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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://toad.social/users/minorusaba/statuses/115414878786895070">Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 09:01:32 JST</a><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba" title="minorusaba@toad.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/139443-48-20230930221108.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Minoru Saba" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Minoru Saba</a></section><article><p>Have been wondering why people have been willfully emulating sheep voting for wolves.<br>"There is a surprisingly common affective disorder known as the “high places phenomenon”, which is the irrational impulse to jump when on top of a tall building or precipice or suchlike, despite having absolutely no urge to die"<br>"It is sometimes known as the “call of the void” "(Marina Hyde, The Guardian)<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/britain-nigel-farage-reform-council-voters" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/britain-nigel-farage-reform-council-voters</a><br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/CallOfTheVoid" rel="tag">#CallOfTheVoid</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5787319#notice-11359283">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-10-22T09:01:32+09:00" title="Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 09:01:32 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/115414878786895070" rel="external" title="Sent from toad.social via ActivityPub">toad.social</a></span></span><a href="https://toad.social/@minorusaba/115414878786895070">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5367673">Excerpt from an opinion article in "The Guardian".
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"There is a surprisingly common affective disorder known as the “high places phenomenon”, which is the irrational impulse to jump when on top of a tall building or precipice or suchlike, despite having absolutely no urge to die. A lot of people get it, and there is, by most accounts, a certain mad thrill to it. The phenomenon arises, apparently, when the brain misinterprets a survival signal, and the instinctive fear of the height is somehow mangled into the momentary possibility of “What if I jumped?” It is sometimes known as the “call of the void”. Typically, the call of the void only lasts a split second – but it’s hard not to feel the UK is going to be experiencing it constantly for the next few years.    Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist"</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/414/838/210/693/757/original/53f9f5d0a8852b57.png" rel="external">https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/414/838/210/693/757/original/53f9f5d0a8852b57.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/britain-nigel-farage-reform-council-voters">Dear Britain, do you worry that Team Farage is just a hot mess in power? Or is everyone too angry to care | Marina Hyde</a></h5><div> from <span>https://www.theguardian.com/profile/marinahyde</span></div></header><div>Footage of Reform councillors fighting is further proof that uselessness abounds, but that’s almost moot. To voters they are very useful idiots, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 09:01:32 JST Minoru Saba
Have been wondering why people have been willfully emulating sheep voting for wolves.
"There is a surprisingly common affective disorder known as the “high places phenomenon”, which is the irrational impulse to jump when on top of a tall building or precipice or suchlike, despite having absolutely no urge to die"
"It is sometimes known as the “call of the void” "(Marina Hyde, The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/britain-nigel-farage-reform-council-voters
#CallOfTheVoid
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1. Excerpt from an opinion article in "The Guardian". Text as follows: "There is a surprisingly common affective disorder known as the “high places phenomenon”, which is the irrational impulse to jump when on top of a tall building or precipice or suchlike, despite having absolutely no urge to die. A lot of people get it, and there is, by most accounts, a certain mad thrill to it. The phenomenon arises, apparently, when the brain misinterprets a survival signal, and the instinctive fear of the height is somehow mangled into the momentary possibility of “What if I jumped?” It is sometimes known as the “call of the void”. Typically, the call of the void only lasts a split second – but it’s hard not to feel the UK is going to be experiencing it constantly for the next few years. Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist"
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  Dear Britain, do you worry that Team Farage is just a hot mess in power? Or is everyone too angry to care | Marina Hyde
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  Footage of Reform councillors fighting is further proof that uselessness abounds, but that’s almost moot. To voters they are very useful idiots, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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