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Apr 2, 2022Liked by laughlyn (johan eddebo)

I dont use the words psychopath or psychosis. Many users > many meanings.

I'm still puzzling over Matt Desmet's 'Mass Formation Psychosis". What does it reveal ? Or is it a re-branding ?

Humans are not herd animals, they are social animals. They gather for parties, BBQs, and Rock Concerts, but wouldnt want to live That Way...

Born with a loaded gun pointed at their heads, crowded into cities > easily managed (controlled).

Crowds > Stress. Stress - a co-factor to disease ? No. Stress causes dis-ease. Its effects are deep, disturbingly deep...

Space, personal space is an expensive commodity. It is hierarchised. The More Important > the more space to live in. A bigger, more spacious 'home' is nearly always the first commodity purchased by lottery winners...

The suburbanite who believes the world is over-populated feels crowded locally. (And the planet IS over-populated.) Over-population > a driver of technological surveillance systems...

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Apr 1, 2022Liked by laughlyn (johan eddebo)

" We’re provided with an artificially narrow view of the world around us, constantly filtered by the vast complex of institutional power being expressed through the media and the culture industry, and at the very same time, we’re made to feel that this spectacle is actually watching us." - Brilliant observation and precisely the world of the left hemisphere as described by Iain McGilchrist.

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Guy deBord's Society of the Spectacle also gives some commentary on this...

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