MSM and INDUCED SOCIAL PATHOLOGY

We know that we humans as a species are 1) Extremely imitative 2) "Highly suggestible" or receptive to induced behaviors.

NPCs are real. It is trivial to create specific social pathologist like sexual fetishes simply by describing them, as Penthouse magazine did with "amputee" sex, by creating kayfabe to support it in their letters to the editor column.

Creating psychic epidemics or induced illness is trivial. It is done all the time by MSM who create psychiatric illnesses that are self replicating and which spread very rapidly in huge, tightly networked populations.

Latah

Latah is a mental disorder found in Malaysia, Indonesia Japan and Thailand characterized nonsense mimicking others and trancelike behavior experienced after a sudden fright. People who have latah experiences are called latahs. Most are women. Latahs often do bizarre dances and obey commands, even to take off all their clothes, from people around them. Sometimes they sweat profusely while in the trace and often claim they have no memory of what they have done after they break out of the trance. Rather than being ostracized as outcasts they are often embraced as celebrities and their outburst became the object of playful practical jokes.

The New York Times magazine described one woman with the disease. When her husband would suddenly clap his hands she began shrieking: “Grasshopper! Grasshopper! Grasshopper! Grasshopper!,” and go into a trance and do a little dance while sweating profusely and laughing hysterically with her teeth bared. The woman developed the disease 35 years after being repeatedly poked. Cats often set her off. When that happened she often shouted the Malaysian slang word for penis.

Lawrence Osborne wrote in the New York Times magazine, “The little house looks like most of the others in the Malaysian jungle hamlet of Kampung Sebiris. The louvered windows are trimmed with heavy curtains, the tiled floor is immaculate and cushioned chairs line the walls. Even though it is over 90 degrees, there is no fan; outside, humid forest spreads out beneath a mist-wrapped mountain. As in many rural Malay homes, in the front room there is an ornate display cabinet filled with knickknacks: teapots, wooden pineapples, gaudy silk flowers. The jungle comes right up to the glass slats, and the whistling of insects is deafening.” [Source: Lawrence Osborne, New York Times magazine, May 6, 2001 ++]

“But this is no typical home. Sitting on a woven mat in the center of the room is a gray-haired woman named Dibuk ak Suut. Wrapped in a pale green sarong, the slender 59-year-old matriarch is comfortably surrounded by her husband, daughter and grandchildren – but her eyes flash nervously from side to side. Her husband, Sujang, has just served us cups of weak hot chocolate. He is in a playful mood. "Watch this," he whispers to me in Malay. Standing up, he suddenly claps his hands. Dibuk gives a start, shudders and leaps to her feet. Everyone roars with laughter. Dibuk's delicate, slightly lopsided face goes into a glassy trance. She begins shrieking: "Grasshopper! Grasshopper! GRASSHOPPER!" ++

THIS IS KEY:

Lawrence Osborne wrote in the New York Times magazine, “One puzzling characteristic of culture-bound syndromes is that they often take the form of social epidemics….In other words, instead of being physiologically rooted in every afflicted individual, some syndromes can be infectious in a purely mental way. But what starts the chain of infection? In the case of latah, no scholar can say for sure. It may be that, at one time, a neurological disorder produced exaggerated startle reactions in some Malaysian women – and that over time, as awareness of the affliction permeated the culture, the disease spread through social mimicry. [Source: Lawrence Osborne, New York Times magazine, May 6, 2001 ++]

http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Malaysia/sub5_4b/entry-3638.html

Contagious psychogenic illness or psychic epidemics have not been adequately studied. This is curious given that we humans imitate most of our social behaviors and that this imitated behavior is seldom conscious. For example, Wittgenstein's students (according to Karl Popper) imitated characteristic mannerisms of his and even after his death, students of students, people who never met the philosopher, were still imitating and transmitting his mannerisms to succeeding generations far distant from the original stimulus.

Social imitation is morally agnostic, and imitated behavior can be a harmless mannerism or dangerous, irrational genocidal or self-destructive acts. Contagious self-replicating psychogenic illness are an undervalued factor in human social behaviors.

Latahs

Latahism is usually described as a Malaysian "culture bound" phenomena. Some social scientist believe imitative behaviors in latahs are related to the "startle response" as seen in Tourette's syndrom and obsessive compulsive disorders. Lawrence Osborne wrote in the New York Times magazine, “The startle reflex is a universal one. When we are jolted by surprise, we tend to scream, shout obscenities or make involuntary gestures. And some of us are a lot jumpier than others. But with latahs, as sufferers are known, these reactions become prolonged to an extreme degree. In Malay village life, people who are susceptible to such exaggerated reactions are deliberately provoked further – through furtive pokes in the ribs or tin pots thrown behind their backs – to induce a frenzied startle-trance. Over time, latahs become so sensitive that trances can be triggered by a falling coconut. [Source: Lawrence Osborne, New York Times magazine, May 6, 2001 ++]

A far higher percentage of human behavior is imitation and experienced subjectively as free choice. "One puzzling characteristic of culture-bound syndromes is that they often take the form of social epidemics….In other words, instead of being physiologically rooted in every afflicted individual, some syndromes can be infectious in a purely mental way. But what starts the chain of infection? In the case of latah, no scholar can say for sure. It may be that, at one time, a neurological disorder produced exaggerated startle reactions in some Malaysian women – and that over time, as awareness of the affliction permeated the culture, the disease spread through social mimicry. [Source: Lawrence Osborne, New York Times magazine, May 6, 2001 ++]

Stress induced

“Across the river from the town center lies the sprawling suburb of Petra Jaya. Here, Iban and Dyak villages have begun sprouted up among the posh houses of Muslim ministers and Chinese businessmen, creating an incongruous patchwork of marble villas and wooden shacks. In this neighborhood, a pair of old ladies have become known in the markets of Kuching for their latah antics. One of them is Serai, a frail 75-year-old. She welcomes me inside her son-in-law's house, with its sweltering front room of gaudy pink couches. Thirty-five years ago, Serai explains, she was invited to join a wood chopping team of women in the forests outside Kuching. The work was arduous, and the other women constantly TEASED AND TORMENTED their inexperienced companion. "They poked and poked me," she recalls a little mournfully, "and I became latah."

“How can latah consistently strike two people at the exact same moment? It seems that Serai and Amin must have some control, even if they are unable to acknowledge it, over their affliction. And if they can remember what happens to them while in a trance state, then is it really latah? Is Michael Kenny right – that latah is more of a ritual than an illness?

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Loud noises trigger the phenomena in a way very similar to "shock induction" a mass hypnosis technique that exploits the extreme receptivity to hypnotic suggestion in the immediate wake of a collectively traumatic event such as 9/11.

The latah phenomena is one example. There are hundreds, and they are not confined to any cultural or geographic area, "Yet here was the paradox: syndromes very like latah, Geertz reported, existed in several other cultures as well. In rural parts of the Philippines, for instance, a nearly identical condition known as mali-mali is widespread. In Siberia, there is a hyperstartle complex known as myriachit, while in Thailand it is known as baah-ji and in Japan, imu. In the 1930's, scholars made a curious film about hyperstartling among the Ainu, an ethnic minority in northern Japan. The faded reels show Ainu women being startled, waving their arms like windmills and running around in a frenzy. A form of latah has even been recorded among French loggers in Canada. (Perhaps they are startled by falling trees?) Sufferers are known in medical literature, rather improbably, as the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Were these all hyperstartle complexes different forms of latah, Geertz asked, or were they all unique syndromes? "

It is trivial to exploit our human propensity for imitation, as in latah-phenomena, and use it to create unconscious self-replicating social behaviors in a given culture for purposes or marketing or for social control. It seems highly unlikely that a phenomena like this would be ignored by people interested in controlling human social and economic developments. NSA hints that we share this planet with a number of "alien" species. Perhaps pop culture is not the organic phenomena it appears to us but a cultivated cultural medium which permits the rapid transmission of ideas and behaviors more sophisticated than a startle response?

“Indeed, the power of culture to propagate mental illness has become a subject of increasing fascination in the West. In recent years, scholars have seen mysterious maladies proliferate in a way that echoes the spread of latah. Multiple-personality disorder, for example, flourished among white, middle-class American women in the 1980's. And more recently, American and European psychologists have begun tracking apotemnophilia – a new, disturbing condition in which sufferers desire to amputate one of their own limbs. The Internet, medical anthropologists say, is helping spread the condition globally. As with latah, there is no cure."