{"id":3985,"date":"2017-12-12T20:47:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2017-12-12T20:47:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:47:41","slug":"extraordinary-popular-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/12\/12\/extraordinary-popular-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary popular delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 6\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>As described in 1852:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 6\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Charles Mackay, LL.D. (1852). Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds.<\/p>\n<p>It seems little has changed in the past 165 years. Social media enables the mania to occur more rapidly!<\/p>\n<p>(With thanks to the late John Heffernan who suggested I read this book.)<\/p>\n<p>Just after writing the above, I saw this set of headlines at Reuters.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3987 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/voila_capture-2017-12-12_01-17-00_pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As described in 1852: We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. &#8230;. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/12\/12\/extraordinary-popular-delusions\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}