The Plague – Redux

Albert Camus was a journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist. Whether he was a philosopher, historian or prophet can only be determined by finding the context of his collected works and relating them to current affairs and recent history.

The Albert Camus novel, ‘The Plague’, or in French, ‘Le Peste’ was published in 1947. The story is set in the French Algerian city of Oran, where the rather laid back population is reluctantly nudged to deal with a plague outbreak and is placed under city-wide quarantine. The city was overrun with rats instead of the invisible viral particles that allegedly caused a more modern plague and experimental remedy that killed millions.

The passage: Before, During, and After the Event

‘In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves: in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn’t always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they haven’t taken their precautions. Our townsfolk were not more to blame than others; they forgot to be modest, that was all, and thought that everything still was possible for them; which presupposed that pestilences were impossible. They went on doing business, arranged for journeys, and formed views. How should they have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views. They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.’

The Masses:

It was more than a theory. Mass Formation Psychosis is a concept that came into the forefront of trying to explain the behaviors of populations exposed to the fear based pandemic response to The Great Reset hype psyop the early 2020s.

Mass hysteria or psychosis is a social phenomenon where a group of people develop similar symptoms that do not have an identifiable physical cause much like as can be experienced with any illness. Instead, the symptoms stem from psychological causes. In mass hysteria events, the symptoms occur in two or more people who also share a common belief about what might cause the illness.

Mass hysteria is also called epidemic hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, and mass sociogenic illness. Even though mass hysteria starts in the mind, it can produce real physical symptoms and lead to severe psychological distress to the point of violence and mass murder.

Several factors are thought to contribute to the phenomenon, including groupthink, stress, and social pressure. Some psychologists believe that mass hysteria is a form of groupthink. In cases of mass hysteria, group members all develop a common fear that can spiral into a panic.

A Quote:

“In a sane world, vaccines protect the vaccinated. However, on Clown Earth, the unvaccinated must protect the vaccinated by getting vaccinated with the same vaccine that doesn’t protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated until they are vaccinated against the unvaccinated.” – Minacaputo

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