I, for one, have been searching for an explanation as to why so many Canadians, and people in so many other countries, have gone insane. For example, Canada has long been governed under the principles that laws are meant to be honoured, including by the law makers, and that government is there to serve the people and not the other way round. Right now, that is not the case and specifically far too many Canadians have no problem with that! While I still have no clear-cut answer, it is obvious that they have fallen victim to a mass psychosis out of fear of a new virus. Yet I have no intention to also succumb to that fear, as it is not an acceptable option!
This has all come about due to the acceptance that we are being attacked by a virulent and deadly new virus. Ample evidence is available now, two years after it made its presence known, that neither is the case; it is NOT widely and easily contagious and it is NOT highly deadly, with most deaths being those who are infirm and on death’s door. The healthy have been spared. But not in the minds of the media, nor the minds of the general public.
To illustrate, I have two different friends that are afraid this virus will be the death of them. One is a heavy smoker. In both cases, when it is pointed out that the numbers do not support their fear, they brush it off, believing their fear is valid. Similarly, when the subject of vaccines come up and it is pointed out that a vaccine is defined as something that makes one immune yet none of the current batch of experimental drugs do that and therefore cannot be called that, they disagree without rational reasons.
The same goes for everything associated with the “controls” put in place to “combat” this “deadly pathogen.” After a year, to year and a half, has “social distancing” had a measurable positive effect? No. Has the imposition of masks had a measurable positive effect? No. Have lock downs helped, an exaggerated form of quarantine that was designed for the sick and not the healthy? No. How about those experimental drugs? No. Passports? No. None have had any positive effect on diminishing, never mind eliminating, the virus. But all have been used to destroy our rights and freedoms and the fearful masses don’t care! They are even reveling in it, welcoming with open arms the insanity that engulfed the German people in the 1930’s that culminated in one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the Holocaust.
One psychologist, Dr. Mathias Desmet, a professor at Ghent University in Belgium, has a plausible explanation to describe what is happening. He calls it “mass formation,” a form of mass psychosis. Unfortunately, I don’t buy his reasons. While the diagnosis makes sense the attributed causes do not. Primarily he believes there must be widespread social isolation and disconnectedness. That does not hold up under even the lowest magnification of scrutiny. For as long as I can remember, many of us, especially me, were quite content to stay in a small bubble of social isolation. At the core though was appreciation for freedom. To say that suddenly this is no longer the case? No, it must be something else.
One change I have seen, and which correlates with observations from studying history, is the almost total absence of a social conscience; a guide to help the masses distinguish between good and evil. At one time that was through religion. It was by joining with others to review rules to help guide them as recorded in holy scripture that society was able to find a way to live peacefully with respect for the rights of others as well as for oneself. With the invention of the printing press came the “Fourth Estate,” the “media.” They took on the role of identifying good from evil, to a large part supplanting the other estates, including the Clergy (religion).
Should this come as a surprise? During my lifetime, religion has lost a lot of its control over much of society. While I am not religious, I still hold in high regard the same moral and ethical values of my friends, many of whom are religious. Few of us have succumbed to this mass psychosis. So, it is not because of feeling isolated. The only explanation that makes sense to me is a disconnect from having strong moral and ethical values that allow one to see the evil that comes with abandoning law and trying to be the master when in fact you are the servant. Our media have picked a side, and it is the side of evil. No wonder so many act like slaves to those who wield power.
If indeed that is the case, what is the solution? How can we help those hypnotised by the evil of oppressing others under the guise of protecting yourself from an imaginary harm? I wish it would be as simple as snapping one’s fingers, Like Thanos in the movie Avengers: Infinity War, and seeing this quickly evolving dystopian world return to normal. One sure fire way of getting back to sanity, due to its widespread network, is if the Fourth Estate cast aside being propagandists, but I am not optimistic that would happen. Far too many are controlled by media barons so consumed with greed that suppression of competition and dissent have become paramount. Yet, there is hope and I am clinging to that fervently. Because the opposite, fear, is NOT an acceptable option!
