The Enlightenment tradition ushered in the era of science, progress, diversity of ideas, and the use of reason and logic to seek objective truth. Over time, however, as it made great discoveries and proved the falsities of religious dogmas, science became corrupted by ideology---it went from disproving the majority to being the tool of the majority; from fighting coercion and oppression to being used for coercion and oppression; from questioning religion to being religion; from truth-telling to truth-hiding. A real scientist understands that the world is too complex, nuanced, and dynamic to be neatly represented by numbers, charts, and graphs. Uncertainty, risk, and probability---not determinism---is the way of life.

But there's a price of progress. The industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world---while achieving many benefits---has produced loneliness, social isolation, and lack of social bonds among the population; loss of connection to nature; pointless administrative and technocratic jobs---bullshit jobs; loss of meaning and purpose in life; and widespread presence of free-floating anxiety within the population. A population with these characteristics is primed for mass formation and the emergence of totalitarianism. Notable examples of a mass formation event include Donald Trump, Russia, coronavirus, climate change, and terrorism.

In this episode, we discuss the societal forces that lead to totalitarianism, mass formation psychosis, corruption of science, mechanistic science and ideology, COVID hysteria, World Economic Forum and the Great Reset, and more. As always, we connect the dots.

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