Mattias Desmet in a condensed talk on Mass Formation.
https://plandemicseries.com/massformation/
In my view, there were many mass formations in the 60’s and 70’s. As Mass Formations they faded away—the numbers and day to day cohesion dwindled— but many tens of thousands of people who found in that mass enmeshment and surrender of ANY effort at mature individuation a RELIEF and even joy that gave their lives a sense of (trivial) meaning continued. They took over our universities, and have been hypnotizing our kids into their cult ever since.
Our current Mass Formation, in my view, sprouted in 2012, when the True Believers were forced to choose between the, to me, obvious reality Obama was a failed Messiah (and patent mediocrity), and the comforting lie that his victory was all that mattered. They of course chose the latter. These are Headless Ones I wrote about back then, who allowed themselves to be ritually murdered for the Collective.
Trump, of course—as an honest, competent, and blunt man willing to return fire at the same level they were dishing it out—caused this core group to expand greatly.
COVID then simply layered on to this existing group psychosis. The numbers swelled quickly because the base was already large. Mask wearing was tantamount to hating Trump, as all the hypnotized were required to do.
And even though Trump himself deserves both the credit—and in the event the blame—for the rapid “vaccine” development, the Left quickly coopted them as a sort of self sacrificing, self flagellatory act of ritual obedience to the Collective. Taking the shot proudly says “I am willing to die rather than stand out in any way, or risk the displeasure of the enmeshed, undifferentiated, violent Mob.”
These are deep seated problems. COVID is just the latest chapter in a long novel.
And actually, the whole Roe v Wade hysteria is clearly another Mass Formation. They can layer on one another, with varying templates and slightly varying human real estate, but suggestibility is obviously the common factor, and that in turn is clearly inversely correlated with psychological individuation and following capacity for rational and dispassionate thought.