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Podcast: Three Equals Five
Episode: Massive Hysteria (Irrational Behavior and Groupthink)
Description: Some would say we’re either currently living in a state of mass hysteria or we’re screaming full speed ahead to get there. Mike, John, and Tom discuss who defines mass hysteria and how they define it, definitions changing, nuns spontaneously meowing and then not stopping for months, the meow game, school children in Le Roy New York exhibiting muscle spasms and tics, APA being different than APA, Scientology and other cults, rational behavior being highly subjective, whether groupthink is a type of irrational behavior, the German people and the rise of the Nazi Party, Adolph Hitler writing Mein...