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Re:Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social cla... by lithium_throw on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @04:37AM (#28680535)
"Mass hysteria" is exactly what this is, and probably one of the greatest ones in history. I recently read "The Delusions of Crowds", written by E. Bernstein and published in 2021. Bernstein frequently notes that the author of the very well known "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", published in 1841 by Mackay and during the height of the British Railway Bubble, almost completely ignores that now well-known popular delusion.

Ironically, Bernstein had nothing to say about our response to Covid, and only occasionally parroted the accepted platitudes about the pandemic.

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Re:Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social cla... by throwrqX on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:17AM (#28681449)
As someone who is pretty well read in Le Bon and crowd psychology I still think there are several key differences between traditional mass hysteria and the COVID response in certain countries.
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Re:Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social cla... by lithium_throw on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:44AM (#28681651)
Like?

The formation of large blocs of people who will not tolerate any dissent to the current state of Covid thought, and the scapegoating of those who question or do not fall in line, and a corresponding decline in the social, moral, and economic health of a country, certainly bear striking similarities.

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