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What if everyone shared all of your beliefs and opinions? Though many of us often act as though this is a goal—to convince others we are right about everything we believe we are right about—what might this lead to? This video is a short story about the consequences of everyone agreeing and living perfectly in… Continue lendo The Algorithm Effect: How an entire population becomes mentally sick | Pursuit of Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oJtSGgVeik In June 2019, Kirsten Muller-Vahl, a psychiatrist at Hannover Medical School and head of its Tourette’s outpatient department, noticed unusual symptoms in her new set of patients. To begin with, all of them were teenagers, and they were suffering from sudden and uncontrollable tics. Even though none of them had any history of the… Continue lendo TikTok is causing a mass psychosis | Aperture
Uma cineasta, Jen Senko, explora a mudança radical de seu pai na transição de um democrata a um fanático de extrema direita, após sua imersão em talk radios de extrema direita e particularmente no principal canal conservador norte-americano, a Fox News. Senko descobre que este é um fenômeno poderoso que tem dividido famílias por todo… Continue lendo A Lavagem Cerebral do Meu Pai (The Brainwashing of My Dad) | Documentário (2015)
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the… Continue lendo The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World? | Academy of Ideas
"Man does not make his ideas; we could say that man's ideas make him." C. G. JUNG "In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their place in time, take shape as events: the trajectory is complete,… Continue lendo How Ideas can Trigger a Mass Psychosis | Academy of Ideas
Judging by Kierkegaard, the worst mode of despairing is no despair at all; it is a hopeless despair, as the subject is unlikely to realize what's going on with them, in them. Likewise, in times of pandemics, those who are partying, celebrating, not giving a damn about themselves and others, are likely to be in… Continue lendo Academy of Ideas: “Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity?”
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