“We’re totally not in a mass hysteria and, you know what, The Science™ says that’s not even a thing”

We’re getting into their heads.

Reuters fact-checkers to the rescue:

What a relief to know that what I’ve been talking about since the start of the pandemic isn’t even a thing.

I mean, here I am pointing toward it on March 17 of 2020 at Twitter.

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The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion.

That was before my CrossFit friends and I — while working out outdoors around March 20 of 2020 — were accosted by a lady driving by who spent fifteen minutes yelling at us about how we were killing people.

…and before we all saw a billion examples like the following…

Signs of mass hysteria have been so abundant it’s almost impossible to open your eyes or ears and not be inundated with it. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Here I talk about half a dozen signs of mass hysteria, in terms of the way those within it behave.

I’ve since devoted my intellectual efforts to making sense of mass delusion.

In late 2020 I re-started my Science Moment series, concentrating on mass delusions, with more than eighty videos in my Mass Hysteria Playlist.

And in early 2021 I launched a research institute — the Free Expression Group, http://FreeX.group — devoted to studying how mass delusions occur, and their dependence upon the broken flow of free expression.

And my 2ai Labs colleague — Dr. Tim Barber — and I also have a book coming out this summer on the foundations of free expression in social networks, called EXPRESSLY HUMAN: Decoding the Language of Emotion. This book provides a grand unifying explanation for why we have emotional expressions at all, what they are, how they work, and so on. But it also uncovers the mechanisms underlying how a social group manages the reputations among its members. In a sense, mass delusions occur exactly when those mechanisms break.

But, never mind everyone! Mass delusion isn’t even a thing, says Reuters, who has been eyeballs deep in hysteria since early March of 2020.

It’s good to see, I suppose, that the mainstream narrative is now forced to even address it. To name it, even if only to claim it’s not a thing.

Despite my attempts to communicate to the world the dangers, and principles underlying, mass hysterias, I don’t seem to have gotten the word out too much.

Mattias Desmet had a viral video interview, however, that seems to have done the trick. It got the attention of Peter McCullough and Robert Malone, who talked about mass formation (another term for the same thing), including on Rogan’s show.

So now mass hysteria is all the buzz.

And as it became the buzz, Twitter seems to have doubled down on my shadow-ban. For the first two years, talking about free expression and mass hysteria wasn’t censored. Only discussions about treatments, masks, vaccines and so on were censored.

But now, well, look at what my feed looks like! I seem to be categorized as the equivalent of hardcore porn. (You wish!)

And Google took some time reworking their algorithms to ensure that searches on “mass formation” came up the way The Science says it should.

I haven’t yet decided whether this amounts to progress. It’s definitely not necessarily progress. It merely means the mainstream narrative has now appended a new paragraph to the story, and this one waves away the very notion that there could be a mass hysteria, for the simple reason that there’s no such thing.

Don’t be surprised if when you now mention mass hysteria you’re instantly labeled a “conspiracy theorist.” Never mind that mass hysteria is the opposite of a conspiracy theory.