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> that sense of mass hysteria is always still there for me. Kind of like people speaking in tongues, or rioting in the streets when their sports team wins or lo
by linkmotif 9y ago
> that sense of mass hysteria is always still there for me. Kind of like people speaking in tongues, or rioting in the streets when their sports team wins or loses
Thank you. I was going to mention these things, because they’re how I feel about these gatherings as well. Just replace a charismatic preacher with a charismatic DJ. It feels the same to me. The charismatic preacher has fallen out of fashion these days, so instead of someone shouting quotes from the Bible and telling everyone to repent, here the DJ drops the same old beat and for some reason the crowd goes wild just the same. It’s all about that sense of belonging, it seems, that people get from these experiences, but I can’t get that from an experience that feels like mass delusion.
I posted my comments expecting lots of downvoting but was hoping to find at least one or two people who knew what I was saying. Thank you!