Here’s the interview itself, posted temporarily.
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Mass Delusion Psychosis
by Chas Holloway
In 1841 Charls Mackay wrote a book called Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. In it, he documented the many of the times in history when masses of people became delusional about the significance some odd event or weird phenomenon or crazy belief. He wrote about the mania of the Crusades during the middle ages, the witch hunting during the1500s, the fortune telling and magnetizers fsd during the 1800s, and more.
Mackay was writing in the first half of the 19th century, so he wasn’t around to witness the dulusion of communism that swept Russia, or the millions of people buying “comet pills” to protect themselves from Halley’s Comet in 1910, or the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany, or the communist witch hunts in America during the 1950s.
Today, we are in the grips of yet another mass psychosis — millions of people now suddenly believe there are fourty-six genders, that men can become pregnant, that children must undergo surgeries to change their sex, that the very climate is changing.
In the preface to his book, Mackay writes: “We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit.; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is cought by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire for military glory, or a religious scruple, not recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood.”
This phenomenon has repeated throughout human history. Why do entire populations suddenly go mad?
On the Tucker Carlson Today Show (available on the Fox Nation app) Tucker recently interviewed a scientist from Belgium named Mattias Desmet. He has identified the mechanism behind these mass insanity movements, and calls his explanation, Mass Formation Theory. It is a simple Occham’s Razor explanation for the cause of these dangerous mass psychosis events — another one of which the western world is experienceing now.
I’m posting this 60-minute-long interview here. It is critically important to undertstand the cause of what’s happening all around us today. Desmet also explains in this interview how the psychosis can be stopped before it causes catastrophic destruction.
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The book : The psychology of totalitarianism is an excellent read on this topic too.
Hey Todd, thanks for the comment. My friend Bill Hergonson (who does voice over on the podcast for me) just finished reading that book. I'm going to read it next. BTW, haven't heard from Scott since we left CA. How's he doing?