Global Mass Hysteria

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

This insight by a 19th century scholar has rarely been on such full display as it is now. In fact, the current hysteria is of an unprecedented scale. Never before has a popular delusion gone global. Hysterias in the past have been limited to a continent at most. Yet, there's nothing new in the way the current madness has evolved.

The madness has reached its peak. This is evident in how people are reverting to normal behavior. Little by little, people drop their masks. The look of fear and desperation in people's faces is evaporating, and it's again possible to exchange friendly glances with strangers in the streets.

This trend will become impossible to revert. The evaporation of fear means that love and clear thinking is on its way back. People are starting to realize that they were duped into thinking that something dangerous was afoot where there was nothing to fear, and that this fear was used to usher us into something far more dangerous; namely a willingness to accept lockdowns, mask mandates and an experimental and untested drug.

People are waking up to the fact that the hysteria was deliberately created by politicians, journalists and corporate leaders. The system that has been sold to us as being "by the people and for the people" has been revealed to be neither. The dangers of centralized power are now plain to see, and trust in the system is plummeting.

In retrospect, the lies were easy to spot. It's not difficult to make a list of culprits. However, anger is not the best way forward. Indifference is a better approach. Ask family and friends what the fuss was all about. Wonder out loud why politicians don their masks when on TV but not when out partying with friends. Express genuine puzzlement, but only when called for. Saying nothing at all is often the best strategy, because the last thing the globalists want is a public completely unfussed by their hysteria.

Simply going back to normal as if the past 20 months never happened is the ultimate rebuke of the political and corporate class. When combined with genuine puzzlement and a refusal to go along with clownish nonsense, the new normal will be the exact opposite of what the globalists had in mind.

Boris Johnson

By Ben Shread / Cabinet Office, OGL 3, Link