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Last week I was tempted to post this article, but since you brought it up... https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/killer-narratives-real-culprit-mass-shoo

• qqn 7y ago
  That was really neat, thank you for sharing this. Summary: the right blames religion/extremism, the left psychological/social issues. The author claims a third option, "narratives of insecurity", that spread kind of like Dawkins' idea of cultural memes [0,1]. I agree with him but I would categorize this as a psychosocial issue though, similar to "mass hysteria" [2]. [0] https://www.wsj.com/video/richard-dawkins-on-the-cultural-meme/5C1154F8-36EB-4797-AFE9-C60226055FB1.html https://www.wsj.com/video/richard-dawkins-on-the-cultural-me... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness