The Role of Fear-Relaxation Strategies in the Control of a Population
In just 16 minutes, this video essay manages to gather a high density of ideas, which capture very well the situation we are in, but also the escape routes.
“The masses have never been thirsty for the truth. They move away from evidence they do not like, preferring to worship an error if the error seduces them. Whoever can give them illusions is easily their master; whoever tries to destroy their illusions always ends up as the victim of the crowd. ” (Gustave Le Bon)
Hannah Arendt considered totalitarianism an attempt to change human nature itself. Through illusions, the subjects of a totalitarian regime return to the childish status of blind obedience to politicians and bureaucrats. But it is also a self-delusion to convince the ruling class or the scientific elite that they have the ability to control and improve society as a whole, by regulating the smallest aspects of life. So, a society that has lost its freedom is the meeting between abusive psychopaths and sick victims.
The first stage of this “rape of the mind” is fear. Because subject to intense or lasting fear, the individual or group is likely to give in to a blindness of madness. For more efficiency, an alternation between terror and calm will be used. But each period of relaxation is followed by the fabrication of an even more intense fear.
“Each wave of terror creates effects more easily, after a short pause, than the previous episode. Because people are still troubled by the previous experience. Morality is declining more and more and the effects of each propaganda campaign are getting stronger. The message reaches an already fragile audience. “ (Joost Meerloo)
As confusion grows among the population, power propagandists will be able to use more and more incoherent messages and more blatant lies, even when contradictions become apparent to a clear mind.
“Logic can be answered with logic. But lack of logic, no,it only confuses those who think. A big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense catch better than the call to reason. When people look for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, tyrants can assault them with a new one. “ (Joost Meerloo)
Unlike the old regimes, whose messages/propaganda only sporadically reached the ears and eyes of the masses, the current regime has the advantage of technology, which delivers propaganda in a much more attractive way (Netflix, Hollywood etc.), and it’s more intelligently aimed at creating addiction, pleasure. The user is eager to consume propaganda constantly and in large quantities, because the it fascinates him. Technology separates people from their natural environment, and nullifies their breaks for self-reflection and conversation. Technology delivers semi-prepared answers, prefabricated impressions, and makes people live in a bubble of fake reality, a Matrix if you like.
The path back to mental health begins with restoring order to one’s own mind. The truth is stronger than the fictions made by tyrants.
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