Posted on 10/05/2023 4:10:54 PM PDT by JonPreston
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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?
This fascinating YT came out at the height of COVID, but Mass Psychosis is apparent in other aspects of American life today. Thousands of comments if interested.
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Good stuff right down to Hannah Arendt.
I was hoping that Americans were somewhat immune to mass psychosis, but sure enough I was wrong, as Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) show. Thankfully there aren’t too many of them on this site, and the relatively few we have spend most of their time supporting the Neocon War in the Ukraine threads.
It’s been said that Obama used it at his campaigns.
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TDS & Ukraine are prime examples of mass psychosis.
Boy, ain’t that the truth. I feel like I’m living every day in an insane asylum.
I would subtract Jung and Meerloo and add more Havel, Solzhenitsyn and cap it off with strong, daily consultation with Heaven, via Jesus Christ, plus the Second Amendment.
To avoid strong delusion - “Live Not by Lies.”
Add gender identity and global climate change to you list.
Covid was as well. So is globull warming.
Yes,both
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer is a good read.
This video is perhaps the greatest testament to our Free Republic sanctuary - where sane free minds still strove to exist in commonality.
That the intent. They're bringing out manufactured crises in waves so we never catch our breath.
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