The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Mass Formation, Corruption of Science

12/08/22 • 62 min

The Enlightenment tradition ushered in the era of science, progress, diversity of ideas, and the use of reason and logic to seek objective truth. Over time, however, as it made great discoveries and proved the falsities of religious dogmas, science became corrupted by ideology---it went from disproving the majority to being the tool of the majority; from fighting coercion and oppression to being used for coercion and oppression; from questioning religion to being religion; from truth-telling to truth-hiding. A real scientist understands that the world is too complex, nuanced, and dynamic to be neatly represented by numbers, charts, and graphs. Uncertainty, risk, and probability---not determinism---is the way of life.
But there's a price of progress. The industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world---while achieving many benefits---has produced loneliness, social isolation, and lack of social bonds among the population; loss of connection to nature; pointless administrative and technocratic jobs---bullshit jobs; loss of meaning and purpose in life; and widespread presence of free-floating anxiety within the population. A population with these characteristics is primed for mass formation and the emergence of totalitarianism. Notable examples of a mass formation event include Donald Trump, Russia, coronavirus, climate change, and terrorism.
In this episode, we discuss the societal forces that lead to totalitarianism, mass formation psychosis, corruption of science, mechanistic science and ideology, COVID hysteria, World Economic Forum and the Great Reset, and more. As always, we connect the dots.
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Globalism and The Dying Citizen

Citizenship is synonymous with representative government. Citizens are not residents, serfs, peasants, or subjects. To be a citizen is to have inalienable rights---rights that cannot be taken away by some ruler or king. Today only about half of the world’s population are citizens of fully consensual governments enjoying constitutionally protected freedoms. They are almost exclusively in the West. Democracy is a rarity and only about 22 current democracies have been in existence for over half a century. That’s why you see people, come hell or high water, go through the southern border into the United States or go through the Mediterranean to reach Western Europe. People would rather be a citizen in a new, unfamiliar country than be a serf, peasant, noncitizen, or subject in their homelands.
But today, we in the West take citizenship for granted. We falsely believe that citizenship has always and will continue to exist. Some even say that, in a borderless world, the idea of a nation-state is outdated---preferring to call themselves "citizens of the world." They forget that citizenship is an exception rather than the rule. There were no citizens for most of human history. In a monarchy, theocracy, or autocracy, people did not have inalienable rights. Elected representatives did not exist. Citizenship was a revolutionary idea that came quite late to civilization. Citizenship is precious and must be cherished. It requires work. Democracy is fleeting. It’s not easy to govern oneself---much less to protect and exercise your freedoms.
We discuss a multitude of toxic forces that degrade national sovereignty and undermine citizenship, including the decline of the middle class, open borders and illegal immigration, identity politics and tribalism, unelected administrative state ("deep state"), technocratic "evolutionaries," and globalism. As always, we connect the dots.
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