Tag: totalitarianism

#40. The psychological value of truth

Excerpt from: Neutrality Studies May 3, 2026: “EU in Grip of Deadly Mass-Formation” | Prof. Mattias Desmet1, 2

Mattias Desmet

Mattias Desmet: […] The problem started when modernity got alienated from the act of sincere speech. Meaning that as a human being we constantly are confronted with a choice like will we take the easy way and buy into all these narratives that everyone shares? Will we take the easy way and buy into all these social illusions and shared narratives? Or will we take a difficult road and say like look okay this doesn’t feel good to me and I will try to articulate why I feel this isn’t right.

So the act of sincere speech at all levels from the lowest to the highest level always boils down to this. It means that you decide to articulate words that go against certain ideal images that are projected onto us. Like most people even never realize that they buy into all these social norms and ideal images. They just constantly do.
They never think for themselves. They always think as others want them to think. They speak the words that other people want them to speak and they never speak their own words. That’s what happens in a mass formation. Suddenly the mass emerges.

There is this huge pressure to conform, to go into it and then there is like a few percentage of the people who decide to say that they do not agree and Gustave Le Bon3 in the 19th century already mentioned: every time a massformation emerges you have three groups:

First 20 to 30% of the people who buy into the massformation they just are completely hypnotized, literally hypnotized, it’s hypnosis, mass transformation, is mass hypnosis. And then you have a large group, 60% maybe 65%, who knows that there is something wrong but who chooses to remain silent because they feel the tremendous pressure of the massformation. And then there is a few percent of the people, sometimes up to 10% sometimes even 20%, who doesn’t go along with it and who decides to speak out, to try to to say like look there is something wrong with this narrative here of the Ukraine war, of the corona crisis, and so on.

The 3 groups in massformation [summarized by this blog’s admin].
  1. 20 to 30% of the people are completely hypnotized, literally hypnotized (mass hypnosis)
  2. 60% maybe 65% know that there is something wrong but choose to remain silent because of the tremendous pressure of the massformation
  3. 10% sometimes even 20% do not go along with it and decide to speak out

Gustave Le Bon in the 19th century already observed, he said like this small group of dissident people when they speak out, they will almost always be very disappointed because they will feel that the people in the masses refuse to wake up because once someone is in a mass formation is hypnotized and no matter what you say, no matter how clear your arguments are against the narrative, they will have no psychological impact because they refer to a part of reality to which no emotions are attached anymore.

Meaning that at a psychological level all these arguments have not the least, no impact at all. Gustave Le Bon said already: when these dissident people speak out they are very disappointed because they see that the masses refuse to wake up, and that’s crucial. He said like: but that doesn’t mean that their words have no impact. When there are people who continue to speak out in a quiet and sincere way not claiming that they know everything but just saying like: look I do not agree, there is something wrong according to me. When these people continue to speak out, they will not be able to wake up the masses, but usually they will prevent the masses from going to the last stage of the mass formation where they typically will try to destroy everyone who doesn’t go along with the masses.

So, and that’s what we need. When the masses do not go to the last stage, they will destroy themselves before they destroy everyone who doesn’t go along with them.

And to the contrary, when the people who do not fall prey to the massformation choose to be to remain silent, the masses will first destroy the people who do not go along with the masses4 and then they will destroy themselves as happened in the Soviet Union for instance. We could go give a lot of historical examples.

Pascal Lottaz: Yeah, it’s a very good point. So the act of resistance is actually also the the act of helping the mass, is actually of preventing, just through resistance, and and through saying like no, there’s something wrong here, even if you don’t go along with it, I want it to be registered.

Mattias Desmet: Exactly. You know, the only cure, I could analyze this from 20 perspectives and you would see it’s always the same conclusion:

The only cure, the only remedy for a society, sick of lies and manipulation, sick of propaganda, is sincerity. That’s the only cure. We have to rediscover the psychological value of truth for a human being. Truth is fundamental for a human being. It’s fundamental. It’s fundamental for every human being, every individual, and it’s fundamental for humans living together. There can be no society truly humane which is alienated from the act of sincere speech.

Footnotes

  1. Professor Mattias Desmet is the author of the book: The Psychology of Totalitarianism. ↩︎
  2. Professor Mattias Desmet publishes essays on Substack ↩︎
  3. “Mass formation” (psychosis) was theorized by the French sociologist and anthropologist Gustave Le Bon at the end of the 19th century. More: ResearchGate, MDPI, Goodreads ↩︎
  4. Playlist: 59 Europeans, who are speaking / writing truth, have been sanctioned. ↩︎

#6. Russophobia

Updated: February 15, 2024

This post is a comment on the video “Ugly and Russophobic”, that was published on YouTube by Jeffrey Sachs. The video has been removed however, by Jeffrey Sachs. The United Nations has published a video about Russophobia as well: ‘Russophobia’ Term Used to Justify Moscow’s War Crimes in Ukraine (Briefer) | United Nations

I have watched Jeffrey Sachs’s video before it was removed, and I can and have to state therefore that he did not use the word Russophobia to justify Russian war crimes in Ukraine, at all. He explained, that the in the west started russophobia is used by the west to create hatred against Russia in order to make their own proxy war, their provoked war, their provocations towards Russia, legal, justified. A kind of: “It is necessary to kill the Russians.” Sachs is right.

I consider the conclusion of the UN, that the word russophobia is used to justify Russian war crimes, as a misinterpretation, misinformation, therefore false, and even very effective western propaganda for the war industry.

My comment on the word “russophobia”.

It started a long time ago. In 1956 I was 8 years young and sensed the intense fear of my parents for the Russians who invaded Hungary. My father was a Russophobe: the reason for that were Stalin, Khrushchev, and what he knew about communism.

Russophobia. “Anti-Russian sentiment, commonly referred to as russophobia, is dislike or fear of Russia, the Russians, Russian culture, or Russian policy. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as intense and often irrational hatred of Russia. It is often related to anti-Soviet and occasionally also to anti-Slavic sentiment.” (Wiki)

In my opinion russophobia is a logic result, caused by the Russian Tsars, and the leaders of the communist party that followed after, like Stalin, Khrushchev. The word russophobia today is therefore in my opinion only the fear for Russian politics and their leaders.

People in the west were, because of the taboo in the west to be interested in Russia, Russian culture and so on, not informed and mostly even misinformed about the Russian people, their culture. Western peoples assumed that Russians were enthusiastically following their leaders, and therefore to be disgusted.

The phobia for Russian political leaders however existed also in the Russian people, intensified sometimes to unbearable levels, transformed because of that into an unstoppable courage. Russian composer Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 evokes the first uprising of 1905, when peasants stormed the Tsar’s Palace.

Painting by Russian painter Makovsky: The Ninth of January, 1905

The 1917 Russian Revolution brought an end to the power of the Tsar era, the Russian royal dictators.

This shows that the western interpretation of the word russophobia is based on the same fear and disgust as the common Russian people experienced for their own leaders and their politics.

Therefore the word russophobia should be replaced by a word that fathoms the fear in peoples, worldwide, for the [totalitarian] regime in their country, and the absence of, or censored independent journalism, next to physical, emotional and mental punishments, torture, terrorism that these regimes practice against those who could be a threat for informing the people about facts, and create revolutions.

This kind of regimes are everywhere, and yes, also USA, EU, the entire “democratic” west, have regime-like governments that practice and/or contribute to censorship, shadow banning, torture, terrorism, murder, cruelties. [Julian Assange]

My conclusion: The phobia for Russia is not sustainable: it does not create any positive perspective or condition for a real future for mankind. The future is cooperation, and only cooperation, which is possible when there is a will to communicate, to talk, and to find the hard core of the problems, the truth of it. The common sense of solutions. Phobia is hatred, fear is hatred, it is a closed door to communication and negotiation. It is based on one-sided information, indoctrination, ignorance, is based on absence of self reflection. Factually Russophobia is based on the phobia for the True Self, the psychological dark side, the darkness of the unconsciousness within, whereabout Carl Gustav Jung spoke and wrote, and it is within every single human being.

Others are the mirror of the self. You see in another one what is inside of you, but are not aware of. You cannot remove the dirt from the glass of the mirror: it is not there. USA does the same with Russia, and all who are Russophobic should watch inside and check there that one should work at, and solve. USA is scared to watch and admit the existence of their own darkness. USA prefers to show the mask of The Saviour of Humanity. It works. USA shows how easy it is fool people, to control the media, to mislead people, to indoctrinate people, to create enemies, to create hatred, to fuel hatred, that make people believe that the war-industry is a deity, a holy must, and the war crimes are legitimate. Finally people like war. It is good. Their hatred grows into unstoppable passionate aggression, lust for war. There is even war in the social media, and if one is against USA, you are of course for Putin[post number 8], a Russian troll. I am against war. It is outdated and will sooner or later extinct all life forms. War has to be exterminated. It can! By truth.

Additional

  1. Russophobia – Professor Glenn Diesen – See Springer Link
  2. Biden sells weapon to majority of authoritarian regimes https://theintercept.com/2023/05/11/united-states-foreign-weapons-sales/…
    • Published: May 11, 2023
    • In: The Intercept
    • By: Stephen Semler
  3. Documentary (2019) “State Funeral“, the funeral of Joseph Stalin. / The documentary ends with: According to historical research, more than 27 million Soviet citizens were murdered, executed, tortured to death, imprisoned, sent to Gulag labor camps, or deported during Stalin’s regime. An additional 15 million people are estimated to have starved to death.
  4. Shostakovich Against Stalin – The War Symphonies
  5. Superpower. The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.’
  6. Julian Assange / Assange-phobia: the phobia of the US and NATO for being unveiled.
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