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A good starter thread-complex on the origins of the Mass Covid Hysteria. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20
Mass delusions are our greatest threat. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1339282595394297860?s=20
Some helpful parallels between narratives and blockchain. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1258460433247338499?s=20
A Moment on how our distributed truth-finding mechanisms are going backwards. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1344033488392114176?s=20
A Moment on who is responsible for the mess. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1344034301487312898?s=20
Infection metaphors and madness of crowds. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1276481497051156480?s=20
Conspiracy not required. (And not plausible.) https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1311704310401634306?s=20
That lockdowns were common sense was a mass delusion. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1254796958964858882?s=20
The mass delusion wrecks common sense. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1285177755114639367?s=20
It’s a cult, not a religion. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1336691843447271430?s=20
Like the “hijab cult” in Iran. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1339035938656235523?s=20
My fourth book — and first novel — is about human nature and mass delusions. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1285642281345851393?s=20
Virtue signaling https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1273580442894163969?s=20
Remember, for most under the mass delusion, it’s not even quite their fault. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1246568736427061258?s=20
What’s new this time is not madness of crowds, but that it affected the entire world. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1308830332871995392?s=20
Deprogramming is not about informing them about “the science.” https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1308437456237232129?s=20
Partisanship tends to be largely a mass delusion as well, but at least there tend to be a couple competing mad crowds, rather than just one. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1321253552623362049?s=20
It’s not about the argument. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1274016607606583297?s=20
“Does it matter?” Thread...
Point being that for those in the cult, no, it doesn’t matter. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1334574826732859393?s=20
Point being that for those in the cult, no, it doesn’t matter. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1334574826732859393?s=20
Personal responsibility https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1343607895229919233?s=20
Self censorship https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1339681529878949888?s=20
Representative example of how a delusion — especially one about societal infection — transforms people, and lays the ground for democide. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1344674021548429318?s=20
Another representative example, this fellow so deluded he believes he is countering fascism and yet is exemplifying the epitome of it.
And he has even written a book on how to counter fascism! (Sure, one can split hairs, but... stop.) https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1345856142971441154?s=20
And he has even written a book on how to counter fascism! (Sure, one can split hairs, but... stop.) https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1345856142971441154?s=20
One of the multiple psycho-social issues driving the mass delusions. One of my Moment videos. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1346276935169695747?s=20
Bubbles as a great illustration https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1339401936303517696?s=20
Academia and journalists are part of the sickness. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1346895616975245312?s=20
There are few limits to what the madness is capable of. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1332342388069642241?s=20
Fashion follows the delusion. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1296255796272082948?s=20
Invariably, the madness leads to demands for centralized and/or top-down censorship. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1346493587912093702?s=20
Most of us in the West falsely imagined it couldn’t happen to us here, but only to those backward faraway people. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1308830332871995392?s=20
Many libertarians and/or classical liberals have spent our lives pointing out the dangers of groupthink and the madness of crowds, which in large part drives our political philosophy. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1323444572475842561?s=20
Stay aloof, save the world. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1349001940089372672?s=20
The injuries from mass delusions are at all time scales. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1349403233983356931?s=20
The Illusion of Control falsely confirms that the new moral rules are “working”. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1281671749667610625?s=20
Many cognitive biases stand in our way. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1293987276347920386?s=20
Society moves like a Ouija Board. https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1351639361989836801?s=20
