d (Loria,\u00a02015<\/a>). It had also \u201cconducted secret chemical testing in [an] impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War\u201d (CBS,\u00a02012<\/a>). Officials admitted that the tests \u201cwere part of a biological weapons program and St. Louis was chosen because it bore some resemblance to Russian cities that the U.S. might attack. The material being sprayed was zinc cadmium sulfide, a fine fluorescent powder\u201d (CBS,\u00a02012<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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NYC Subway 7th Avenue line, a site of germ warfare experimentation on citizens in the 1960s. B&W version of \u2018<\/em>7 Av station platform track view<\/em><\/a>\u2019 by John Seb Barber, licensed under\u00a0<\/em>CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

As Antony Barnett noted, testing is also an international phenomenon that, from 1940 to 1979, involved \u201creleasing potentially dangerous chemicals and micro-organisms over vast swaths of the [British] population without the public being told\u201d (2002<\/a>). Barnett refers to \u201cThe Sabotage Trials\u201d conducted between 1952 and 1964, to determine the vulnerability of large government buildings and public transport to attack. In 1956, bacteria were released on the London Underground at lunchtime along the Northern Line between Colliers Wood and Tooting Broadway. It is no wonder people connect these past experiments with the present EUA experiment enacted globally on largely unwitting populations.<\/p>\n

Totalitarianism, Criminality, and Undermining the Rule of Law<\/h2>\n

In his book about the psychology of totalitarianism, Desmet has remarkably little to say about the criminal mindset of totalitarian regimes. \u201cWhen totalitarians seize power,\u201d explains Meerloo (1956, p. 148), \u201cthey commit crimes on far greater scales than any petty criminal, and they no doubt also feel the rush of illicit power as they commit, not just crimes, but crimes against humanity itself.\u201d The injection of over\u00a05.45 billion people<\/a>\u00a0(as of 21 November 2022) with substances now known to contain a devil\u2019s brew of undisclosed ingredients constitutes a clear violation of the Nuremberg Code and a global crime against humanity (Hughes\u00a02022c<\/a>). What kind of psychology is needed to commit such a crime? There is an urgent need here to address issues of sociopathy and psychopathy, yet Desmet deems the idea that totalitarian leaders have a \u201cpsychopathic or perverted personality\u201d to be a \u201cmisconception\u201d and claims that in the Nazi regime such personality types were \u201csystematically excluded from recruitment\u201d (2022<\/a>, p. 106).<\/p>\n

Equally, what does it take for a heavily propagandized population to allow its leadership to commit crimes against humanity? According to Steven Bartlett, \u201cNothing needs to happen\u00a0in order for psychologically normal, average, everyday people to accept and comply with a callous and cruel government intent upon a program of systematic dehumanization and murder [\u2026]\u201d (2005<\/a>, p. 185).. If true, totalitarian societies, run by psychopaths, criminals, and mass murderers, with the passive acquiescence of the indoctrinated masses, are inherently pathological. Finding a cure for that pathology should be the primary aim of any book about the psychology of totalitarianism, yet in Desmet\u2019s book such problems simply do not arise.<\/p>\n

At the heart of civilization is the rule of law \u2014 under which we are all equally accountable for our actions. If those who govern us are free to break the law and commit atrocities with impunity, there is no rule of law: we are looking at a society that can only be ruled by force. By using his theory of Mass Formation to exonerate the ruling class of its responsibility for committing crimes against humanity, Desmet is effectively condoning lawlessness and the controlled demolition of civilized society.<\/p>\n

Lawlessness has been germinating in the United States ever since the birth of the national security state in 1947, with its founding myth of \u201cnational security\u201d enabling the intelligence agencies to operate outside of any meaningful democratic oversight. The CIA, in Doug Valentine\u2019s (2017<\/a>) assessment, represents \u201ca criminal conspiracy on behalf of wealthy capitalists,\u201d \u201cthe organized crime branch of the US government,\u201d and \u201ca criminal organization that is corrupting governments and societies around the world. It\u2019s murdering civilians who haven\u2019t done anything wrong\u201d (2017<\/a>, pp. 31, 35, 39). The ties between the CIA, the mafia, and transnational drug trafficking are well known (Scott\u00a02004<\/a>; Marshall\u00a02018<\/a>). The \u201ccriminal political violence necessary to sustain and expand [capitalist] accumulation,\u201d notes Ahmed, requires that capitalists:<\/p>\n

\u2026 continuously conceal that violence from public awareness or rehabilitate its legitimacy by the construction of new narratives of crisis\/threat which can justify the use of exceptional violence as a matter of survival \u2013 or even normalize the repeated use of exceptional violence until its institutionalization permits it to become part of the everyday practice of politics. (2012<\/a>, 63)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The history of US foreign policy since the birth of the CIA has been a tale of near continuous violations of international law and war crimes (Hughes\u00a02022a<\/a>), operating under cover of propaganda and psychological warfare in the name of \u201cnational security\u201d and a range of exceptionalist myths (Blum\u00a02006<\/a>; Chomsky\u00a02007<\/a>; Hughes\u00a02015<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Eye watering amounts of money have been funneled from US federal budgets into black budgets that the public is not allowed to know about. For example, an estimated US$21 trillion cannot be accounted for in the financial records of the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development between 1998 and 2016 (Skidmore & Fitts,\u00a02019<\/a>). The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), which sets the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the US federal government, introduced\u00a0Standard 56<\/a>\u00a0on 4 October 2018, allowing national security concerns to override the need for public financial transparency. FASAB-56, according to Fitts and Betts (2021<\/a>), \u201cpermits the federal government by administrative action\u2014without formal legislative, regulatory, judicial, or executive approval\u2014to keep secret books as determined by a secret group of people pursuant to a secret process.\u201d In other words, it provides for the clandestine pillaging of public wealth. The US government, in Fitts and Betts\u2019 (2021<\/a>) opinion, is \u201coperating sufficiently outside the Constitution and financial management and other laws to be called a \u2018criminal enterprise.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Wall Street remains above the law. As John Titus (2021<\/a>) notes, five years after the 2007\/8 financial crisis, \u201cit was a\u00a0matter of record<\/a>\u00a0that crimes on Wall Street weren\u2019t even being investigated, much less prosecuted.\u201d In 2012, HSBC Bank was fined $1.92 billion by the Department of Justice for laundering drug money, yet was allowed to enter into a \u201cdeferred prosecution agreement\u201d under which its officers were relieved of criminal liability for their crimes. This is just one illustration of how the<\/p>\n

\u2026 large banks are above the law. They are free to engage in criminality using their privileged status as owners of central banks in control of monetary policy and as the federal government\u2019s bankers (and bankrupters), so long as they kick back a portion of the profits to the DOJ and U.S. enforcement agencies\u2014and, no doubt, to legislators and politicians in the form of campaign contributions. (Fitts and Betts\u00a02021<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The \u201ccriminal immunity enjoyed by banks,\u201d for Titus (2021<\/a>), proves that the United States is no longer a constitutional republic under the rule of law.<\/p>\n

The slide towards lawlessness has also been evident in Britain. In September 2019, the UK Supreme Court\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0that the Government\u2019s decision to prorogue Parliament for five weeks in order to avoid parliamentary scrutiny of its negotiations with the EU was unlawful. Lord Sumption (2020<\/a>), who sat on the Supreme Court until 2018, interprets the UK Coronavirus Act (March 2020) as enabling \u201cgovernment by decree,\u201d contradicting centuries of British constitutional tradition (2020<\/a>, 9). In 2021, the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act was passed, which\u00a0provides for<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe authorisation of criminal conduct in the course of, or otherwise in connection with, the conduct of covert human intelligence sources.\u201d<\/p>\n

It permits criminal acts by the\u00a0following agencies<\/a>\u00a0of the state: any police force, the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office, any of the intelligence services, any of Her Majesty\u2019s forces, Her Majesty\u2019s Revenue and Customs, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Environment Agency, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Food Standards Agency, and the Gambling Commission. In other words, the British state can now commit criminal acts with impunity, provided it does so in the name of covert human intelligence gathering, which by definition is beyond public scrutiny. Meanwhile, the population at large is expected to obey the law and pay its taxes. In April 2022, Boris Johnson, a\u00a0compulsive rule breaker<\/a>, became the first sitting British Prime Minister in history to be\u00a0found guilty of breaking the law<\/a>\u00a0(holding parties during the first \u201clockdown\u201d), a clear signal of the ruling class\u2019 disregard for the rule of law which it has long claimed to uphold.<\/p>\n

Criminality also courses through everything Covid-related. From a medical perspective, this should come as no surprise, given G\u00f8tzsche\u2019s warning in\u00a0Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare<\/em>\u00a0(2013<\/a>) that Big Pharma is a worldwide criminal enterprise that is willing to kill and keep people sick for profit. The undisclosed ingredients in the Covid-19 injections (Hughes\u00a02022c<\/a>) imply universal lack of informed consent and thus, where injury or death has resulted, the legal implications are battery\/assault, grievous bodily harm, and murder. Attempts to coerce populations to take those injections\u00a0for the \u201csafety\u201d of everyone<\/a>\u00a0resemble a mafia protection racket: let us \u201cprotect\u201d you and we will leave you alone. Criminal acts \u201cdangerous to human life\u201d that appear intended to: \u201c(i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population [and\/or] (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion\u201d meet the definition of domestic terrorism under\u00a0Section 802(5)(B) of the USA PATRIOT Act<\/a>. On this basis, Martin (2021<\/a>, 10) accuses Anthony Fauci of domestic terrorism, and he also accuses Fauci, Ralph Baric, Peter Daszak, Moderna, the CDC, NIAID, and other actors of \u201clying to Congress,\u201d \u201cfunding and conspiring to commit acts of terror,\u201d \u201cconspiring to criminal commercial activity,\u201d \u201cmarket manipulation and allocation,\u201d \u201cinterlocking directorates,\u201d and \u201cillegal clinical trials.\u201d The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stands accused of terrorism, political violence and genocide (Depuydt,\u00a02020<\/a>). The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention prohibits bioengineering pathogens to create biological weapons, yet still the practice continues (Samore,\u00a02021<\/a>), and there is\u00a0speculation<\/a>\u00a0that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n

In sum, the rule of law is being deliberately undermined, and with it civilized society. This is the path to totalitarianism, yet Desmet seems oblivious to it.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>\u00a0works to normalize key aspects of totalitarianism. Desmet announces early on that totalitarianism represents \u201cthe defining feature of the Enlightenment tradition\u201d (p. 7). Not liberation from the Divine Right of Kings. Not the birth of modern republicanism. Not the spirit of free and independent scientific inquiry. But totalitarianism, a politically and intellectually backwards phenomenon that did not emerge until the 1930s, as per Arendt (2004), upon whom Desmet (2022) draws.<\/p>\n

Significantly, Desmet reads history backwards to make the technocratic totalitarianism currently seeking to install itself seem inevitable. The latter is rooted in what Desmet calls \u201cthe mechanistic ideology,\u201d which he traces back to Enlightenment positivism and the glorification of Reason as the means to a utopian future (pp. 46, 175). All societies, he argues, are at risk of succumbing to that ideology, for \u201cThere is an ever-present, totalitarian undercurrent that consists of a fanatical attempt to steer and control life in far-reaching ways on the basis of technical, scientific knowledge\u201d (p. 176). The \u201cmechanistic ideology\u201d \u2014 and not a vampiric transnational ruling class apparently waging undeclared covert war against the people \u2014 is the enemy for Desmet. Blaming the ideology is the rhetorical move that divorces the responsibility of bad actors from their bad intent.<\/p>\n

Even though 76 percent of the world\u2019s wealth is controlled by only 10 percent of the global population, with the poorest half of humanity owning only two percent of the wealth (Chancel et al.\u00a02022<\/a>, 10), a worldwide revolution in which 90 percent of the human race asserts its claim to a just world against the other 10 percent is inconceivable to Desmet. Seeing an \u201cevil elite\u201d as \u201cthe one and only cause of the misery,\u201d he\u00a0claims<\/a>, leads to the \u201cinevitable conclusion\u201d that<\/p>\n

\u2026 this elite must be destroyed through a violent revolution. Such a revolution, however, would most probably lead to the radical destruction of the \u2018freedom movement\u2019 itself. It would, indeed, rather be a Godsent gift for the elite, as it justifies destruction of the opposition through harsh repression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is entirely unclear why violence is the \u201cinevitable\u201d outcome of a line of reasoning that pins blame for Covid mass atrocity, not on the victimized and abused masses, but rather on a proportionately tiny ruling class responsible for worldwide crimes against humanity. The numerical odds are overwhelmingly in favor of humanity. Violence is not a prerequisite for emancipation: it simply takes a critical mass to see what is happening and to refuse to comply with its own enslavement. Note Desmet\u2019s claim that \u201charsh repression\u201d and \u201cdestruction of the opposition\u201d by the \u201celite\u201d is \u201cjustifie[d]\u201d in case of insurrection. This sounds fascistic on its face. Extreme violence is permitted to the ruling class to defend itself, but Heaven forbid that the people, repeatedly subjected to the devices of mass atrocity, should entertain similar ideas about their own self-defense.<\/p>\n

The quasi-mystical solutions proposed in the final part of\u00a0The Psychology of Totalitarianism<\/em>, titled \u201cBeyond the Mechanistic Worldview,\u201d reflect the book\u2019s detachment from actually existing (i.e. empirical, as opposed to media-induced) sociopolitical realities. In three chapters titled \u201cThe Dead versus the Living Universe,\u201d \u201cMatter and Spirit,\u201d and \u201cScience and Truth,\u201d Desmet offers some philosophical reflections on how to overcome scientism. But, as Marx (1969<\/a>) famously writes, \u201cPhilosophers have hitherto only\u00a0interpreted<\/em>\u00a0the world in various ways; the point is to\u00a0change<\/em>\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Solutions to totalitarianism do not lie in the philosophy of science. They lie in the outcome of class conflict. Desmet himself recognizes that, should leaders not be able to sustain the levels of manufactured \u201canxiety and aggression\u201d necessary for Mass Formation, \u201cthe masses will wake up and become aware of the damage they have suffered, whereupon they will turn against the leaders in lethal fashion\u201d (p. 116). Predictably, however, he leaps to the defense of the system:<\/p>\n

The problem cannot be solved by the violent elimination of an evil elite. The essence of the problem of totalitarianism lies in enormous mass dynamics. This means the elimination of totalitarian leaders will be to no avail; they are utterly replaceable (p. 139).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is true if the predatory practices of the present capitalist system remain intact. But given the world-historical events that have unfolded since 2020, this is far from certain. The ruling class appears intent on replacing present forms of capitalism with technocracy \u2014 a system of direct bio-digital enslavement that does not rely on secondary forms of control such as debt slavery (Broudy & Arakaki,\u00a02020<\/a>; Fitts,\u00a02022<\/a>). In the opposite corner, a rapidly awakening global population will surely have other ideas.<\/p>\n

Authors<\/h3>\n

David A. Hughes
\n<\/strong>With doctorates in German Studies and International Relations, David A. Hughes lectures in areas including security studies, international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, globalization, and US exceptionalism. His research focuses on psychological warfare, 9\/11, COVID-19, the deep state, intelligence crime, technocracy, resurgent totalitarianism, and global class relations. Selections of his work can be found on\u00a0Academia.edu<\/a>. David is an Associate Researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9\/11 Global \u2018War on Terror\u2019.<\/p>\n

Valerie Kyrie
\n<\/strong>Working in the areas of political psychology, the psychology of atrocity, and psychological operations, Valerie Kyrie holds a doctorate in psychology on the topic of reality-perception and its manipulation. She has contributed to work in the areas of international human rights, media, advocacy and policy, focusing on the deceptions, tactics and machinations underpinning collective violence and atrocity. Valerie has written about Covid-19 for Propaganda in Focus and the International Journal of Vaccine Theory Practice and Research. She is an Associate Researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9\/11 Global \u2018War on Terror\u2019.<\/p>\n

Daniel Broudy
\n<\/strong>With a doctorate in applied psycholinguistics and experience as an\u00a0imagery analyst, Daniel Broudy lectures in areas ranging from communication theory to visual rhetoric.\u00a0He is a professor of applied linguistics with\u00a0research\u00a0interests in symbols, signs, sounds, images, and colors as\u00a0communication\u00a0tools deployed by power\u00a0centers\u00a0which aim to shape\u00a0knowledge and\u00a0influence\u00a0human perception and emotion. Selections of his work can be found at ResearchGate. Daniel is an associate researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9\/11 Global \u2018War on Terror\u2019.<\/p>\n

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