Max Rempel, Ph.D.

102. Typical Collective Emotions

Since collective emotions are typically mainstream and manipulated by MIC, they are typical for mainstream.

Patriotism is a typical collective emotion. It is associated with perception of "us" being different and better than "them".

Fear, panic, distress is a common collective emotion at time of disasters.

Collective compassion and altruistic kindness is also expressed at time of disasters.

Rage, anger, condemnation is common and is manipulated to proliferate to start a war or use other kind of force. It is often artificial, but can take over large percentage of people.

Love is a possible but rare collective emotion. It can be felt by a subset of population. People love collectively their country, some symbols like a flag, Canadians love hockey; people love some celebrities, such as Cesaria Evora, Beatles, Bob Dylan or Audrey Hepburn. People love some cultural creations such as Star Trek and Big Bang Theory.

Collective madness is a collective emotion. Love for Beatles somehow translated into a collective madness.

Fascination, excitement, inquisitiveness happen when new things are discovered, such as human flight to the moon in 1969.

Respect can be collective. It happens rarely, but say, Walter Cronkite was collectively respected and admired. He enticed in people many emotions which were experienced collectively.

In 1950s-1980s there was much more focus of many people on very few celebrities and events. Nowadays, there is more diversity. Each individual celebrity has much less influence on people's minds than in old days. There are many more television channels plus a wide range internet news sites. People are more diverse in collective emotions. Also people are more diverse and take the news differently. There are alternative channels of news, so there is an alternative layer of people taking the news quite differently from mainstream. Alex Jones and Rumor Mill News are examples of alternative news.

Here are some more collective emotions, without order: xenophobia, feeling united, sorrow, sadness, joy, positive excitement, having fun, courage, doom and gloom, suspicion, snobbery, servitude, downplay, charisma, distaste, depression, paranoia, aggravation, purposefulness, determination, spiritual uplifting, creative joy, playfulness, dark humor, righteousness, disgust, silent resistance, honorable submission, dishonored submission, impudence, emotion of taking risk, wisdom, stupidity, cold logic, strength based on knowing, boredom, senseless activity.

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Chapter 10

MIC = military-industrial complex

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