WHY DO PEOPLE BUY INTO THE NARRATIVE? DR. MATTIAS DESMET ON MASS HYPNOSIS
Four conditions need to be present to create mass formation (similiar to mass hypnosis);
There needs to be a lot of:
1) Socially isolated people or people who experience a lack of social bond.
2) People who experience a lack of ‘sense making’.
3) Free-floating anxiety (FFA) where people are unable to identify what’s causing the anxiety and so has no way to deal with it.
4) Free-floating psychological discontent where people may experience their daily lives as lacking any purpose or meaning.
Does it sometimes feel like you’re surrounded by people who’ve been hypnotised in some way? Well, maybe you are. My guest tonight is Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, and his observations over the past 18 months have led him to conclude that the overwhelming majority have indeed fallen under a kind of spell. Except it’s not actually a spell, of course: the term for it is ‘mass formation’ and right now it’s manifesting as a psychological response — not unlike hypnosis — to the unrelenting, single-focus campaign of fear to which we have all been subjected. Join me at 5pm when I will explore with Mattias what triggers and sustains this mass response, where it could ultimately lead us, why a minority somehow manages to remain unaffected, and whether there’s anything we can collectively do to break the spell before it’s too late.
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