Collective hysteria is not panic or even hysteria

They’re not crazy or hysterical. It’s a collective illness, i.e., emergent

Mass hysteria doesn’t mean panic. There was some initial panic that induced the mass hysteria, and after that a new “cult” had formed, its normally functioning social network equilibrium mechanisms broken.

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