{"id":61238,"date":"2022-01-02T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61238"},"modified":"2022-01-02T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:27:54","slug":"the-manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61238","title":{"rendered":"The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis \u2013 Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"cover cover-single\">\n<div class=\"cover-bg\">\n<div class=\"cover-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academyofideas.com\/2021\/04\/manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world\/\">The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis \u2013 Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\"><main id=\"main\" class=\"site-main\" role=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-11686\" class=\"post-11686 post type-post status-publish format-video has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured category-freedom category-psychology category-videos tag-mass-psychosis tag-propaganda tag-psychology-of-evil tag-totalitarianism post_format-post-format-video\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"vid-box\">\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\"><iframe class=\"iframe-vid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdzW-S8MwbI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"transcript\">The following is a transcript of this video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cThe masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3aBTbzK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Diseases of the body can spread through a population and reach epidemic proportions, but so too can diseases of the mind. And of these epidemics of the latter variety, the mass psychosis is the most dangerous. During a mass psychosis madness becomes the norm in a society and delusionary beliefs spread like a contagion. But as delusions can take many forms, and as madness can manifest in countless ways, the specific manner in which a mass psychosis unfolds will differ based on the historical and cultural context of the infected society. In the past, mass psychoses have led to witch hunts, genocides and even dancing manias, but in the modern era it is the mass psychosis of totalitarianism that is the greatest threat:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cTotalitarianism is the modern phenomenon of total centralized state power coupled with the obliteration of individual human rights: in the totalized state, there are those in power, and there are the objectified masses, the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a totalitarian society the population is divided into two groups, the rulers and the ruled, and both groups undergo a pathological transformation. The rulers are elevated to an almost god-like status which is diametrically opposed to our nature as imperfect beings who are easily corrupted by power&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis \u2013 Can Sanity Return to an Insane World? The following is a transcript of this video. \u201cThe masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32377,31582,32378,1213],"class_list":["post-61238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-academy-of-ideas","tag-mass-psychosis","tag-psychosis","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61239,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61238\/revisions\/61239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}