Mass Formation and more cryptic crypto happenings
Nation First looks once again at Prof. Mattias Desmet's work plus at another strange recent happening in the world of cryptocurrency.
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Dear friend,
The rise of the totalitarian state doesn’t occur in a vacuum.
Rather, they are a product of problems already endemic in society.
In his seminal work ‘The Psychology of Totalitarianism’, Professor Mattias Desmet — lecturer in clinical psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium — details the factors that give rise and support to totalitarianism.
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Central to the book is the premise of mass formation theory — a kind of “destructive collective psychosis” that engulfs a society which then willingly gives away its freedom in return for perceived security.
Prof. Desmet rightfully criticises the groupthink that has come to pervade our modern society, which was amplified all the more during the COVID-19 crisis.
The Belgian professor also points to the history of science and its distortion into a dogmatic ideology (which is evidence by the oft-repeated ‘trust the science’ mantra).
From this, he describes the rise of mechanistic thinking, one that is purely rational, lacking in empathy, and one which reduces man to purely a biological organism or commodity.
It is from here that one can easily interpret how the ideology of science can give way to totalitarian tendencies.
Prof. Desmet outlines six social conditions as a prerequisite for the rise of totalitarianism.
Loneliness and a loss of social bonds
A lack of meaning in life/ nihilism
Anxiety and unease that arises from the first two
The manifestation of frustration and anger
The exploitation of these feelings by the power to be through a manufactured narrative.
But it is not all doom and gloom.
Professor Desmet also offers an alternative to the mechanistic worldview which centres around the limits of human rationality and that which lies beyond the material.
If we were to reach this alternative paradigm, Professor Desmet says we would be a “the point at which we no longer need to lose ourselves in the crowd to experience meaning and connectedness, this is the point where the winter of totalitarianism gives way to a new spring of life.”
But this “new spring of life” must begin with resistance.
Professor Desmet states that totalitarian systems, by their very nature, are self-imploding and even simple acts of resistance can go a long way in helping stem the tide of their excesses.
The Psychology of Totalitarianism thus stands out from other books on this topic for the fact it aims to inspire hope in the reader.
Professor Desmet’s book is a riveting and monumental work that later historians will use as a source to gain a better understanding of our present time.
And it is available via the Freedom Bookshop.
Last month a story that was (curiously) largely unreported by most mainstream media was mentioned in Nation First: a young cryptocurrency pioneer Nikolai Mushegian was found dead in the beach waters close to his house. Hours prior, he had this tweeted:
CIA and Mossad and pedo elite are running some kind of sex trafficking entrapment blackmail ring out of Puerto Rico and Caribbean islands. They are going to frame me with a laptop planted by my ex (girlfriend) who was a spy. They will torture me to death.
Why did Mushegian die? Was he killed? And what does it have to do with the CIA and Central Banking Digital Currencies? Read on to find out!
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