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Lincoln Earle-Centers's avatar

I read your Zeitgeist article in the New View just recently, and was struck by the tight parallels with Mattias Desmet's recently published book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. I very much appreciate and resonate with the insights and perspective of his book and your articles. I wonder how aware of each other you are?

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CE Coke-Smyth's avatar

Dear Micheal,

Thankyou very much for coining your 'Mass Psychosis'. There is a native american Hosteen Klah, who was able to walk into Hurricanes (I fear less the tsunami). Instead it seems the unassailable dogma of ignorance. Freudian transferrance requires it inevitable that under suspicion, those convicted of individual psychoses, should there words, thoughts or actions extend beyond the pales of conventional wisdoms, be assigned the full brunting of psychosis by anyone in authority before one.

https://totheoutside.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/scaling-the-matterhorn/

Immediately, a mass psychosis is diagnosed within one and into a pure black hole of not-knowing; a whole troop of us whisked away this Way - questionable services, for full treatment, in dealing with whatever is wrong. Medicatrd psychosis. The full irony is that I am fully qualified in cognitive science, but after failing my way at (#metoo) full-left-counter Sussex University, never made my way to on-paper Phd, elicting 'the equation', due double-nobel, countering full whatever's up with today's (veganism helps) power on the simplicity of an organ under fire only in labrats and monkey cells.

Instead a dry-run weak veneer of 'what is supposed to be the world', lies ontop a superficial veneer often (not always) weak-at-the-seams. Changing the system is an inevitability necessitating incessant hamsters-wheel of change. What's new? Why not instead see both systems; a tree rotten to the core, amidst the fire and ice? Gardens of Eden.

Thanks again,

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