A mass consensus disorder refers to deeply ingrained societal beliefs and frameworks — such as the importance of money, work, and conflict — that are manipulated to maintain power and control, often leading individuals to live in fear and denial of their true potential; breaking free from these illusions requires reclaiming sovereignty and embracing authenticity, despite the discomfort that change may bring.
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A mass consensus disorder is an idea, concept, endemic practice, or framework deeply embedded in the culture, society, state, or nation in which it thrives. It is absorbed through enculturation and indoctrination, woven into an overarching narrative that influences a population’s values and priorities on multiple levels. While widely practiced and accepted, any mass consensus can be manipulated and exploited by those seeking power, profit, and control. For this reason, adherence to it may cause profound harm, qualifying, in my opinion, as a disorder.
Those who challenge a society’s pervasive concepts and rules often face ostracism or unreasonable hardship for choosing a path that contradicts the prevailing zeitgeist — the defining spirit or mood of an era, which is, more often than not, deliberately manufactured.
Some examples of mass consensus disorders in our time include:
- The importance of a well-paying job; wage slavery
- Government and paying taxes
- Economic growth; profit as priority
- Religion as dogma; needing to be saved; being born a sinner
- Love and hope as commodities
- Money as real and necessary; banking, debt, interest rates, inflation
- Real estate or vast material gains as an aspirational necessity
- Corporations as pillars of society
- The arts relegated to secondary or tertiary importance
- Earth and her resources treated as commodities
- Humanity’s limitless spirit reduced to a commodity
- Struggle, chaos, violence, war, weapons, conflict, and competition normalized
- Love, unity, trust, passion, fulfillment, and joy treated as idyllic, unnatural, or rare
These, along with countless other ideas we may overlook or accept as givens, are often fabrications — lies we believe and perpetuate. We live in fear or quiet desperation, conditioned by a lifetime of mind control and social programming, afraid to truly thrive. This fear stems from an unwillingness to take responsibility for dismantling the familiar and creating something entirely new. So, we settle. We accept things as they are. Perhaps this is the wiser, more peaceful path, as resistance to entrenched systems inevitably generates friction, uncertainty, and social discord.
And yet, this way of living is but one possibility among countless others. What if we let the lies go? At first, we might lose our minds — which might not be such a terrible starting point. We wouldn’t be able to accept the enormity of the change immediately. But as we begin to reclaim our sovereignty and clear the detritus lodged in our hearts and minds, the awakening will accelerate. The process will become easier. Our minds will clear, our thoughts will expand, and our hearts will guide us toward what is authentic and aligned with our true values.
This awakening is always happening, though more prominently in some areas of the world than others. Where you choose to live profoundly shapes your psychology and practiced philosophy. Change is constant, but most of us fail to notice the innumerable moving parts and adaptive structures endlessly reconfiguring and realigning.
You are in the game. You are vital. You’re a catalyst, here for reasons only you can fully understand, experience, and explore. Don’t let mass consensus disorders govern your reality. They are merely tools, as transient as anything else in this realm. You hold the power to accept or reject their influence. Always.
Love your life