Global craziness (ie truckers in Canada) due to

[cbabe]

Covid mental illness. Not physical virus but a mental breakdown similar to the dancing plague of the 1500s.

Whole populations danced to death while suffering hallucinations and religious mania.

Thought to be psychological, emotional breakdown in response to Black Plague death toll.

Parallels are obvious to me.

What do you think?

[lagomorph777]

1. Nope. Organized mayhem, due to Putin...

...and his right-wing cronies around the planet.

[roamer65]

4. +1000

[cbabe]

5. So, political propaganda worldwide not collective unconscious or

existential terror due to climate change?

[lagomorph777]

6. Right, no need for supernatural woo stuff.

It's old-fashioned KGB manipulation of the gullible.

Also, the people involved in right-wing protests don't even believe in climate change. They are not stressing over it.

[cbabe]

7. Mental illness isn't supernatural woo. Also, don't need to 'believe'

in climate change to be affected. Anyone with a garden can tell you stories. Or bird watchers. Or hunters or fisher folk.

[lagomorph777]

8. "collective unconscious"

[cbabe]

9. Jungian psychology.

[lagomorph777]

10. I know.

That's my point.

[Irish_Dem]

2. I agree. The population is having a severe stress reaction

to a long term global crises killing millions.

All of it is exacerbated by politicians mishandling the crisis and weaponizing prevention strategies.

[dutch777]

3. Not sure it is quite at Dancing Plague levels but I do think living in a pandemic has affected us

all mentally at some level. It is an ever-present subtle stress and worry that is hard to escape.