This is a very good article about mass psychogenic illnesses and how online feeds them through a kind of parasocial validation.
Just past the strictly medical analysis, it’s easy to see how this exact dynamic drives most Current Year ideological hysterics theamericanconservative.com/what-long-covi…
Just past the strictly medical analysis, it’s easy to see how this exact dynamic drives most Current Year ideological hysterics theamericanconservative.com/what-long-covi…
An important feature of these cases is that they primarily affect women. I have written before about the case of Le Roy, NY, which is just one ex but illustrative of the trend.
~10 years ago the cheerleader at a HS in Le Roy starts experiencing sudden onset Tourette’s…
~10 years ago the cheerleader at a HS in Le Roy starts experiencing sudden onset Tourette’s…
Pretty soon some more cheerleaders get it. Is it some environmental pathogen? Is it a bad batch of hpv vaccine? No one can say. Then the girls are invited on Dr. Drew show on HLN. Twitching. Spasming. After the show airs, cases at the school double. Then quadruple…
A desperate school admin under advisement from a neurologist suggests the girls stop using Facebook. Parents are incensed. To suggest these girls are merely imagining this. Impossible! An offense! And sexist besides!
But ok, they are desperate so eventually they agree to quit FB
But ok, they are desperate so eventually they agree to quit FB
By the end of the year, the Tourette’s are completely gone. No one has anyone symptoms. The mysterious illness has been eradicated. A miracle!
It is pretty amazing to watch these clips, knowing now what we know.
It is pretty amazing to watch these clips, knowing now what we know.
Now imagine if such things don’t just manifest as psychosomatic physical symptoms, but the very real stressors of being a teenager, or perhaps being cooped up during a pandemic, mostly mediated through parasocial online relationships, begin to manifest as ideology…
What if the twitching and spasms get sublimated into psychological spasms over say, a certain fentanyl addict dying at the hands of a police officer? What if the pretext is irrelevant, what if the only thing that matters is working yourself up into a state of high moral dudgeon…
…and to have your hysterics validated and confirmed by peers who are worked up in precisely the same way?
And would it surprise you if this was a female dominated mass behavior? And moreso a particular kind of female who wear as a badge of pride their various “mental illnesses”
And would it surprise you if this was a female dominated mass behavior? And moreso a particular kind of female who wear as a badge of pride their various “mental illnesses”
“Triple masked socialist dog mommy they/them Ukraine flag disabled BLM long Covid sufferer”
Ya don’t say…
Ya don’t say…
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