Can We Transcend COVID? Some Perspectives On Mass Psychology OpEd – Eurasia Review

Mass psychology theories that shed new light are becoming popular. I will make an imperfect attempt to apply the TRANSCEND Method ofAnalysis, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy.

The ultimate analysis must integrate dimensions beyond this article including political, economic, hidden agendas of Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Media, the Great Reset, transhumanism, surveillance, and control by global forces, known and unknown (Mr. Global).

For deep context, consider that theAmishin Pennsylvania, insulated from media and government, achieved herd immunity to Covid by May, 2020 without social distancing, lockdowns, masks or vaccines, and had the most profitable year ever.

Otherwise, the US propaganda campaign framed Covid as a pandemic of the unvaccinated, inciting hysteria, blame, coercion, and ostracism.

Numerous tricks include defining vaccinated as beginning 14 days after the final Covid shot. Breakthrough infections, hospitalizations, injuries and deaths before day 14 are counted as unvaccinated.

Furthermore,hospitals get paid$13,000 to diagnose Covid, $39,000 to use ventilators, and staff are pressured torecord Covid as the cause of death,including deaths from other causes.

Massive censorship andsuppression of life-saving early treatments, estimated to prevent 85% of deaths led to wildly inflated death rates, triggering false beliefs, fear, and submission to lockdowns, passports, mandates and endless boosters.

Captured agencies (CDC, FDA, NIH, NIAD, WHO) and media in global lockstep proclaim vaccine safety and efficacy, suppressingunderreporteddata on injuries and deaths.

Statistics from Israel, Gibraltar, Iceland, and everywhere reveal breakthrough cases (vaccine failures), injuries, hospitalizations and deaths, indicating apandemic of the vaccinated.

We have a pandemic of fear, hysteria, dehumanization, poor health, racism, and domination by known and unknown powers.

Promoting aCultural HegemonicBelief System

The dominant narrative seems irrefutably true. Leaving out entire bodies of knowledge, it promotes a superficial belief that masking, distancing, lockdowns and vaccines are theonlyresponses.

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Italian philosopher,Antonio Gramscidescribed how the ruling class wields invisible power by manipulating ideology, beliefs, values and social norms. Incurious people, ignorant of facts, uncritically accept their worldview as a natural, inevitable, beneficial cultural norm.

Mystification

This resonates with R.D. Laingmystification,aplausible misrepresentationof reality.By representing forms of exploitation as forms of benevolence, the exploiters bemuse the exploited into feeling at one with their exploiters, or into feeling gratitude for what (unrealized by them) is their exploitation, and, not least, into feeling bad or mad even to think of rebellion.

Mystification maintains stereotyped roles by masking truth with false constructions of what is actually happening and what a conflictis actually about, though people may not feel confused.In fact, they may feel quite assured of their position. Laing concluded thatbefore enlightened action can be taken, the issues have to be demystified.

The dominant narrative is portrayed as an absolute, undeniable truth accepted by all sane people. Those who challenge it are stupid, crazy and dangerous and must be convinced or punished.

The US spent $10 billion on messaging, hiring behavioral scientists to convince the vaccine hesitant, with rewards and punishments.

Mattias Desmets Elegant Model of Mass Formationand Mass Hypnosis

Mattias Desmet, psychology professor at Belgiums Ghent University, with a masters in statistics, is on a meteoric rise to superstardom. He is deservedly the darling of many questioning the narrativeincluding world renowned doctors Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA technology and Dr. Peter McCullough, the most published doctor in his field, cardiorenal medicine, in the world, in history.

Desmet was puzzled by failed predictions used to justify draconian policies. British scientist,Neil Fergusonoverpredicted 2.2 million US and over 500,000 UK deaths. In Sweden, 80,000 deaths were predicted. Only 6000 died with no lockdowns.Policies were not revised with new data.

He was troubled by the singular obsession with Covid victims, ignoring lockdown victims, and UN risk assessments that the lockdown would cause more deaths than Covid.After 6 months observing irrational policies, Desmet shifted to his work on totalitarianism which emerges when social conditions conducive to exploitation are met, including:

I add unrelenting stress, fear, humiliation, envy, grief, betrayal, unpredictability, dread, insecurity, financial devastation, educational setbacks, inferiority, domestic abuse, trauma, helplessness, vulnerability, dashed hopes, and having ones entire social fabric ripped away.

Intolerable psychic pain threatens to turn into panic, generating an overwhelming urge for relief. Atransformationoccurs whenunder these conditions, a narrative, a story is distributed through the mass media indicating an object of anxiety, and at the same time, providing a strategy to deal with this object of anxiety.

This intoxicating narrative enables peopleto feel connected in a heroic struggle with the object of anxiety,simultaneously providing meaning, a new kind of solidarity, a channel for pent-up aggression and a huge willingness to participate in this strategy to deal with this object of anxiety because in this way, people feel they can control their anxiety and social discontent.

People desire a strong leader to rescue them and tell them what to do. After 9/11, Bushs popularity skyrocketed.

Mass formation overtakes individuality. 3 groups emerge, approximately

When safe, the 40% will shift towards the truth-tellers. The immune group is extremely heterogenous.

I add to mass formation a diagnosis ofmass hysteria.

Fear and Regression

Fear of the virus is more dangerous than the virus itself?Mattias Desmet

The narrative manipulates fear of everyone all the time. Death is a random crapshoot. Young, healthy people feel terrified of dying, infecting and killing others. People are more dangerous when afraid, regressing to primitive levels of functioning.

Fear-reducing information is suppressed regardingearly treatments, prophylaxis, immune boosting,natural immunity, and thathealthy childrendont die or transmit to adults.

Terror Management Theory

Social psychology research shows howawareness of ones deathprovokes existential anxiety. People mobilize anxiety buffering systems, providing illusions of transcending death. Mortality salience disrupts this buffer, increasing fear, hostility to outgroups, attachment to ones ingroup, nationalism, prejudice, support for violence and attraction to charismatic leaders.

Induced Helplessness

In Seligmans theory oflearned helplessness, when repeated actions have no effect people learn that they cant make a difference. They give up, even in situations where they can make a difference. Helplessness elevates immune-suppressing cortisol levels.

Media undermines personal agency over ones health and early treatments inducing passive hope in vaccines.

The dominant narrative offers no endgame.

Transcending Covid requires awakening from mass hypnosis and withdrawing participation in predatory institutions. Much work is required to overcome dark forces.

Favorable Indicators include:

Johan Galtungs eternal solution,creating a new realitythat bridges incompatible goals, has new meaning. Compatible goals include health, freedom, a new society and justice overcoming corrupt domination.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To changesomething, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller

I add:

Create a new story, a healthy, honest, ethical narrative that identifies the true source of anxiety (not the virus or each other) that connects us in a new heroic struggle that

*About the author: Diane Perlman, PhDis a clinical and political psychologist, devoted to applying knowledge from psychology, conflict studies and social sciences to designing strategies and policies to reverse nuclear proliferation, to drastically reduce terrorism, reduce enmity, and to raise consciousness about nonviolent strategies for tension reduction and conflict transformation. She is a visiting scholar at the School forConflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, is active inPsychologists for Social Responsibility,theTRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment,and on the Global Council of Abolition 2000. Some of her writings can be found on her websites,www.consciouspolitics.organd http://www.SanityandSurvival.com.Email:%5Bemailprotected%5D

Source: This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS)

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