On May 7, 2020, I discussed on Twitter how, once Covid collective hysteria got going, along with a new narrative, it was going to be very difficult to ever get rid of it.
Gonna have to mine this analogy for insights. We do know that hysteria is based in emotional state matching. How signal is preserved and not corrupted is an interesting question.
Very difficult to ever get rid of? Or impossible? And what counternarrative strategies exist? Necessarily guerilla at this point. Or maybe only a much larger force taking over control of the cognitive infrastructure, as an Allied army liberating a death camp that takes the townsfolk living nearby into the camp who denied the horrors done there by their friends, family and neighbors being forced to bury the bodies, a counternarrative that impossible to look away from can reverse?
What bury the bodies moment is out there? How high must the piles of bodies be stacked? Is there an off-ramp to that outcome? Or is that the inevitable result of indulging a hysteria that only burns out when the social-societal fuel of a bloodletting is all gone? The pandemic hysteria did not burn up all the fuel.
Good thoughts, Mark.
Gonna have to mine this analogy for insights. We do know that hysteria is based in emotional state matching. How signal is preserved and not corrupted is an interesting question.
Nice presentation of concept.
Very difficult to ever get rid of? Or impossible? And what counternarrative strategies exist? Necessarily guerilla at this point. Or maybe only a much larger force taking over control of the cognitive infrastructure, as an Allied army liberating a death camp that takes the townsfolk living nearby into the camp who denied the horrors done there by their friends, family and neighbors being forced to bury the bodies, a counternarrative that impossible to look away from can reverse?
What bury the bodies moment is out there? How high must the piles of bodies be stacked? Is there an off-ramp to that outcome? Or is that the inevitable result of indulging a hysteria that only burns out when the social-societal fuel of a bloodletting is all gone? The pandemic hysteria did not burn up all the fuel.