Mass hysteria: could this be what's

[cilla4progress]

going on?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases


In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria (also known as mass psychogenic illness, collective hysteria, group hysteria, or collective obsessional behavior) is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population in society as a result of rumors and fear (memory acknowledgement).[1][2]

In

[C_U_L8R]

1. They are feverishly creating a new chapter...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds

[2naSalit]

2. Groupthink gone bad...nt

[uponit7771]

5. +1

[blogslut]

3. I will keep linking this Wonkette post until everybody reads it:

These last two paragraphs

...We talk about a lot of things being the result of technology and the subsequent move away from regular human contact and socialization, but this truly is the worst of the worst. While there were certainly conspiracy theorists prior to the internet and social media, it was never this bad outside of actual cults. Part of the reason for that is that this nonsense is a real tough act to take on the road and really only begins to make sense to people once they are pretty isolated from regular human contact. Because if you start going around saying crazy things like "My numerology website proves that there is gonna be a false flag tomorrow at a football game," people will tell you no, and then when there isn't a false flag at the football game, they will say, "Hey Bob, look what didn't happen." Socialization is what tempers this kind of radicalization and forces people to stay in touch with reality.

The fact that QAnon is back is, no doubt, going to make for more than a few awkward Thanksgivings, with Aunt Barbara sitting around looking for secret messages in The National Dog Show. But if you have the wherewithal to do so, try to get them to talk about something else, anything else. It's not your job to try to deprogram them and doing so will probably just make them dig their heels in more, but you can make them remember what normal, regular, human interaction and socialization is like — because at this point, it's the only chance they've got left.

https://www.wonkette.com/8chan-and-qanon-come-back-just-in-time-to-make-thanksgiving-awkward-af

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Wow. Thank you. n/t

[brooklynite]

4. What are you referring to?

[cilla4progress]

7. That despite all evidence, truth, and fact

Republicans are sticking with their guy.

[canetoad]

8. No

This is medieval thinking, aimed primarily at women.

Please call it what it really is; manipulation of critical thinking by social/media, peer groups, news organisations and others.

[cilla4progress]

9. Hmm...

Don't know if I agree; don't know enough about it.

Makes me think of Jim Jones, Salem Witch Trials?