Why do so many still follow the narrative?

Dan Astin-Gregory discusses the phenomenon of mass formation with Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. Good insights into why your family and friends are joining the herd – and treating you like poison because you aren’t.

How we wake up the sleepwalkers? Often it comes about as a misstep by the leaders. We may have seen such an event in Australia today, when a news reporter lost his job. It seems that his sacking was at least in part due to tweets the reporter posted earlier in the year, criticising some of the Prime Minister’s covid strategies.

This takes the covid oppression right into the living rooms of the sleepwalkers. A few of them are going to start questioning the government’s line.