Is Mattias Desmet an expert in Mass Formation or a Trojan Horse?

Three weeks ago, American psychiatrist Peter Breggin and his wife Ginger Ross Breggins formulated some harsh criticism of my new book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism. They asserted that in describing the mass formation that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, I was blaming the victims and absolving the perpetrators.

The Coronacrisis was an emergent phenomenon driven by a certain narrative of man and the world-the mechanistic-rationalist-materialist ideology-which created a certain elite and put the population in a certain state that made it vulnerable to mass formation.

• In The Psychology of Totalitarianism and numerous podcasts, I describe that mass-formation can emerge in a more or less spontaneous way or it can be artificially provoked through indoctrination and propaganda (as in the former Soviet Union).
• Both the elite and the population shoulder responsibility-the first because they actively manipulate the population and the second because they prefer to stay blind and, ultimately, commit atrocities towards those who don't join them.

Avoid conspiracy theories

• Before we accuse people of conspiring and evil intent, we must eliminate the other possibilities. Otherwise, we make a grave ethical mistake.
• Furthermore, I think it is a mistake to believe that evil is the province of only the elite. The rich and the poor, and everyone in between struggle with evil.

We all have a certain responsibility

• Systems theory teaches that the flapping of butterfly wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas
• Some causal explanations make sense, and others don't
• But there is never a compelling argument to situate causality at one and only one level

Mass formation

• The enemy is not another human being, the enemy is primarily a certain view of man and the world, a mechanist-rationalist-materialist way of thinking
• We need a new consciousness
• A new awareness of what the essence of life is
• An awareness of the central importance of ethical principles
• Awareness of the irreplaceable function of truth speech

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