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Why do we have so many hysterical people in society today? If you look at old news footage even 20-30 years ago most of the time people are relatively chill. If you go 100 years back people are reallyyyy chill, just like “then I was in the war and I killed 100 men, then I was shot through the left eye, then I came home and married my high school sweetheart but she died due to diphtheria. Then I got in a car crash and lost both my legs, but overall I can’t complain” It’s actually pretty rare to see someone overwhelmed to the point of hysterical shrieking, yet on the internet it’s extremely common place. I don’t think this is because life is harder now. If anything, it’s objectively easier, safer, and more comfortable than at almost any other point in history. What has changed is how emotion is rewarded. Today, emotional dysregulation gets attention, validation, amplification, and sometimes even status. Calm, restraint, and proportional reactions don’t go viral. Hysteria does. Outrage does. Collapse does. We’ve also externalized resilience. Instead of learning how to regulate discomfort internally, people are taught that every emotional spike deserves immediate external response agreement, soothing, outrage on their behalf. So you end up with a culture where being overwhelmed isn’t a temporary state to move through, it’s an identity to perform. And once hysteria becomes a social currency, you start seeing a lot more of it.

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Remember the old D.A.R.E. commercial: “This is your brain on drugs… any questions?” Well, fast forward to today and add instant gratification, constant stimulations, outsourced parenting, impatience, social isolation, entitlement, ect, ect… Any questions?
Because the weaponized financial system that owns everything including the media we consume and the politicians you love wants you angry and ready to erupt into violence so they can crack down and throw us all into an Orwellian nightmare. Blame everything and anyone but them for the state of affairs and keep us fighting over stupid shit. The USA was sold for scrap decades ago. You are waving your flag over the husk as the last of the vultures move on to new places to pillage.
The internet was awesome, then came social media and it all went to shit. It fed a culture that needed approval. That let to posts that departed facts and moved into anything that would produce a like or thumbs up or followers. Then came the algorithms that learned how to capitalize on human emotion. Then politics. Then division. Then control. And here we are. staring at screens all day to give us the next dramatic event and make us all outraged and hysterical. We can't discern real content from fake content. We gravitate toward whatever validates our positions. You hate me, I hate you. Die mother fucker. If we all turn our screens off for a while, and maybe see the real world for ourselves, then maybe we can see the truth instead of the fabricated world view. Try it.
I think that is part of the reason. A cultural shift toward victim mentality. But I also think there are other components in play, since life is never that simple. For example, our diets and lifestyles have changed significantly, and as a result, so has our gut microbiome. We are whom we feed, and human cells within our body are outnumbered 10 to 1. The ecosystem we call the human body is extremely complex. Another consideration is the effects of earth's rapidly weakening magnetic field. A ton of research has come out in the past 5 to 7 years related to the biologic effects of hypomagnetic field exposure (related to long term space travel and exoplanet colonization). Terrestrially, the effects of increased solar and cosmic radiation entering our atmosphere and penetrating into the earth is also a rapidly growing field of research, especially regarding biological systems. There are 2 areas of the brain that are particularly vulnerable to this increased particle impact and electromagnetic field exposure. Anxiety amplification due to the stimulation of the hippocampus via these influences, combined with the suppression of locus coeruleus function results in a reduced ability to control and regulate fear and stress responses. In short, you can expect to see an increase in irrational and emotional behaviors in the general public, and an intensification of these behaviors as the magnetic field weakening accelerates. If this is the first time you've read about this, and you happen to be married / in a long term relationship, bear this in mind and see if you can correlate geomagnetic activity with your relationship dynamic.
Spending a lot of time with my grandpa and great grandma in my childhood and hearing their crazy lifestories and how they just «fuckin’ moved on» from the most gut-wrenching shit, def gave me some calm hardwiring for life that i am very grateful for now later in life.⚡️
They did use to medicate "hysterical women" back in the day. Yes, I think the fact that life is easier has contributed to this, since it's a lot easier to avoid reality. My husband and I were just discussing this, as there's a difference in cultures in the north and south of Sweden, since the north gets really cold and people have to face reality or they will die, which is more like how it was in the olden times, even 30 years ago. I think another factor is that they've been telling kids, for the last 30 years, that everything is relative, and reality is up to me, I can change any part of it. This is extra evident in how they believe men and women can change and become the other. When rules and boundaries are removed, when the kids become the rulers instead of the one's being taught reality by adults, they never grow up. 25 year olds are now acting like 5 year olds, because they've never been told that how they're behaving isn't okay. In fact, like you mention, throwing tantrums have even been celebrated, coddled, and to some extent worshipped. "If I want all the attention I need to be the loudest." So, they celebrate victimhood, hysteria, and drama. Posting things like that online also adds to them behaving that way cause now their audience is even bigger, and algorithms promote it, so it's breading even more of it, cause people crave attention. Nostr might help change this...
I would also argue that we’re watching a generation of adults who grew up thinking the world owes them a favour. That everything is malleable and should bend to their will. Compared to previous generations who had very little influence or agency over their lives and just had to take it. Add outrage porn into the mix, and baby, you got a stew going. image
That wonderful maternal instinct of the feminine, so necessary in the home to ensure all are provided for, now of significant influence in public office and big business, the domain for so long managed with the ‘don’t complain and get on with it’ masculine instinct, has made way for unprecedented levels of complaint, not only on the part of the neglected, those of genuine grievance, but any who would claim victimhood, the opportunist, those of questionable motive. Combine this with the magnification capability of a social media geared specifically to react to outrage, and you have a factor? This situation can emerge without anyone necessarily to blame. We evolved within a natural world which for so long demanded the co-operation of highly specialised roles simply so we could survive. Now it appears the restraint has been lifted, though not really. The cost is painfully apparent. Stay grounded. Maintain skills and smarts. Build co-operative community of value.
I think a major part missing here is the fact that people are significantly less healthy now. Now that I’ve fixed a large part of my health by following #animalbased, #peatstr & #primal principles (plus a healthy dose of critical thinking), I can see where my health was failing me. I’m more relaxed, more composed and more whole than I was years ago. I can see now why RFK Jr. chose to focus on health of Americans as his top priority. On the other hand, you have people who haven’t figured this out yet (which is a lot of people). Add in a mix of drugs (pharmaceutical or otherwise), plus a chaotic, confusing, collapsing fiat society, it’s no wonder many people are hysterical. Hysteria has always garnered attention. However, the commonality of it and incentives around it have increased. View quoted note →