MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL

[Xipe Totec]

In this video we are going to explore the most dangerous of all psychic epidemics, the mass psychosis. A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction. Two examples of mass psychoses are the American and European witch hunts 16th and 17th centuries and the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century.

This video will aim to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed?

[Warpy]

1. Scary and excellent description of what the far right is doing

It's well worth the 20 minutes.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Yes. Nobody was called out by name, yet we know who's who. nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. This RW propaganda was already posted over the weekend

Sponsored by a libertarian group, using images of the media scaring people with the COVID virus. The purpose of this video is to sow mistrust of “elite” institutions such as scientists, media and the government, who are all viewed as instruments of totalitarianism.

It specifically calls out “isolation” (i.e. lockdowns/quarantines) as the key tool of totalitarian brainwashing.

Read the comments on YouTube and you will see that the intended audience was anti-vaxxers and COVID-deniers.

You clearly didn’t watch this video carefully enough, or you would not have posted it.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Everyone reads into it what they want to

Don't tell me what I did or did not do, thank you very much.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Did you post this video or not?

The video clearly contains multiple images of a tv screen with a cartoon of a COVID virus, as the viewer sits watching in terror, and the narrator says that totalitarians control the masses through isolation, brainwashing and fear.

That’s not “reading into it”, that is identifying the intended message from a RW source.

If this was a liberal, or at least balanced and open-minded discussion of “mass psychosis”, don’t you think it would have mentioned QAnon and The Big Lie and January 6, and criticized social media’s role in disseminating unscientific misinformation and fueling insurrection and anti-vaxxers? How do you explain the complete absence of this perspective and not acknowledge that this video is RW propaganda?

Instead, the video focuses on sowing mistrust in what it calls “elite” institutions such as the medical field, government and the media, themes commonly found on FOX, OAN and Newsmax.

[Xipe Totec]

6. The arguments were reasoned and persuasive,

Independent of whatever subliminal message you see in the images.

I don't really have any interest in arguing with you any more, so this is my last message to you.



Good night, and good bye.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. A message can't be subliminal if it's clear and observable in broad daylight

You, on the other hand, have clearly projected your own meaning onto the video, assuming it was a description of the MAGA faithful, which, because of the omissions I mentioned previously, it is not.

P.S. you didn’t answer any of my questions regarding those omissions. You posted the video, I would think you could defend its “reasoned and persuasive” arguments.

[ariadne0614]

8. Based on the OP's ensuing discussion thread, I wasn't sure about watching the video.

I don't have any time to waste, so I wanted more information on the source of the video--After Skool. A quick Google search revealed that After Skool was created by Mark Gooding, whose story is interesting in and of itself. Now I will watch the video and let you judge for yourselves.
https://magazine.ucsc.edu/2020/10/mark-wooding-drawing-them-in/

[ariadne0614]

9. Now that I've watched it, I highly recommend it.

My only criticism is that there are no people of color. It would be interesting to know why. If the intended audience includes right wing crazies, then maybe the exclusive depiction of white people images was meant to override their knee-jerk defense mechanisms.