Have You Been Manipulated by the Mainstream Media or Your College?
Mass Formation Psychosis and Media Manipulation
There has been a lot of talk recently about Mass Formation Psychosis and Media Manipulation. What I want to do is talk more specifically about what that is and how it is accomplished.
Definitions
First, we need define some terms, so we are all on the same page. What is Mass Formation Psychosis? According to Webster’s Dictionary a Psychosis is a mental illness where your contact with reality is defective or lost completely. Please note that is can be in varying degrees, some people have lost touch with reality completely, while others can only be slightly out-of-touch. Formation is arranging a body or group in a prescribed manner or for a purpose. Mass Formation Psychosis would therefore be a large-scale arranging of the reality (actual facts) of a group of people so their reality (facts) lines up with a purpose. I know that is a lot of words, but let me boil it down for you: Mass Formation Psychosis is intentionally distorting what people believe to achieve an end goal.
Now for Media Manipulation. Media should be obvious, but I would include in that word all forms of mainstream media, as well as social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Manipulate is defined as follows: to change by unfair means to serve a purpose. What purpose? That is for another time, for now, it is sufficient to understand that we are being manipulated in such a way that distorts reality.
How? Colleges and Universities
There are several avenues to achieving Mass Formation Psychosis. I am going to discuss two of them here: Mainstream Media and Colleges and Universities. Let us start with the College/University route.
If you read my last post, there was a question at the bottom asking for stories of annoying things professors have done while teaching class. As I am new to Substack and do not have many readers yet, I also have no answers to my question, but I have heard stories elsewhere. They often involve an object, like a heavy key-ring, lanyard, or other noisy item, which the professor will play with while teaching the class. It is very distracting. So much so, that it is hard to focus on what the professor is saying. That is intentional. The goal is to bypass the conscious mind, as it is focused on the distraction, and go straight to the subconscious mind, planting the ideas there. This prevents the conscious mind from saying “That does not make sense” or “That does not fit the facts”.
There are many other ways to manipulate though. One way, which I will call “Don’t question the Expert” is the concept that the teacher/professor is supposed to be an expert in their field, and have studied experts beyond themselves, therefore, they cannot be questioned, only believed. If you question the teacher/professor, you are automatically a bad student. This idea is prevalent in schools, and is being taught to all ages.
Another method of manipulation is repetition. There is the idea, often attributed to Vladimir Lenin, but found before his birth in a publication titled “The Crown of a Life”:
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
If a lie is repeated often enough, it will be accepted as truth. Teach children incorrectly from a very young age, and they will believe you staunchly as adults. If you try to counter that “truth” you will be met with resistance. Why? Because the person’s truth has been distorted. They are not capable of being objective. They have been manipulated.
If this happens once or twice, it will not make much of a difference, but what if it happens on a daily basis? For years? That is where the colleges and universities have the power, they have kids for four years, and most of them were in the public school system before that. They are full of professors who believe their ideology with a religious fervor. This religious fervor leads them to reject, out-of-hand, or severely minimize, anything that does not line up with their personal belief system. That means scientific evidence that counters their beliefs are not allowed to be shown to students, because opposing views must be squashed at all costs. Seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly on both sides of an issue and making up your own mind is not allowed, unless the opposing side is so heavily censored that it looks like a ridiculous belief. This is manipulation because students are directed toward the approved beliefs while censoring the unapproved ones.
How? Mainstream Media
You can be manipulated without having attended college, however. The media holds vast power over people, and they are coordinated in their efforts. Let’s get into Media Manipulation now.
When we watch the news, we expect the media to tell us all of the important facts. We also expect them to be more or less impartial, but the reality is that most media is very partial. Far from telling us how it is, they see it as part of their job to direct public opinion. As in the colleges and universities, where the other side is not allowed to be shown, the media does not report favorably on anything that they do not believe in, even if the facts are there to support the unpopular view. In the Summer of 2020, there were “mostly peaceful” protests, where the participants set fires, looted stores, and physically attacked people. But since the “mostly peaceful” protestors represented an ideology the media agreed with, the media did as much as possible to downplay the bad and magnify the good. Now we have parents in schoolboard meetings discussing masks in the classrooms and CRT. They are labeled “domestic terrorists” because they dare to stand up and disagree with the media’s ideology. The media is right there to tell us how dangerous these parents are, and hint that the world would be better if their kids were taken away from them and given to the state.
Is this really journalism? No, it is not. Telling people what they are to believe is not news, it is coercion. What mainstream media does today is inform the general public what happened (minus any details they don’t like), what they (the media) believe about it, and what we, (the public), are supposed to believe about it. Anyone who strays from the approved narrative is demonized, belittled, and cancelled.
What Does This All Mean?
So, let’s go back to our definitions from the beginning. Mass Formation Psychosis is intentionally distorting what people believe to achieve an end goal. Media Manipulation is mainstream media changing things by unfair means to serve a purpose.
There is an idea in the Christian Church about missing the mark. It goes something like this: If you get off track, even by only one degree, years down the road you will be miles off the target. Years and years ago, the Media discovered they could change public perception based on how they reported. Professors realized they could shape kid minds from an early age, direct them toward the ideology of the professor’s choice. Somewhere along the way, people got off. Ideology became more important than truth. Lying, if it served the greater purpose, was seen as a virtue. Hiding or burying facts that do not line up is expected behavior, especially if those facts turn out to be true.
We have all been lied to. The real question is, have you believed the lies? Have you fallen prey to the manipulation tactics of either the colleges, universities, and/or mainstream media? I once heard it said that the problem with deception is that you are deceived. Next article, I will get into how to know if you have been manipulated, and what you can do about it.