Thread by @_HeartofGrace_

1/🧵 Lockdowns, the last four years, and " Do you get the impression that we're being worn down towards some end?"
Mike Yardley says "Please RT and discuss.".
How one might view this all through the lenses of Joost Meerloo, Gavin de Becker, Psychology, and Neurobiology:

https://twitter.com/YardleyShooting/status/1779239983359897730

2/ Pulling much from the book, "The R@pe of the Mind" by Meerloo: Joost Meerloo, was a psychoanalyst and expert in mass and individual brainwashing.
Joost coined the term "menticide", the death of the mind (effectively, making robots out of people).

3/ "Menticide is an organized system for psychological submission. It involves first weakening the victim’s ego through isolation, before resulting in a loss of conscious control and a rationalization of a new ideology."
How to apply Meerloo's findings to the last 4 years:

4/ "The optimal environment for menticide is one of chaos, confusion and isolation".
Beginning of 2020: global chaos, global confusion, and mass lockdowns begin societal isolation at the global level.
4 stages of menticide:
I. "Artificial Breakdown and Deconditioning.

5/ "The stage weakens the prisoner’s ego. Key devices include the suggestion of physical threats.
II. "Submission to and Positive Identification with the Enemy. Prisoners often experience “sudden surrender”.

6/ "This is often an unconscious and emotional process by a loss of conscious control."
III. "Reconditioning to the New Order. This is a process of systematic indoctrination, analogous with turning hypnosis into action. The victim is “helped” to rationalize his new ideology.."

7/ IV: "Liberation from the Totalitarian Spell."
A. Pavlovian Conditioning
Isolation: "the conditioned reflex can be developed more quickly when the target person or persons are isolated."
Reward and punishment. External Disruptors. Repetition and Boredom.

8/ Fear factor, and finally, second order stimuli.
"Fear and terror paralyze our ability to think clearly": COVID. Global panic sets in. Isolation: lockdowns.
The ASH experiments: "demonstrated the degree to which human beings feel an innate pull to conform".

9/ Society was told two weeks for lock downs. Gavin de Becker (The Gift of Fear): the unsolicited promise. The enemy makes a promise of safety.
"We're in this together"--Gavin de Becker states forced teaming is employed to gain trust quickly.
Meerloo:
"repeated suggestion and

10/ slow hypnosis through media can weaken mental awareness and agility".
Public opinion engineers are engaged through the media.
"Technology feeds this attraction to passivity in our thinking"
Study: Depersonalization occurred via internet usage. .nature.com/articles/s4159…

11/ People are experiencing at scale, depersonalization through the use of Zoom calls, social media, and other interactions, which the study shows "touching grass" does NOT mitigate.
Meerloo:
"Fear and terror paralyse our ability to think clearly."

12/ "Techniques to induce fear range from subtle, such as creating a climate of political control whereby all activities appear to be under surveillance, to the extreme, such as criminalization and purging of dissenters."
this includes: SPY MANIA: one neighbor tells on another.

13/ Criminalization: "urning people against others, justified by a new doctrine"
"Verbocracy: Propagandistic lies and catchphrases are an inexorable feature of totalitarianism."
"we're in this together. flatten the curve."
de becker: TYPECASTING: Example: "you don't want

14/ your grandmother to get harmed by you by being around her, do you?"
Labelomania.
BREATHING SPELLS: "otalitarian strategists know that when we drop our defences, we become more susceptible to suggestion. They utilize calculated breaks “strategy of fractionalized fear”.

15/ We have been "allowed" intermittent breaks in locking down, and masking.
Psychology of shock: media force fed images of burning bodies coming out of the streets in the Middle East of the "infected" who passed on.
Meerloo also states technology causes mental and physical

16/ atrophy, leading to easier states of mental submission and coercion.
Psychology: removal of attachment, break down of nuclear family, and social support systems.
"Changes in Attachment to Parents and Peers and Relations With Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic"

17/ Due to the separation of people form their loved ones, their friends, the inability to be physically close, and intimate with others has driven attachment trauma, and increased anxiety to allow for more conditioned responses, but also, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

18/ increase in depression and anxiety, and a decrease in peer attachment. This was part of the isolation process, not physically, but breaking actual attachment bonds with others, creating a fractured society where a neighbor tells on another, children are not spending

19/ time with others, their grades have dropped, their limbic systems are now disrupted, and instead of looking to your family, friends, and partner for support and guidance, you look towards the media, which has just been accused of silencing dissenters on X, people

20/ have been "cancelled", and worse.
A new generation is facing attachment harms--not just adults: adlab.ucr.edu/wp-content/upl…

21/ When babied and children are growing up, they look to their attachment figures for support, and also to know if something is safe, through visualization of facial expressions. Like Jordan Peterson said in his Maps of Meaning videos, when a child sees a snake, the child

22/ looks to the parent's reaction towards the snake to know if that thing is safe or not. Lockdowns, fear, and anxiety disrupted this process of attachment, healthy limbic system formation, broke attachment in older children and adults, causing more confusion and anxiety.

23/ Menticide.

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