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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Delusional people don't recognize when they are delusional.

Mass psychosis is no different.

If you can see that it's propaganda, you're not the target.

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But still i'm quite genuinely interested in the inner "mechanics" of this kind of group dynamics.

I got a very physical "field-like" (Maxwell...) theory on some processes observable in human group dynamics. It isn't a discrete but continuous problem in most aspects.

Which basically is the reason visiting my most favorite therapist once a week. She is a genius that didn't drown in the usual dogmatism of her profession.

We basically only discuss the inner workings of this magical black-box that exists when two people are talking. But from a mathematical viewpoint it gets hardcore-complicated even when there only is a third present influencing both parties just by its presence.

She is writing her thesis about this anyway.

We're trying to create something new by fusioning a lot of ideas, theories and input from her colleagues.

I always wonder what this black-box actually is when i'm talking to her.

Finding an imaginative model for this thing... Could possibly be real progress.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I got a very physical "field-like" (Maxwell...) theory on some processes observable in human group dynamics.

Like thermal dynamics or magnetic fields, it might be worth sharing predictive equations for many general maxims about political/group dynamics. (Apophenia, Dunning–Kruger effect, Eudaimonia, Gell-Mann amnesia effect, Hitchens's razor, List of eponymous laws, List of fallacies, Principle of charity, Pyrrhonism, Stoicism, etc.)

A pendulum is predictable. Add another point and it gets hardcore-complicated.

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Yep. I feel understood. Most likely. This is quite a strange day.