Then why hadn’t he taken the most basic step in a man-overboard situation, tossing something like a life jacket, a body board or a seat cushion into the water after them? “I told myself that I couldn’t help them because they wouldn’t want help,” Mr. Schmidt explained to the police. “From what I had heard, they believe that the Covid test will give them the mark of the beast and thus they will go to hell.”
:what-the-hell:
To be fair, brainworms existed long before the internet (ie: Jonestown) but the web sure does help it spread like wildfire.
I really don't think the Internet is creating or even enabling new human social behavior. It just hyper-accelerates it. Now instead of spreading person-to-person or through print, brainworms are exchanged and distributed en masse. People became convinced of a divine mandate to kill themselves before the Internet and they still would if it was gone. Now it just spreads faster.
:what-the-hell:
To be fair, brainworms existed long before the internet (ie: Jonestown) but the web sure does help it spread like wildfire.
Jonestown will look like a minor event when compared to what internet brainworms will do to millions of people going forward.
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I really don't think the Internet is creating or even enabling new human social behavior. It just hyper-accelerates it. Now instead of spreading person-to-person or through print, brainworms are exchanged and distributed en masse. People became convinced of a divine mandate to kill themselves before the Internet and they still would if it was gone. Now it just spreads faster.