Mass Formation and the Missionary Mind: A Wounded Warrior's Cry

A missionary and a healer walked into a bar...

This story was inspired by the rather lamentable schism between the Breggins, Desmet, and Malone (here, here, here, here, and here), who have all done great work in the past and have my respect. I don’t want to write a juicy gossip column on “who said what and which team to choose” since the sporting team mentality is a train to nowhere and a killer of all things good. I fully trust your brilliant selves to read perspectives from every side and make up your own minds—and then change your minds as many times as you want based on information and your gut. (One thing I am going to say for the sake of logic and facts is that I don’t think that Mattias Desmet used the concept of “mass formation” to blame the crowds—he merely said that such thing exists, and it does.)

For practical purposes, since this is such a heartbreaking train wreck at the moment, I have offered a platform on my podcast to all parties to the schism—so they can talk to each other and yell and scream and say what they wa…