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I started to study the statistics a little
bit, and I immediately had the impression

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the initial mathematical models and the
initial statistics all had indeed

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That was the moment when I started to think
how it was possible that an entire society

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After a few months it became clear to me that
the only mechanism that could explain what

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was what is usually referred to as mass
formation.

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And also because I want to make it be a
symbol for people to see that that's the k...

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The process of mass formation is identical to
hypnosis.

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An individual that is in the grip of a
process of mass formation typically become...

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for everything that goes against the
narratives where the masses or the group

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which make them radically willing to
self-sacrifice, to sacrifice themselves fo...

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Obviously you don't like to tell people what
to do but sometimes for the good of societ...

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They become radically intolerant for
dissonant voices and this goes typically g...

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who do not go along with them and they do so
as if it is a netical duty to do so.

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That's something that was observed in all
major examples of mass formation in history.

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Whether we are talking about the Crusades or
the witch hunts or the French Revolution o...

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Namely the tendency to commit cruelties
usually to destroy the people who do not g...

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and that it is exactly that what makes the
process so dangerous.

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This is becoming a pandemic of the
unvaccinated.

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The people who are not getting vaccines, it's
time to start shaming them.

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I want my freedom to live.

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No, screw your freedom. You're a shmuck for
not bearing a mask.

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We have to stop coddling the morons who will
not get the shot.

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Shame on you.

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No mask, get out!

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Don't wear a mask or get along.

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Put your mask on! Put your f*cking mask on!
Put your mask on!

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What gives meaning to the masses and to the
individuals that are in the mass formation

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is just the collective heroic battle with the
object of anxiety.

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A mass formation typically emerges in a
society when very specific conditions are

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First and for all, the most central condition
is a major part of the population needs to

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Breaking news. Stay at home. That is the
order tonight.

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We must enact an immediate stay at home
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We're going to go visit mom. I'm going to
bring the home family to see mom.

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No, we all need to stay at home.

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Stay at home. Stay at home. Stay inside.

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But stop socializing.

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If that's starting to take a toll, it's
understandable.

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But we can't afford to stop now.

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Go home and stay home.

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they will typically start to experience a
lack of meaning making in life.

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And then, in a third step, once people feel
socially isolated, confronted with lack of

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they will be confronted with anxiety,
frustration and aggression.

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And under these conditions, if a narrative is
distributed through the mass media,

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indicating an object of anxiety and a
strategy to deal with this object of anxiety,

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And then, people don't feel lonely anymore,
they feel connected again.

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But the new kind of social bond is highly
problematic,

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just because the bond is never between
individuals.

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It's always a social bond between individuals
and the collective,

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You are not doing this for yourself. It's so
you don't kill other people.

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You don't take it for yourself. You take it
for your family.

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Sounds trite to say, but we're all in this
together.

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Would it be accurate to say that at the root
of all of this madness is our intrinsic

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And if they feel lonely, they will suddenly
do everything to feel connected again,

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even sacrificing themselves.

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In the confrontation with emerging
totalitarianism,

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the most important thing is always that the
dissonant voices continue to speak out

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Non-violent resistance is what always works
best.

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It's a bit cynical, but it is in the end good
news,

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that mass formation and totalitarianism
always destroys itself in a relatively sho...

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If the people who do not go along with the
system continue to speak out, they will

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