Obedience to Authority: An Exploration, Part III

On 'Mass Formation', Woke and Corporatist News: The Need for Theatre

Continued from Obedience to Authority: An Exploration, Part II

The Requirement of Theatre to Trigger Psychological Toxoplasmosis and Associated Self-Destructive Brain Dysfunction

These kinds of warning signs were not available to Milgram’s test subjects. They had been put into a very controlled authoritarian environment, isolated and cut off from access to information and human contact except for the lab-coated authority imposters. I suspect that Milgram expected that getting people to kill for science would require strong theatrical reinforcements. Looking back on the lead-up to the injection frenzy, this may go towards explaining the theatre that was first used to encourage people to get the injection and secondarily to blame the uninjected for the infection. And, like with Milgram, that theatre was to establish an authority that could successfully demand obedience from the majority. It was theatre that gave Hitler his power, too, for example.

It was the use of authority to focus the attention of the public on a defined enemy that was able to constellate mass formation. The creation of fear and with it anxiety was not enough. Fear deepened the floating and widespread anxiety. Authority was what told people what they could do to relieve it: first inject themselves and then force it into the disobedient. This is eerily parallel to woke ‘panic’ theatre rhetoric, which has created an enemy that needs to be destroyed: the ‘patriarchy’ and the white men who have been its purveyors and profiteers, in this case.

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Obedience to Authority and Corporate News as Being Perpetually in ‘Mass Formation’

When I read Obedience to Authority I remember that the ‘free’ press and social commentators at the time of its publication were shocked at this result. How could a society that purports to stand by and on the power of the individual and free will have ‘individuals’ who could neither stand on their own two feet or use critical thinking to enable free willed compassion?

Having read media critic Noam Chomsky’s criticism of the media, my first thought was that most likely the media’s outrage at Milgram’s results was a theatrical posture required to uphold their imagined ideal of American individualism. And I thought that, like today, they denied the actual science of what Milgram’s experiment indicated, to advocate for an ideal they had been told in school and elsewhere to believe was true.

With more thought something else came to mind. One time Chomsky was asked, paraphrased, ‘Why do news journalists, editors and producers lie?’ His answer, paraphrased, was: ‘It isn’t that they knowingly lie. People cannot tolerate living knowing that they are liars. It becomes psychologically easier for them to stop seeing inconvenient truths. And so they relay whatever propaganda they have been fed by state or other social authorities and unconsciously rewrite whatever events call into question the reality of the propagandists’ desired narratives or their own delusion of what is true. In other words, they simply do not see the truth.’ And it is easy to see how this applies to woke delusion as well.

And yet, in not seeing the truth, it can be inferred that, except for sociopaths, psychologically they will be deeply uncomfortable, likely with a free-floating ungrounded anxiety and, likely, feelings of disconnection and even questions of meaningfulness which are easily transferred to aggression. For example, we saw the very aggressive manner of the corporatist media’s anti-vaxx rhetoric in the last couple of years, as well as the aggression and even violence of the woke. 

I recently watched Jordan Peterson and journalist Piers Morgan talk about the importance of being authentic in order to avoid personal inflation and delusion. People who are unconsciously living a lie are prone to inflation and delusion. Both of these contain elements of collective group unconsciousness, one of Desmet’s descriptors for mass formation. And both apply to the media and woke, as well as to the covidians.

Journalists have played a key role in promoting America’s plans for global hegemony by following orders and broadcasting and printing fear-making lies in order to create, justify or perpetuate wars against an enemy to the state. These lies are against people who have been dehumanised by media propaganda to justify the killing, which has often included the direct or indirect killing of children. And this has been done for scores of years, despite the victims being a part of the media’s ballyhooed global community. The media, with straight-faced hypocrisy, easily ignores the joy of our modern global community so long as an enemy is required by the authority of state to sell war and its profits.

This looks to me that conditions in the newsrooms qualify as mass formation. The only difference is that it is, superficially, a less obvious form of mass formation than the outright killing of the designated enemy within the immediate community. And given the world-wide uniformity of the corporate news responses to American hegemony and covid, this mass formation is not limited to America. I refer to America because of my familiarity with having researched it for many years.

Global Hegemony goes Loco – er, really I mean, Local

Covid changed that. With their obedience to authority the corporate media have shown themselves to be, without question, in a perpetual state of mass formation. The media’s aggressive advocacy at the behest of governments and other authorities for injecting an untested undisclosed experimental something into everyone including children, while ignoring or being blind to the potential or actual collateral damage, is contemporary evidence that the members of the ‘official’ global corporate media are in mass formation.

It has been frequently pointed out that big Pharma money has been the reason for the corporate media lies. Yes, that certainly has played an important role in their behaviour, especially at the executive level because the financial bottom line is a very important authority, perhaps even their raison d’être. However, it does not fully explain the behaviour of many, perhaps most, journalists writing the stories because likely most entered into journalism as naïve seekers of the truth. For them the financial bottom line is not a direct authority. As Bari Weiss has recently shared, she left the NY Times despite the prestige of being a NY Times editor, because she refused to bow to the authority of the executives who wanted her to suppress the truth. She rejected their authority and for her that was their desire to suppress the truth. For them money, for her not the money. The journalists who stay at The Times accept the authority of the senior executives who have bowed to the authority of the pharmaceutical and government advertisers. (For the purpose of this essay, I have not incorporated the presence of the CIA in ‘in-house’ propaganda, such as was done with Operation Mockingbird or with its present incarnation(s). See “Enjoy the Show” or the book, Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News by Dr Uldo Ulfkotte.)

And in a curious way this covid action, both by the government and its media mouthpieces, is simply extending the state’s desire for world hegemony, this time, over their own people. This looks to be expressing their desire for a great reset into a one world unelected government ruled by elite corporatist decrees. The corporatists who, undoubtedly without self interest, largely own by share holdings and advertising revenues, the corporatist media.

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I acknowledge that sometimes these blatant media lies have been disclosed, although usually without headlines or social or criminal recriminations or punishments. And most often (always?) without full disclosure. The lack of the pursuit of persecution for these war crimes is a tell about the level of how asleep the majority are within government and in the newsrooms. And that it also has the complicity of the general population who, for various reasons, have chosen not to see, or not to address, the global killing that has been there for all of us to easily see as a government controlled media propaganda campaign.

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End of Part III of VII.

Link to Part IV.

Obedience to Authority: An Exploration, Part IV