Totalitarianism Is Fatally Flawed

Totalitarianism is fatally flawed in at least two ways. The first is that while it can forbid, it cannot motivate; and the efficient accomplishment of objectives by human beings not only requires motivation, but is usually impeded rather than enhanced by the act of forbidding. The second fatal flaw of totalitarianism is that, in seeking to control a population, it inevitably seeks to control the information which the population receives. This, however, is counterproductive to the ruling powers in three ways: First, control of information can never be perfect, so there will alway be "undesirable" information put out by the authorities, meaning that the authorities will tend to be held in disrepute by those possessing this "undesirable" information. 

Second, the populations know that it is forebidden certain types of information, and this will add to the authorities' disrepute. And third ― and most important ― the control of information will lead inevitably to a breakdown of authoritarian power.  To explain the latter, we begin by noting that, most "forbidden" information of the nature of criticism of the authorities, and is forbidden not merely because the authorities find it unpleasant, but also because criticism ― by suggesting that the authorities are imperfect ― threatens support for, and thus continuance of, the authoritarian regime.

But criticism is essential to governance for few people ― to say nothing of comfortable power elites ―  possess critical faculties sufficient to keep them from going seriously wrong without outside help, or "feedback". Indeed, trying to run a government  without criticism is much like trying to drive a car without looking at the road: The yes normally provide the driver with feedback, or "criticism", regarding his performance, and this permits him to continually correct his course and to adjust to new driving situations.

Accordingly, when the governing elites of totalitarian states cut themselves off from feedback of criticism from those whom they govern, it is inevitable that, like a driver wearing a blindfold, they will end up wrecking both their own government and the entire ship of state. It is for this reason that totalitarian communism is collapsing throughout the world, [totalitarian communism is favored by corporations now firmly established in US institutions] and that calls for democracy now issue freely where only a short time ago it would have been a death warrant. Truth inevitably brings Falsity to its knees.

John Bryant

Explosive Revolutionary Ideas That Can Change Your Life, 1995 (page 48)

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What is "Mass Formation Psychosis?"

January 2, 2021 | by Sharon Rondeau

(Jan. 1, 2022) — As of 1:46 p.m. EST on Saturday, a relatively new term of art, "Mass Formation Psychosis," trended in second place on Twitter, a position it continued to hold for more than 90 minutes as of this writing.

The phrase came to prominence in some circles in recent months after Belgian psychologist and statistician Dr. Mattias Desmet proffered a theory for what he sees as a global behavioral phenomenon stemming from the coronavirus pandemic declared in March 2020.

In Desmet's words:

Four things need to exist or need to be in place if you want a large scale mass phenomenon to emerge. The first thing is that there needs to be a lot of socially isolated people, people who experience a lack of social bonds. The second one is that there needs to be a lot of people who experience a lack of sense-making in life. And the third and the fourth conditions are that there needs to be a lot of free-floating anxiety and a lot of free-floating psychological discontent. So: meaning, anxiety, and discontent that is not connected to a specific representation. So it needs to be in the mind without the people being able to connect it to something. If you have these four things—lack of social bonds, lack of sense-making, free-floating anxiety, and free-floating psychological discontent—then society is highly at risk for the emergence of mass phenomenon.

Drs. Robert W. Malone and Peter A. McCullough, among many others, have expounded on Desmet’s findings as a means by which to explain what they see as the abandoning of scientific principles, an adoption of lockstep decision-making and censorship by world governments and social-media platforms, and a mass vaccination program now encompassing young children, who statistics show are at very low risk of complications from the virus.

Malone and McCullough have both spoken about the censorship they have encountered in the public square surrounding their dissent of the mass-vaccination campaign, which the U.S. government database VAERS shows contains more than 21,000 entries of deaths attributed to the vaccines, produced under then-President Donald J. Trump's "Operation Warp Speed."

Last week, Malone was suspended "permanently" from Twitter for an undisclosed reason, he said, and McCullough’s Instagram posts have been removed for allegedly violating the platform's guidelines.

Both physicians gave recent three-hour-long interviews to Joe Rogan, who asked serious questions about the reported side effects of the vaccines, including in children; the "canceling" of opposing views and early-treatment options by U.S. health institutions and purveying of false information to continue the approved narrative, and the resultant discrediting of the medical community at large.

One Twitter user expressed the view that "mass formation psychosis is the real pandemic."

In a December 9 Substack post, Malone wrote about the phenomenon:

As many of you know, I have spent time researching and speaking about mass psychosis theory. Most of what I have learned has come from Dr. Mattias Desmet, who realized that this form of mass hypnosis, of the madness of crowds, can account for the strange phenomenon of about 20-30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative concerning the safety and effectiveness of the genetic vaccines, and both propagated and enforced by politicians, science bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies and legacy media.

What one observes with the mass hypnosis is that a large fraction of the population is completely unable to process new scientific data and facts demonstrating that they have been misled about the effectiveness and adverse impacts of mandatory mask use, lockdowns, and genetic vaccines that cause people's bodies to make large amounts of biologically active coronavirus Spike protein.

These hypnotized by this process are unable to recognize the lies and misrepresentations they are being bombarded with on a daily basis, and actively attack anyone who has the temerity to share information with them which contradicts the propaganda that they have come to embrace. And for those whose families and social networks have been torn apart by this process, and who find that close relatives and friends have ghosted them because they question the officially endorsed "truth" and are actually following the scientific literature, this can be a source of deep anguish, sorrow and psychological pain.

Malone has compared the current "Mass Formation Psychosis" to Germany in the years between World War I and World War II, during which, in his view, the German people "went barking mad."

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