Modern Madness Syndrome
Prominent investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explains how and when mass public confusion began and some of its consequences.
Propaganda, censorship and outright cancellation
We have all heard the teens ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’, ‘fake news’, ‘conspiracy theories’, ‘mass psychosis’, and more. Some of us have also heard the sounds of silence after someone we followed online suddenly disappeared with no warning.
My 90 year-old mother-in-law told me last night that she had always believed what she was told and that she had trusted our news broadcasters to tell the truth and keep her “informed”. Recently, however, she has finally come to understand that those journalism professionals were telling one-sided stories - “narratives” - that had been approved by unknown higher-ups for public consumption.
Sharyl Attkisson does an excellent job in this linked interview telling a story about modern journalism that is not widely known or understood. I have shared this link with my mother-in-law who is shocked and dismayed at how naive she has been over the years.
“Ignorance is bliss”
This age-old phrase is true for many of our citizens. Isolated or protected from significant societal change (technological, public policy, etc), or perhaps complicit in bringing it about, some people seems to sail through the waves of change without being negatively affected.
Others are not so immune. Consider the truckers, nurses, other workers unemployed by mandates. Also consider the untold numbers of professionals like doctors, state-funded researchers, pharmacists and more who’s voices were silenced and they were commanded to obey to orders from higher-ups. Some stories break through the shield of state protection and are told by the “awakened” (often in a traumatic way). These folks endured life-changing pain and/or loss from public policies that they could not ignore or escape.
Modern Madness Syndrome is a thing to be recognized
The word ‘mad’ has different meanings depending on context. A dictionary search defines it as an adjective signifying:
Angry; resentful.
Mentally deranged.
Characteristic of mental derangement
These were the mental and emotional states experienced by many people in recent years.
Consequences have been many including: suicides, abuse of drugs and alcohol, rising depression and anxiety disorders, persistent confusion about who to trust, social isolation within families and prior social cycles, and more.
Like “long Covid”, a syndrome that can be expressed in a variety of ways, Modern Madness Syndrome (MMS) also has many different symptoms and manifestations. Also like long Covid, MMS won’t be easy to diagnose and treat. Nor will the political and public policy establishments be eager to recognize it officially.
Is Modern Madness Syndrome the first to be identified publicly as poligenic?
Iatrogenic is a medical adjective for an illness that has been induced unintentionally in a patient by a physician. Used especially of an infection or other complication of treatment.
Is there an equivalent adjective for an illness or syndrome that has been induced unintentionally in a patient by public policy? Shall we call it “poligenic.”
Sharyl Attkisson: How Propagandists Co-Opted ‘Fact-Checkers’ and the Press to Control the Information Landscape
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/sharyl-attkisson-how-propagandists-co-opted-fact-checkers-and-the-press-to-control-the-information-landscape_4221537.html
