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To: gg cox who wrote (217774)	11/15/2025 5:43:14 PM
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The vaccines were administered, no one is doubting that. I myself saw hundreds of people queuing up for the vaccine at stations put up near where I lived at the time. What you seem to be totally blind and deaf to is there have been downsides to the Covid Vaccination scheme. If you think there are no downsides at all, sorry your are deluding yourself. I have not read the book, but it looks worth a read. <<Desmet points out that official policies were not modified to conform with scientific findings, instead the findings were ignored and seriously harmful policies were fanatically promoted regardless of the evidence. Many thousands have died because of the lockdowns and the adverse effects of the vaccines. Meanwhile critics and dissenters were demonized and persecuted by methods normally associated with the Salem witch trials or Stalin’s purges. Desmet’s bold new theory was greeted by Covid skeptics like Robert Malone, Bret Weinstein, and Tucker Carlson with enthusiastic agreement. Desmet’s numerous social media videos racked up millions of viewers, even before his book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, became an instant best-seller in all major world languages. Desmet’s theory of mass formation (sometimes called mass formation psychosis, a label he disavows) explains the official ideology of the lockdowns and vaccines along the same lines as historical pogroms and totalitarian regimes, drawing upon the insights of thinkers such as Gustave Le Bon, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. In 1951, Hannah Arendt predicted that the totalitarianism of Stalin and Hitler would be succeeded by the totalitarianism of faceless bureaucratic ‘experts’. This prediction, Desmet claims, is now fulfilled by the fear-mongering and deliberate encouragement of popular ignorance and mass hysteria associated with the Covid lockdowns and vaccines. Ultimately, argues Desmet, we are vulnerable to the craziness of mass formation because we place too much reliance on a mechanistic view of the world and the cosmos and too much trust in the judgment of politically appointed authorities.>> Mattias Desmet: Critical Responses - The Guardian Bookshop The Guardian Newspaper supported the Covid Vaccination drive along with the rest of the media. However, they have promoted the book. Actually though, I probably don't need to read the book. I don't need to be convinced of the argument made. I am already there.