"Manufacturing Mass Psychosis: Can Sanity return to an Insane World?"

[Milos Uzelac]

 

[Milos Uzelac]

"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preffering to deify error; if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever tries to destroy their illusions is always their victim."

-- Gustave Le Bonn, The Crowd: The Study of the Popular Mind. 

"Totalitarianism is a modern phenomenon of total centralized state power coupled with the obliteration of individual human rights: in the totalized state, there are those in power, and the objectified masses, the victims. 

-- Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions

"... there is in fact much that is comparable between the strange reactions of citizens of [totalitarianism] and their culture as a whole on the one hand and on the other the reactions of a sick schizophrenic..." 

-- Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

"Menticide is an old crime against the human mind and spirit but systematized anew. It is an organized system of psychological intervention and judicial perversion by which a ruling class imprints their opportunistic thoughts on those they plan to use and destroy." 

-- Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

"Totalitarianism is man's escape from the fearful realities of life into the virtual womb of leaders. The individual actions are directed from this womb - the inner sanctum.. man no longer needs to assume responsibility for his own life. The order and logic of the prenatal world reign. There is silence and peace, the peace of utter submission."

-- Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

''Each wave of terrorizing...creates its effects more easily - after a breathing spell - than the one that preceded it because people are still disturbed by their previous experiences. Morality becomes lower and lower, the psychological effects of each new propaganda campaign become stronger; it reaches a public already softened up."

-- Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

"Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot - it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal...than logic and reason. While the people are still searching for a reasonable counter-argument for the first lie, the totalitarians can assault them with another."

-- Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

"Modern technology teaches man to take for granted the world he is looking at; he takes no time to retreat and reflect. Technology lures him on, dropping him into its wheels and movements and movements. No rest, no meditation, no reflection, no conversation - the senses are continually overloaded with stimuli. Man does not learn to question his world anymore; the screen offers him the answers ready-made."

-- Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

 

"It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of a collective psychosis and save at least his own soul, who lights the beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche."

-- Carl Gustav Jung, Civilization in Transition

"We must learn to treat the demagogue and the aspirant dictators in our midst...with the weapon of ridicule. The demagogue himself is almost incapable of humor of any sort, and if we treat him with humor, he will begin to collapse."

-- Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

-- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2021 by Milos Uzelac