Category: mass formation

[SUNDAY WATCH PARTY] Mattias Desmet: How Mass Media Propaganda Fuels and Intensifies Mass Formation Psychosis

Join us for our ATL Sunday Watch Party! During the Watch Party this Sunday at 7:30pm ET, everyone can watch part one of our episode with Mattias Desmet for FREE—even without a subscription. Feel free to share this link with your friends and family! This episode was originally published in Sep 13, 2022. From Our…


My Book Is Being Burned

Commentary On Jan. 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” in the course “Critique of Society and Culture.” That happened in the aftermath of a media storm that erupted in September 2022 following my interviews with Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones. I already wrote about that in a previous essay. Following these media appearances, Ghent…


Mass Formation and the Danger of Technocracy

“People in the grip of this corona narrative couldn’t see that these measures would ruin their lives, the health of their children, the wealth of their children, and the future of their children,” Mattias Desmet says. In a recent episode of EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses the new technocratic totalitarianism and a…


New Totalitarianism Led by ‘Dull Bureaucrats and Technocrats’: Psychologist Mattias Desmet

Professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University Mattias Desmet is the world’s leading expert in the phenomenon known as “mass formation,” which is a type of hypnotic state that occurs when people are isolated from one another and free-floating anxiety is prevalent, as in during the COVID-19 pandemic. Desmet believes the world is now seeing…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Mattias Desmet: How Mass Media Propaganda Fuels and Intensifies Mass Formation Psychosis

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Dissenting Voices Must Speak Out to Extricate Society From the Grip of Mass Formation: Clinical Psychologist

Speaking out to articulate sincere and honest belief is the best way to break the social phenomenon known as mass formation, whereby many individuals believe in an unreasonable narrative but are unable to think critically of it, said Mattias Desmet, a professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. A very important characteristic of…


The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Commentary At the end of February 2020, the global village began to shake on its foundations. The world was presented with a foreboding crisis, the consequences of which were incalculable. In a matter of weeks, everyone was gripped by the story of a virus—a story that was undoubtedly based on facts. But on which ones? We caught a…


PREMIERING at 10:30AM ET: How to Save Society From Mass Formation: Mattias Desmet

The world is teetering on the edge of disaster, as mass formation and the rise of totalitarianism have gone global. Yet this crisis may be avoidable, according to Mattias Desmet, a leading expert on mass formation and the author of “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” He is a professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in…


Was the COVID Pandemic a ‘Needed Crisis’? (VIDEO)

In an Epoch Health podcast, Dr. Ann Corson spoke with Prof. Dr. Mattias Desmet, the world’s leading expert on the theory of mass formation and its application on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Desmet discussed the degeneration of modern science and explained the effects this has had on society, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and how…


The Costs of COVID Overreach

“How many people would you be willing to kill in order to save one from COVID?” asks Gigi Foster. “That is essentially the trade-off. That’s the kind of question we should have been asking.” In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek and Gigi Foster discuss pandemic policies that now appear to…