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I think you're mixing up "psychosis" with fads, trends, or perhaps executive excuses to do layoffs.

A feature of psychosis is being unable to distinguish between external ideas and internal ones. For example, if a brown-nosing Yes-Man machine keeps reflecting your own leading questions back at you, laundering them into "independent" wisdom.

In contrast, I'm pretty sure COVID and the invasion of Ukraine are actual external phenomena that affect businesses and economies.

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The comment you reply to clearly distinguishes between individual psychosis and mass psychosis.

Mass psychosis is more like mass hysteria. It can occasionally manifest itself as religious cult delusions, but it can also be hyperfocus on a leader or the importance of real events.

COVID was dropped by decree in March 2022, then Ukraine took over and everyone had flags. Then AI took over.

Mediocre people always feel the need to repeat the talking points of their leaders online and offline, so were we are.

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The lists of who's, what's, why's, and when's always change but when the decades pass it's never one narrow type of people or the "not me's" which are gullible - it's just human nature + regional timing. The targeted groups are the only ones who are really easy to break out.
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