Mass formation is a form of social psychosis. Its nature has been covered here in depth before. The factors making a society vulnerable to mass formation are social atomisation, a loss of meaning in life, free floating anxiety and free floating aggression. Free floating refers to anxiety or aggression not focused on anything specific. When a crisis (either natural or manufactured) comes along, the free floating anxiety develops a strong focus on a specific perceived threat. When a ‘solution’ is offered, which may well be a trap rather than a true solution, people become fanatically focused upon it, to the exclusion of all else. It’s as if they were collectively hypnotised. They can no longer see evidence against their chosen ‘solution’, no matter how obvious it may be to those not caught up in the mass formation. The become radically intolerant of anyone who opposes the implementation of the ‘solution’, and if the mass formation leads to its logical conclusion, it will end in atrocities. Social psychosis is an emotional state, and as such is highly contagious. Humans, like other mammals, internalise, express, and act upon the emotions they perceive around them. It can be difficult, and increasingly dangerous, to be a dissident, but dissidents speaking out in opposition is the only means of weakening the hypnosis sufficiently to orevent the mass formation reaching its violent final form.
This is exactly what’s happening in Israel today, and has reached its logical conclusion as the country is committing constant atrocities in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. The dead since October 7th number in the hundreds of thousands, with many unaccounted for as they’re buried under the rubble of their former homes. Israelis celebrate their war crimes. There are school trips to the edge of Gaza so the students can watch the bombing. A new death penalty law has been passed, only applicable to Palestinians. Government ministers refer to the Palestinians, and their other neighbours, as Amalek, which is a religious reference to a tribe that was ordered to be slaughtered in its entirety. The country has come to collectively believe that it’s their moral duty to kill all their enemies, even children and babies, because they would otherwise grow up to be Arabs, and they consider all Arabs to be terrorists. The whole country is in the grip of mob mentality and bloodlust. It’s becoming more religious, but of the fire and brimstone kind.
Israelis have always felt threatened by their neighbours, and sought to increase their own security at the expense of neighbouring states. October 7th, which it is increasingly clear was allowed to happen, cemented this fear very strongly. It unified a previously divided country behind a desire to exterminate the Palestinians and ‘ethnically clease’ the Arab populations between the Nile and the Euphrates in order to create Greater Israel. Israel is now at war with/in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen, and it describes Turkey and Pakistan as further targets. It regards other ethnicities and adherents to other religions as subhuman – lacking a full soul. Government ministers have proclaimed that international law doesn’t apply to the ‘chosen people’.
Israel has a population of under nine million, of who less than seven million are Jewish, and that number is decreasing as people emigrate. The surrounding region has a population of about a hundred and ninety million. Only people in the grip of a mass formation could fail to realise that they lack the capacity to take on all their neighbours at once, even with the backing of the US. It should have been obvious from the beginning that war with Iran would be futile and unwinnable, as the country is a natural fortress armed to the teeth after forty years of preparation. However, no reason or logic or evidence can penetrate minds in the grip of a mass formation. Having failed to be on the winning side in the war, Israel is now determined to derail any attempt at peace in whatever way necessary. Expect targeted assassinations, false flag attacks, terrorism, dirty tactics like the pager bombings etc. The country is at risk of disintegration due to economic collapse and widespread demoralisation, especially amongst young IDF soldiers who now have PTSD. The IDF is aware of its own limitations, but political considerations (namely Netanyahu’s desire to stay out of jail) dictate that there are no limits, and that total destruction if enemies is an imperative no matter the cost. For a nuclear power to be so deep in the grip of a mass formation is extremely dangerous. Combine that with a US – another nuclear power – in political turmoil, and run by a group of incompentent fools with plenty of hubris but no strategy, and the risk is very high. Beware of narratives pushed by warmongers for their own purposes.
