Matthias Desmet is the Dutch psychologist that got into trouble pushing against the Narrative on COVID. La Wik:

Desmet became known for his negative assessment of the corona measures… He also made a number of statements that were considered untrue and/or misleading by fact checkers[.]

I picked up his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism last week, in which he argues that the kind of “mass formation” we saw during COVID where everyone rushed to get with the latest ukase from on high, is characteristic of modern totalitarianism and its “mechanistic” worldview.

At the end of the book he cites modern physics, including quantum mechanics and chaos theory, to argue that the mechanistic worldview -- of the Enlightenment, Newton, and the Industrial Revolution -- has been superseded and needs to be tossed onto the trash heap of history.

Of course, there is only one problem with the new worldview. Sure we all live in a world that uses the new science: H–bombs and Shannon’s Law that information is surprise. But only about three people in the whole world understand it all.

I have only one problem with Desmet’s ideas. I don’t think that “mass formation” applies just to our modern mechanistic age. I think that all rulers rely on getting the people riled up to get their way, whether it’s to go to war or put on masks........

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