03/02/2022
There's an important aspect of the the last 2 years on planet Earth, the understanding of which may help us prepare for what is coming.
The nub of it is this: the West has slipped into a "mass formation psychosis", which is likely to continue to influence the way society is run long after the pandemic has disappeared from the news. The condition might also be referred to as "neurotic totalitarianism". The key feature of this condition is the constant projection of fear through scenarios which are invented by government-appointed experts and amplified by the media and political leaders. Fundamentally this is not dissimilar to the paranioa about Communism which gripped the West during the Cold War, or fears about an "Islamic Caliphate", or alarmism about a "climate crisis". It is also different, in ways which I will expand on here.
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https://fifthestatepress.com/stories/something-is-happening-but-you-dont-know-what-it-20220201
The image at the top of this story is a detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymous Bosch. There's an important aspect of the the last 2 years on planet Earth, the understanding of which may help us prepare for what is coming. The nub of it is this: the West has slipped into a "mass f...