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What I don't understand is your opposition to defining them as an example of collectivism - particularly the madness aspect. It would seem to be a pretty well established observation now; see the Stanford Prison Experiment, which didn't require any value judgements on whether someone had or hadn't received unconditional love in their lifetimes. It focused on the actual mechanics behind groupthink and conformity, and the tendency for heirarchies to lean towards abuses of power.
I wouldn't get too hung up on the notion of collectivism == socialism. That's a political definition, but isn't the psychological one, from my understanding.
On the zimbardo prison experiment though, which is really useful for understanding people's ability to be brutal to others. What we learn from that is the impact of deindividuation and the role of power. A lot of those old school and ethically dubious experiments were interested in suggestion and the unconscious because they came from a preceeding eras where psychoanalysis and hypnosis were much more mainstream.
When we have the vantage point of history and case study you can do. Don't ever get stuck in just lab based psychology that attempts to reduce the world to close systems. The real world is unpredictable and an open system so for proper analysis we must look at the entities of a structure which illicit the phenomena, and use multiple perspectives to find better truths for different circumstances. There are many ways to cook an egg!
I do get it. What we're dealing with here on some level is cultism, and religiosity. We're also dealing with victims as you rightly say. But additionally to that, there's nothing new under the sun. We should really be wary about creating a hostile atmosphere that pushes people into the arms of the kind of security that tribalism can provide.
And it's not just a one sided thing. You'll see the same mechanisms at play across the board.
If you had 3 kids, and you let one of them get away with all sorts of bad behaviour, but you allow the other two so much latitude that they go way over the line ... well... you're a bad parent.
That's the other lens to explore this stuff through - transactional analysis.
They're screaming liberty to do what they like because they feel the state has no power over them thanks to the election 'fraud'. But at their heart is a central philosophy or belief that drives them. It's how they can welcome military or law enforcement individuals into their collective whilst pounding another law enforcement officer to death. If you believe as they do in the message, that which has been disseminated by Trump and others that we have a Deep State which is running things and has cheated Trump out of another term of office, then that isn't individualism at work to my mind. The influence of social media on Al-Qaeda recruitment was significant and I don't view this as being much different. Interestingly research in the last decade suggested that those who ended up in Al Qaeda are far more collectivist in nature than Western terrorist groups in the past. Perhaps this is now true in America and that social media has done for some of the more volatile right-wingers as it did for Al Qaeda.
just about all their archive with all the metadata attached has been downloaded by left wing activists. Every picture datestamped and geotagged will still have the data there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/kux121/all_parler_user_data_is_being_downloaded_as_we/
surely if you're so committed to a cause then being arrested and jailed would be an honour.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.