Dr Robert Malone caused a storm when he appeared on the Joe Rogen Experience, and proclaimed that the world is in the grip of mass formation psychosis with Covid, namely that it is a form of mass insanity. Reason is discarded in favour of social conformity, the same rigid discipline seen in cults, like the suicidal cult of Jim Jones. I think Dr Malone has put his finger on a major problem here which has troubled defenders of democracy since the time of Plato’s critique in The Republic; namely that people are sheeple, and the evil elites are able to manipulate them with ease. Hence, democracy become dumocracy.
What can be done, if anything to prevent this? It is a difficult problem that the best minds have not cracked, and I am not going to be able to do it in a quickie essay, even if I knew the answer. Certainly, the answer is not “blowing in the wind.”