Menticide - a Thread by Christie Laura Grace
"Menticide is an organized system for psychological submission. It involves...weakening the victim’s ego through isolation, before... a loss of conscious control & rationalization of a new ideology"
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.".
*Yes, I do think we are being worn down towards some end and that Christie Laura Grace’s Twitter Thread has good points and links so I have copied and edited here as Christie is currently too busy for secretarial work. Copying the Thread and reformatting it did take me a half hour or so. Christie has a lot of Threads on the ThreadReader site about genetics of spike or Lipin nanoparticle (LNP) issues. This Thread on Menticide is not her typical info, but it is helpful, so I decided to post a copy here too.
How one might view this all through the lenses of Joost Meerloo, Gavin de Becker, Psychology, and Neurobiology:
Pulling much from the book, "The Rape 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).
"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." - Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind (internetarchive)
How to apply Meerloo's findings to the last 4 years:
"The optimal environment for menticide is one of chaos, confusion and isolation". - Joost Meerloo, (internetarchive)
Beginning of 2020: global chaos, global confusion, and mass lockdowns begin societal isolation at the global level.
4 stages of menticide:
"Artificial Breakdown and Deconditioning. The stage weakens the prisoner’s ego. Key devices include the suggestion of physical threats.”
"Submission to and Positive Identification with the Enemy. Prisoners often experience “sudden surrender”. "This is often an unconscious and emotional process by a loss of conscious control."
"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.."
"Liberation from the Totalitarian Spell." (internetarchive)
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.
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". (internetarchive)
Society was told two weeks for lock downs.
Gavin de Becker (The Gift of Fear, Goodreads): 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 slow hypnosis through media can weaken mental awareness and agility". (internetarchive)
Public opinion engineers are engaged through the media.
"Technology feeds this attraction to passivity in our thinking"
Study: Depersonalization occurred via internet usage. . .
Zoomed out: digital media use and depersonalization experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown - Scientific Reports (nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07657-8) (Ciaunica, et al., 2022)
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 paralyze our ability to think clearly." (internetarchive)
"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.
Criminalization: "turning 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 your grandmother to get harmed by you by being around her, do you?"
— Labelomania.
BREATHING SPELLS: "Totalitarian strategists know that when we drop our defenses, we become more susceptible to suggestion. They utilize calculated breaks “strategy of fractionalized fear”.
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 atrophy, leading to easier states of mental submission and coercion.
Psychology: removal of attachment, breakdown of nuclear family, and social support systems.
"Changes in Attachment to Parents and Peers and Relations With Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (Song, Vicman and Doan, 2022)
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, 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 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 have been "cancelled", and worse.
A new generation is facing attachment harms--not just adults: Attachment and the Covid-19 Panic, Ch. 3, ‘Are the Kids Alright? The Impact of the Pandemic on Children and Their Families’, by Brianne Coulombe, Bridget Cho, and Tuppett Yates, Ch 3: adlab.ucr.edu/wp-content/upl… [full book link]
When babies 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, [part 1, “a course about social conflict”], when a child sees a snake, the child 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.
Menticide? Mike Yardley says "Please RT and discuss." It does seem like it is happening to me.
Disclaimer: This information is being provided for educational purposes within the guidelines of Fair Use and is not intended to provide individual health care guidance. **This post is copied from a ThreadReader Post by Christie Laura Grace, and has some reformatting and additional links to the cited works added by me. Posting to Twitter is faster for her and she is working double shifts currently:
Reference List
(Ciaunica, et al., 2022) Ciaunica, A., McEllin, L., Kiverstein, J. et al. Zoomed out: digital media use and depersonalization experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown. Sci Rep 12, 3888 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07657-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07657-8
(Coulombe, et al., ) Attachment and the Covid-19 Panic, Ch. 3, ‘Are the Kids Alright? The Impact of the Pandemic on Children and Their Families’, by Brianne Coulombe, Bridget Cho, and Tuppett Yates, Ch 3: adlab.ucr.edu/wp-content/upl… [full book link]
Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind, (internetarchive)
Song Q, Vicman JM, Doan SN. Changes in Attachment to Parents and Peers and Relations With Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Emerg Adulthood. 2022 Aug;10(4):1048-1060. doi: 10.1177/21676968221097167. PMID: 35935716; PMCID: PMC9260195. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9260195/
Demoralization is definitely in play as a strategy. Knowing that, that is ‘their’ organized intent makes it easier to deploy organized defense. I think of candy bars near the cash register in the grocery store, ‘I see you…it’s not going to work.’ Nice post Jennifer.
I live in an area where the mask mandates were strict for a long time, and people were very compliant. I live alone, and my company sent us all home to work remotely. I definitely noticed, over time, the effect this had on me. Now that the masks have been "gone" for awhile, there are still a significant number of people wearing them -- about 10%. This is so weird, and I hate seeing it. Also, passing people on the sidewalk... some people have recovered from the trauma and will not walk out in the street to give you a wide berth as you pass. Many still will look away though, not meet your eyes to say "good morning" as you walk past each other, as used to happen. The teenagers are the worst; it never used to be this way. The compliance and conformity drive is still very strong in my community, and that worries me.