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> The occupy movement predated Kony 2012 by a year

Yeah, no one lost their shit when someone said "So they're getting stoned in the park because they hate banks?" And around that time, all the chronological timelines went away, data science jobs took off, everyone was hiring people that knew how to use Hadoop.

> But mass formation psychosis as a pattern of phenomenon (not by that name though) goes back millennia

Yeah, that's not the new thing. The new thing was the TV becoming a two-way device in the form of Mall Internet and the mass statistical approach to human behavior.