Why Do So Many Still Buy Into the Narrative?

Does it sometimes feel like you’re surrounded by people who’ve been hypnotized in some way? Well, maybe you are.

Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, and his observations over the past 18 months have led him to conclude that the overwhelming majority have indeed fallen under a kind of spell.

Except it’s not actually a spell, of course: the term for it is ‘mass formation’ and right now it’s manifesting as a psychological response — not unlike hypnosis — to the unrelenting, single-focus campaign of fear to which we have all been subjected. What triggers and sustains this mass response, where could ultimately lead us, why is a minority somehow managing to remain unaffected, and is there anything we can collectively do to break the spell before it’s too late.

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