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The Psychology of Totalitarianism

An examination of the book The Psychology of Totalitarianism By Mattias Desmet

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These audios are a review of an book entitled The Psychology of Totalitarianism.

This review will take the excellent work by Mattias Desmet to a deeper level revealing and clarifying the mechanism of Totalitarianism throughout the ages that degenerates and blinds the masses and destroys liberty.

We address a time tested effective solution that will facilitate an alternative which could revolutionize Jordan Peterson's upcoming Alliance for responsible citizenship for those who have ears to hear.

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Introduction

To Mattias it was clear in 2017 that the world, i.e. the government, the new woke culture, and the ideology of climate change were engaged in the long process moving swiftly toward totalitarianism.

Science was increasingly showing incompetence, sloppy work, and a radical disregard for facts.

The COvid began to take the masses "further" down the road toward that totalitarianism.

Mattias also saw other things changing in the world and not for the better.

He saw a "Radical contempt for facts".

An increase in sloth and avarice and a reduction in liberty.

"I paid off the mortgage on my house." He states.

"First and foremost, I wanted my sovereignty back. I did not want to be indebted to and compliant in a financial system in my view played a part in the social impasse that was about to occur."

He will equate the new medical experts with the pigs of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

The questions we will address in our review of his excellent book include:

Has "the industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world, production capacities, economic power (via a self-centralizing banking system), and psychological power (via mass media)..." caused this loss of liberty?

Is there a deeper more fundamental issue or element if mankind that has been forgotten which would have provided an immunity to the ill effects of this technological wonder we have constructed?

What is the solution, the way back?

Part 1 science and it's pscological effect.

1 Science and ideology

In Chapter 1 Mattias discusses how "Science tipped from open-mindedness to dogma and blind conviction."

At the beginning of the most recent "age of enlightenment" men like Galileo, Newton, and others began "to dare to think", investigate and study anything and everything that might reveal the truth.

✓Science is the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.

To those who embrace the lie and love the darkness the truth and the light become the enemy.

Observation altered the behavior of particles and the spirit of the individual alters the observer.

“Due to the industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world, production capacities, economic power (via a self-centralizing banking system), and psychological power (via mass media) fell into the hands of an ever-decreasing number of people. The Enlightenment tradition had promised people autonomy and freedom, but, in a way, it brought people greater (feelings of) dependence and powerlessness than ever before. This powerlessness caused people to increasingly mistrust those in power. Throughout the nineteenth century, fewer and fewer people felt that political leaders really represented their voice in public space or defended their interests. As a result, man also became disassociated from the social classes that were represented”

― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

2 Science and practical applications

In Chapter 2 Mattias discusses how science through "its practical application isolates people from one another and from nature ."

Mattias is correct that Industrialization, Mechanization, and technocracy gained power and influence over the soul of man who has steadily been weaned from the need for the milk of human kindness and severed many of the natural social bonds.

From the ticking of the pendulum coming from the authority of the clock to manipulations of the mass media seems to have isolated and defeated the individual and "conquered the living room" according to Mattias.

While the new scheduling of our life by a mechanical determination, like the clock, removes the individual from a more natural or even spiritual guidance to that of the demands of external dictation.

This distancing of individuals by modern technology and temporary gratification provided through a mechanical media does not nurture any natural social bonds which can only be generated between interaction of varying and vastly complex combinations of individuals in communities.

The nurturing of natural social bonds of society requires the regular practices of sacrifice and forgiveness within the environment of free speech and a social conversation under the perfect law of liberty.

From the clock and the ticking of its pendulum to the masses media has swept the mind of men in a deluge of fear, covetous practices, and lies.

Labor became less meaningful because the beneficiary of your labor has become isolated or even unknown.

Mattias talks about "Bullshit jobs" and the "Proliferation of meaningless work" which reduced the emotional feedback is less rewarding. Meaningful work such as rancher and farmers are less financially rewarding vs administrators who are often overpaid be design.

Mattias talks about the amoral delay of stopping the prescription of poisons like Thylidimyde from 1958 (1961)and 1969. And DES which continued to be used after series side effects.

This isolations of the individual caused the making of "The Adomized subject" of Hannah Arendt.

3 artificial society

Chapter 3 discusses how "How it's utopian pursuit of an artificial and rationally controllable universe equates to the destruction of the essence of life."

In a natural society for thousands of years the nature of man as he was created has required the expenditure of one life for the benefit of the life of another, the other members of the society, or the next generation.

This element of man has not only past down from generation to generation but is the glue that binds a free society.

In a moral society this choice to sacrifice is accomplished by both an individual and voluntary choice.

Without this daily voluntary choice of sacrifice and the exercise of this choice the utility of love decreases and man degenerates.

Christian Huygens' Pendulum synchronization is the example of social synchronizing that must take place in a free society.

A man is composed of billion of cellular and biological clocks. Often our Online interaction often disrupt the mechanism of mutual interaction of life. The resonance of natural living entity needs to be guided by all the elements of the Kingdom of God which is the righteousness of God.

Mattias sees our daily digital conversation is "Constantly being in the presence of the other person's absence." This is an electronic imposed Capgras. But if we were practicing Pure Religion we would overcome the isolation of "industrialization, mechanization, and technologization".

In our attempt of removing discomfort without self examination ended the declaration of the ancient to "Know thyself" which includes "Know thy location in the universe". In society... On the wall of clocks and we become "The Adomized subject" of Hannah Arendt

4 The (im)measurable Universe

Chapter 4 Mattias days he was attempting to demonstrate how "it's belief in objectivity and measurability of the world leads to absurd arbitrariness and subjectivity."

The tyranny of numbers and the arbitrary interpretation of data is revealed by numerous examples and observations. All data is a mere reflection of a portion of reality and the soul who observed it.

Numbers may not lie but men do. First, to themselves and then to others until the lie is synchronized in the hearts and minds of the Masses.

"The Adomized subject" is a product of a neglect of the righteousness interaction of giving and forgiving required in a free society which is the purpose of the practice of Pure Religion and the antithesis of the covetous practices of legal charity which is the way of the world today.

5 The desire for a master

In Chapter 5 Mattias discusses "...the fate of another great ambition of science, to liberate man from his anxiety and his moral commandments and prohibitions."

Mattias correctly sees that none of these exploits of man through "the industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world, production capacities, economic power (via a self-centralizing banking system), and psychological power (via mass media)..." provided security or relief from anxiety. In fact, anxiety. depression, and discontent or confusion seemed to increase...

He reveals some serious insight when he writes, "Some time in the seventeenth century... The star of the human intellect appeared in the sky" so that "There was no longer any reason to accept the social contract imposed on society by the clergy."

Of course the Church which crowned kings instead of the people perverted the roll of the Church which Christ appointed. The clergy of the apostate Church become the comforter of the people instead of the Holy Spirit and the clergy of the state offering legal charity through the welfare state became the vast bureaucracy of locusts ready to eat out the substance of mankind while the isolated man is left to eat bugs.

"The star of the human intellect" was our own "tree of knowledge". But the "tree of life" has always been the Holy Spirit from which inspiration of the divine creator of life shines. Christ showed the way back to that tree of life and the "Clergy of Christ should be doing the same. They are not like the clergy of Constantine nor the clergy of Caesar who are the blind leading the blind.

"Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection."

The means and method of that protection synchronizes the soul of man with the gods of that system. If the people choose to covet what is their neighbors, to bite one another as a means they will be devoured.

Our individual spirit explores the spirit of those around us. Our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters and all others around us that also live and interact with us in one conversation or another. The division and isolation within the social structures of society are designed by men to animise a different spirit in man.

To understand the cure we must first identify the disease.

Legal charity is the table that is a snare which makes men merchandise and will curse children with debt. In the beginning Mattias Desmet saw the bondage of debt which takes away the life of the people.

There is a spirit that draws man to make rules and laws where the rule may remain long after it's purpose is forgotten. The law imposed replaces the life that only liberty may bring...

"The making of laws there is no end." But all the rules form a web that robs the individual not only of movement and moments but of choice.

"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish.

We must resist the temptation to exercise authority one over the other because if we choose to take choice from our neighbor we know, or should know, as we judge so shall we be judged.

Without choice and the consequences of choice the individual cannot know thyself nor thy place with others in a free society.

Part II: Mass Formation and Totalitarianism

6. The rise of the Masses

Mattias' words ring of more truth than he may let on. Maybe he is leaving some discovery to the reader. The rise of the Masses is the congealing of the masses into common collective, one purse. The masses are bound together by consentwhich the ancient sages of liberty warned us not to do.

The "industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world" is not the cause of the isolation, anxiety, and degeneration of society but they are the vehicle that may take us to Totalitarianism.

Mattias' observations are certainly tracking the problem in these unique institutions of this world. The truth is the problem began because of our prior abandonment of those things which had once been in our culture that had established social bonds of society that are essential for a free nation. Of we had kept the practices of more ancient institutions before confronting the challenge of industrialization we would have been better equipped to deal with and even counter their debilitating influence.

This "Lack of social bonds" is what creates the Loneliness and isolation. The "industrialization, mechanization, and technologization" are like an artificial substitute or even an opiate meant to sedate society so that we do not feel the loss as the blood of society which is steadily drained away.

Nullification

Christ condemned the Pharisees for their failure to attend to the weightier matters and what is called in most texts as Corban. On previous recordings we mentioned the cities of refuge. Our view of the ancient text and modern institutions is clouded in sophistry and the words of false prophets of both false religion and public religion.

The micro mass of a jury is often manipulated into waving its right to attend to the weightier matters. They are "cunningly coersed into waving their rights" to attend to "weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith" because they "lack knowledge" of what is called Jury nullification.

The modern jury is often subject and because he is ignorant, slothful and turned away from The Way of God, the tree of life will often waive their right to decide "fact an law". They have not attended to the weightier matters as Christ and Moses said to do because the turn from the light and embrace the darkness.

They do not know of the role of the Jury at the Common Law nor the dangers of equity becoming the sole administrative law in a legal system.

This is because the people do not know who they should be, nor who they have become because of a hundred years of choosing legal charity over the righteousness of fervent charity which has degenerated the social bonds of a free society.

Until they are willing see this truth they cannot know the truth, they cannot know thyself. If they choose to covetous practices over fervent charity, choose to take away their neighbors' right and liberty to choose their liberty will be taken from them. If they do not love their neighbor, their neighbor's rights, as much as themselves then the reject God and the commandments of God, the Will of God, and Right Reason. Therefore, they cannot "Know thyselves".

The other

Mattias talks about a "Lack of meaning" and the "removal" of the "other".

Who is the primal "other"?

The primary other in the great Domestic relation of Husband and Wife has always been the next generation.

The neighbors' offspring will be the partner to your sons and daughters so they are equally as important.

That concern for Family and the Family of your the neighbor preoccupies the mind with a focus that has no time to grasp nor be grasped by a "Free floating anxiety".

When the instituted governments of the people become the "father" of a civil family through legal marriage and the subsequent gifts, gratuities and benefits of the welfare state descend upon the people and something is lost as the social bonds of society are degenerated.

Without the meaningful purpose of "the other", from your neighbor to the next generations, there will not only be Frustration but aggression. With the suffocation and killing of care through the legal charity of the socialist welfare state the people are snared. In the manifestation of this return to bondage they are trapped in drowning desperation and become "perfect savages finding once more a monarch and a king".

The mass formation was not merely a perfect storm but the implementation of the ancient plan of Cain"s city-state, Nimrod's Babylon, Sumer's Turtledove, Pharaoh's Bondage of Egypt, Caesar's Imperial Cult of Rome and of coarse, we should not forget FDR's New Deal and LBJ's The Great Soceity.

When neighbor no longer loves neighbor as themselves the people will apply to benefactors who exercise authority one over the other. They will bedead to the truth. Like the walking dead they will bite their neighbor to satisfy their own appetite for flesh and blood. There will be no "argumentum ad populum" nor "argumentum ab auctoritate".

The only remedy is to repent and learn to love your neighbor as thy self. If you do not know thyself you cannot know nor love your neighbor.

Never join a democracy with zombies.

Beyond the dark

"Is there still a reality beyond the one created by the masses?"

Can there be kindness beyond cruelty?

Can we find virtues beyond vice?

Is there love beyond hate?

Is their light beyond the darkness?

Other characteristics of man as he was created to be have been neglected and forgotten or denied.

There will always be a "radicle intolerance" toward anyone who is not a zombie or who "dares to share" the light of true love.

1. Dissident voice

2. Critical argument

3. Any thing that might break the spell is subversive.

4. Extremely frustrating if it restrains the venting.

Mattias writes of a limit of the rational mind when "reason transcends itself".

Yet, he points out the statement, “Dare to think! Have the courage to use your own reason!’ is therefore the motto of the Enlightenment,” as stated in 1784 by the great German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant.”

But Kant also clearly stated, "Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands." Immanuel Kant

Mattias goes on to say, “The great minds who followed reason and facts most rigorously came to the conclusion that, ultimately, the essence of things is beyond logic and cannot be grasped.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

They are beyond the logic of man, his own personal tree of knowledge, but they are not beyond Right Reason which can only be accessed by man through what has been called the tree of life.

The truth is a clear vision of reality which cand be identified by the phrase Right Reason. It can only be perceived if we are willing to see the whole truth which includes the truth about ourselves.

Few people are willing to see the whole truth so they will construct imaginary realities that block their vision and cover their inadequacies. Like Adam with his fig leaf hiding from God and fleeing the light we do not want to see which keeps us in the dark of denial. It is pride and vanity that keeps us from true enlightenment. Yes, "Dare to think!" But never imagine you do not need the guidance of a higher source of truth than yourself.

So to see the whole truth we would have to be willing to see the whole truth about our own selves which is not always pretty and some times painful. This is why to "Know thy self" is so primary.

We must be willing to go back to the beginning to find where we went wrong. We must be willing to step away from our own preservation of personal pride and move into the humbling light if we are to eat of the tree of life and receive the "resonance" or revelation of the "Holy Spirit". This is why loving others and the care of others is so important. It is why forgiveness is critical.

The intensive formation of the masses came because we have fled the truth about our own Naked inability to dare to think. This is why we have been lost, even hiding from the spirit of truth, the creator.

7. The leaders of the Masses

Mattias sees that the hypnotizer may also be hypnotized.

He may be lost too or even cast out.

Yes, "Mass formation takes both victims and perpetrator in its grip."

Both the leader and the led are victims because they live in the dark and will "hypnotize each other" to obtain a since of something more than themselves alone. They cannot afford a relationship that is to honest. Boundaries become blurred.

Eventually Mattias sees that "All normal ethical boundary are violated."

And any arguments against that errant logic that is used to excuse that violation is band from the conversation.

...Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It can only do that when neighbor is willing to control neighbor.

The vicious circle in which Mass formation and Totalitarianism ...

"Mass formation and Totalitarianism inevetiably destroy themselves by way of logical necessity."

"Mass formation feed on anxiety and aggression." They need new fears, new rituals of death.

Eventually this obsession will lead to purges of one group or another. Isolating group and attacking them. This as already began with intersectionality.

Mattias points out that there were 17 people a year executed under the czars but under communism the numbers progressed from 540 then 12,000 and up to 600,000 per year.

Under czars the plight of the serf enjoyed some protection which vanished quickly under the immorality of socialism and communism.

8. Conspiracy and ideology

Mattias uses the Sierpiński triangle with its three dots and fourth... to show that once a pattern is established it replicates itself. He writes of the "flocks fly together as "a super individual"

He speaks of conspiracy theories and the protocols of Zion as the "mother of all conspiracy theories is"?

The union and discipline of the early Church frightened the emperors of Rome. That union and discipline did not come from an ideology or a personal version of the truth.

The fifth cause of the growth of Christianity according to Edward Gibbon was, "The union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire."

This is also repeated by Historians Will and Ariel Durant who wrote:

"Among these secondary factors he listed "the pure and austere morals of the Christians" in the first century, but he added, as another cause, “the inflexible (and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant) zeal of the Christians.” And while he praised “the union and discipline of the Christian republic,” he noted that “it gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire.” In general he reduced the early progress of Christianity from a miracle to a natural process; he removed the phenomenon from theology to history.”"

Mattias is correct that A crowd creates a common resonance of an import of meaning, purpose, and power. The people become the synchronized clocks on the wall. But it was the daily ministration of pure religion that provided the daily bread and welfare through voluntary charity and a network function according to the perfect law of liberty the cemented the strong social bonds of that community of Christ.

Of the people bite one another in a system of legal charity dependent upon men who exercise authority to provide free bread for the masses then force and fear will persist. If fear persists the masses will be driven by anxiety then anger will fill their minds and hearts giving an appearance of courage but the outcome of perfect savages. In numbers guilt can be shared and it can even be denied.

The cloak of a shared ideology can give license to evil until good is evil and evil is good.

Evil is the absence good just as darkness is the absence of light. There is no greater meaning, no noble purpose locked in an ideology of selfishness and greed but only denial and darkness.

The lockdowns were a relief for some, a respite from their mundane existence and lonely life that was lacking of true meaning and purpose. Such temporary relief will drive the fear and resentment to a new level of anger and hate.

Conspiracy theories may be true but rushing to them is rushing away from self and away from "knowing thyself".

This was the path Adam took that caused him to flee the light of the tree of life in the center of garden.

Are the people the product of life or are they producers of life?

Are they simply consuming the life of others or are they being fruitful by freely giving life?

To steer or be steered

Who is the leader?

Are we steering or being steered?

Or are the masses and their leaders engaged in a mutual assent?

Like the dots of a Sierpiński triangle the population and repetition of the pattern in the members of society tranforms society.

By only recognizing and connecting limited elements of the personality of mankind we limit the outcome and distort the natural relationship..

By denying an element of mankind as they were meant to be the whole of society and the way it is bound together is altered. Such changes will pre determine the outcome.

As you remake man in an image other than God intended society is transformed.

The ultimate master

Mattias writes, "The ultimate master is the ideology, not the elete."

The ideology is a product of what the individual is willing to see. Like the Sierpiński triangle only the dots scene in the pattern can be connected.

When the people deny or refuse to see an element of themselves as they were original created their view of "truth" will become an ideology devoid of the whole truth.

Their truth will be a lie and the whole truth will become the enemy.

They will recreate the world around them in the image of their ideological lie.

M1:M2

Those who cator to the ideology of the masses will become the master but in truth he is merely a puppet of the Mass Formation of the ideology.

Mattias Desmet also speaks of a second mass that forms with a seemingly different ideology that will come into conflict with other.

Neither are willing to see the whole truth but will defend their respective ideology to their mutual destruction.

Both or all these ideologies are religiously held up by each mass group as "their truth" but if they are unwilling to see the whole truth a day of reckoning will come upon them.

These two or more masses will destroy each other and anyone who reveals, by word or deed, their dilution.

Mattias Desmet also mentions another group that is often tiny that must speak the truth no matter what the cost. But is that enough?

Bearers of the truth will become the enemy. if the are to survive the will need their social bonds to exceed the bonds of the deleted. And the must not challenge their truth on their terms.

Truth conversation

Their speech must be the whole truth but also exemplified in their life's "conversation" with one another and the world.

That is what early Christians were seeking to do but Tacitus, Suetonius, and Plutarch could not see because of their ideology that said that the legal charity through the state was the way to go. They were the intellectual elete who refused to see the whole truth and repent.

Industrialization, Mechanization, and Mediatization lead to a centralization of power allowing for fraud and corruption.

While this process can be observed is there a more subtle deletion or denial or dot of the human character already overlooked in society steering the Industrialization, Mechanization, and Mediatization that leads them into a state of corruption?

Could the plethora of conspiracy theories a distraction from the actual seed of corruption.

The centralization of power in ancient Israel began with the election of the executive office of Saul in 1 Samuel 8. There was already corruption of institution and centralization was imagined to be a solution.

Despite Samuel's facts and warnings the people were already blind.

What they had forgotten is still forgotten today which may be woven in Mattias solution.

• Hypnotized mass 30% • Not hyptontize but complies or resists 40 to 60% • Not hyptontize and speaks out 10 to 30% You do not want to advocate a returning to the old normal.

"In general counter arguments should be formulated in a displined and organized manner in a special created structure and working groups."

"The formation of such groups in itself also provide an antidote to one of the most pernitious effects of Totalitarianism, the destruction of every social bond and structure."

It was the decay of the the "social bond and structure" which began before the old normal was established. In fact it was certain elements of the natural personality of man not adressed nor even see by men.

To know the whole truth we must first know our self. But to "Know thy self" we must seek to know, follow, and see "the whole truth, the way, and the light".

Adam in his vanity tried to know the whole truth, divide good and evil with his own tree of knowledge. He fist his from the knowledge of his nakedneed, then blamed God, finally fleeing the light protecting the tree of life.

In Matthias will speak of the revelation of resonance which is the tree of life rather than our gathered knowledge of a Mechanistic material world.

Before we proceed to Chapter 9. We may ask:

How are the clocks on the wall synchronized?

Does one clock have more influence than the other?

And does that clock gather allies to bring the others into conformity?

And what of the wall which is on another plane of existence.

"everything is connected on the spiritual plane"

Part III Beyond the mechachanist worldview

9. The Dead versus the Living Universes

Mechanistic ideology see the universe as a dead but interactive random material particles.

Yet, there are the Fibonacci sequence and many other patterns repeating in nature.

Even Lorenz waterwheel seemed to be an example of chaotic theory until looking more deeply he produced the The Lorenz attractor as an example of a "strange attractor".

Strange attractors are unique from other phase-space attractors in that one does not know exactly where on the attractor the system will be. Two points on the attractor that are near each other at one time will be arbitrarily far apart at later times.

In quantum physics see the material matter is effected by observation.

Thought or consciousness seems to be more fundamental than matter. This may give more substance to the statement

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

If the shaming has a Pure and loving heart his stories and words may have a good effect. If a doctor is unethical, greedy and selfish his science may do injury.

Science needs "to map out the structure of the psychologic experience... Until reason transcends itself."

Before we go to Chapter 10 I listened to podcast 382. With Oliver Anthony (Christopher Anthony Lunsford) and Jordan Peterson interview

... Christopher Anthony Lunsford wants his music to be restoring something America seems to be lost.

Step back to the two commandments

Alliance for responsible citizenship.

Wants a vision for the future you need a clearer vision of the past.

What makes a good leader, "If people are using power, force, and fear." Jordan Peterson

Mattias insist on the importance of speaking out which includes our actions.

Music is away to speak the truth on a level or plain that is often seemingly exempt from some of the hostility that is bound to come.

Poetry offers a similar opportunity. This is in part the purpose of parables. To some degree this true in the movie media productions.

10. Matter Spirit

Mechanistic view remains the primary view in the common view yet more and more the observation of man and his conscious thought seem to have a greater influence in quantum mechanics than imagined by mechanistic materialism.

Power of suggestion hypnosis and the placebo effect.

The belief of the crowd has a more powerful influence than hypnosis.

Mattias tells of example where what we hear, see, or think often has more powerfull influence over the mechanistic materialism.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn tells of the prisoner in the Gulag named Gregori who over came the physical difficulties and hardship of mechanistic materialism presented in the Gulag by his ethical mental state.

11. Science and Truth

Mattias gives a long list of top scientist who not only admit that there must be godlike mind that brings the material world out of chaos.

It is the "human mind" that seems to hold the key to dominion over the material world. But is it in the mind or in the soul itself? And why is it so dark in there? Why is it not readily visible?

Is it behind the fig leaf?

“Man is reduced to a biological organism. Any treatment of any epidemic based on this view of humanity will only make the problem worse eventually.” Mattias Desmet

The real revolution must be to "Shake off rehtoric and resolutely turn to truth as a guiding principle."

"Prophesy is the ability to sense the story that grips reality."

"Wisdom is the ability to keep silent and let the other hear their own words."

"Techni is the ability to speak technically correctly to produce a logical discourse..."

Peregia the courage to publicly express words that brake through the the filacious discourse of our society.

"Isn't it dangerous to give up rationality as an ideal?"

"No one panics for a child dying on the other side of the world. This is the inconvenient truth. The rationality and humanism of the enlightenment are in many ways a masquerade and a fig leaf. Strip man of his masquerade and you look into the eyes of irrationality. Look behind the fig leaf of rationality and you will find the ancient human vices. "

"One who knows the limits of his intellect usually becomes less arrogant and more humane. "

"No logic is absolute is the prerequisite to mental freedom."

Finis

The Psychology of Totalitarianism quotes

“People perturbed by loneliness, lack of meaning, and indefinable anxiety and unease generally feel increasingly irritable, frustrated, and/or aggressive and look for objects to take these feelings out on. The sharp increase of racist and threatening language on social media during the last decade (tripling between 2015 and 2020, see chapter 5) is a striking example. What accelerates mass formation is not so much the frustration and aggression that are effectively vented, but the potential of unvented aggression present in the population—aggression that is still looking for an object.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“As Hannah Arendt states, totalitarianism is ultimately the logical extension of a generalized obsession with science, the belief in an artificially created paradise: 'Science [has become] an idol that will magically cure the evils of existence and transform the nature of man.'” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“I refer to Arendt who argued that this first condition is the most important: “The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships.”

"This deterioration of social connectedness leads to the second condition: lack of meaning in life. This second condition follows mainly from the first. Man, as a social being par excellence, lives for the Other. Remove the bond with the Other and he will experience his life as meaningless (whether he sees the connection with his loneliness or not).” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“We can honor the right to freedom of expression and the right to self-determination without feeling threatened by each other,” Desmet writes. “But there is a point where we must stop losing ourselves in the crowd to experience meaning and connection. That is the point where the winter of totalitarianism gives way to a spring of life.”

“For example, the aristocracy under Stalinism, the Jews under Nazism, the virus, and, later, the anti-vaxxers during the coronavirus crisis—and at the same time offers a strategy to deal with that object of anxiety, there is a real chance that all the free-flowing anxiety will attach itself to that object and there will be broad social support for the implementation of the strategy to control that object of anxiety.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“This process yields a psychological gain. Firstly, the anxiety that previously roamed through society as a tenebrous fog is now linked to a specific cause and can be mentally controlled via the strategy put forward in the story. Secondly, through a common struggle with “the enemy,” the disintegrating society regains its coherence, energy, and rudimentary meaning. For this reason, the fight against the object of anxiety then becomes a mission, laden with pathos and group heroism (for example, the Belgian government’s “team of 11 million” going to war against the coronavirus). Thirdly, in this fight all latent brewing frustration and aggression is taken out, especially on the group that refuses to go along with the story and the mass formation. This brings an enormous release and satisfaction to the masses, which they will not let go of easily. Through this process,” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“The great minds who followed reason and facts most rigorously came to the conclusion that, ultimately, the essence of things is beyond logic and cannot be grasped.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Although the Enlightenment tradition arose from man’s optimistic and energetic aspiration to understand and control the world, it has led to the opposite in several respects: namely, the experience of loss of control. Humans have found themselves in a state of solitude, cut off from nature, and existing apart from social structures and connections, feeling powerless due to a deep sense of meaninglessness, living under clouds that are pregnant with an inconceivable, destructive potential, all while psychologically and materially depending on the happy few, whom he does not trust and with whom he cannot identify.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Free-floating anxiety can be traced back to the first two conditions. A person who has lost his bond with the Other and does not feel meaning typically experiences an indefinable unease and anxiety. This condition has been strongly present in the first decades of the twenty-first century. For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that one in five people worldwide has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. These numbers are striking, all the more so because they are likely an underestimation. And the incidence of mental suffering in general, including the cases that go undiagnosed, is of course even higher. This can, amongst others, be concluded from the enormous consumption of psychotropic drugs. In a small country like Belgium, with eleven million inhabitants, no fewer than three hundred million (!) doses of antidepressants are taken every year.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Anxiety and unease, once tied to the oppression and abuse of the aristocracy and clergy, began to drift ineffably around in the human soul. Frustration and aggression, once held in check by fear of hell and the last judgment, proved increasingly easy to mobilize. The prospect of an afterlife dwindled and was readily replaced by belief in an artificially created, mechanistic-scientific paradise.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Totalitarian systems have always been maintained primarily by systematic indoctrination and propaganda, injected into the population on a daily basis via mass media (without mass media, it is not possible to generate such long-lasting mass formation as that which gave rise to Stalinism and Nazism). This way, the population is literally kept on the vibrational frequency of the voice of totalitarian leaders.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Religious discourse, with its system of dogmas derived from ancient texts, lost its authority. Instead of something that had to be revealed to man by God, knowledge became something man could come to on his own. All he had to do was observe phenomena with his eyes and think logically.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Dare to think! Have the courage to use your own reason!’ is therefore the motto of the Enlightenment,” as stated in 1784 by the great German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant.1” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“As such, science stumbles upon an unknowable and mysterious essence that escapes logical explanation and which can be described only in the language of poetry and metaphor.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“prohibitions of the past were declared superfluous, unnecessary to steer society in the right direction. An increasingly loose morality would eventually reconcile man with carnal desires, formerly perceived as threatening. The crippling censorship of anything contrary to the religious discourse disappeared. Freedom of speech became a basic right, education became universally available, legal assistance became a right for all, love was stripped of its duty to marry and have children, sexuality was restored and its coupling with sin and corruption was undone.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Social connections were also transformed beyond recognition. The invention of radio and television led to the rise of the mass media and a corresponding decline in direct human interactions with a merely social function. Evening meetings between neighbors, pub gatherings, harvest festivals, rituals, and celebrations—they were progressively replaced by consumption of what the media presented.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“No risk of arguing; no confrontation with painful jealousy, shame, or embarrassment; no need to dress up or to even leave the house. It also uniformized social exchanges. Public space, including the political sphere, was increasingly dominated by a shrinking number of voices that conquered the living room via the mass media.1 In other words, social relationships lost their diversity and originality.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“The worker became, as they say, a cog in the industrial machine, lubricated only by the thought of wages due. Labor changed from a cumbersome but inherently meaningful existential task into a disembodied utilitarian necessity.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“If human relationships are characterized by fundamental distrust, life becomes hopelessly complicated and society spends its energy at creating all kinds of “security mechanisms,” which in fact fuel mistrust even more and are, above all, psychologically exhausting.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“remarkable that it’s mainly the people who perform work that is directly useful—health care workers, garbage collectors, craftsmen, farmers—who get fired or whose work is so poorly rewarded that they have to almost live on the breadline or survive from subsidies (think of farmers, who produce food, the most necessary material object of all). On the other hand, the most meaningless jobs, such as administrative work, are steadily increasing in number and are, in comparison, rewarded more and more generously.” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Due to the industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world, production capacities, economic power (via a self-centralizing banking system), and psychological power (via mass media) fell into the hands of an ever-decreasing number of people. The Enlightenment tradition had promised people autonomy and freedom, but, in a way, it brought people greater (feelings of) dependence and powerlessness than ever before. This powerlessness caused people to increasingly mistrust those in power. Throughout the nineteenth century, fewer and fewer people felt that political leaders really represented their voice in public space or defended their interests. As a result, man also became disassociated from the social classes that were represented” ― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

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To come into harmony with the Law of Nature you must articulate your sincere opinion without fear of conflict or loose your soul. The purpose of being informed about the strong delusion is not for the purpose of judging others but to help guard against harm to yourself or others due to ignorance, and lose your soul.

Without a chaos of conversations in which the conflict of free wills are allowed there can be no harmony occurring within the space and time that our individual lives occupy.

To keep company with those who continue to oppress the freewill of others is to keep company with the adversary, the Satan and demons.

To accept the counsel of oppressors of free opinions without descent is to become a demon opposed to the quest for truth. T

The cities of blood spread a net of malcontent which will give license to sacrifice their neighbor's liberty to obtain the benefit at the expense of others.