The Mass Psychosis of the Western World

In June of 1374, people across Europe broke out into spontaneous dance. What some scholars believe was actually a medical condition, most believe was a mass psychogenic illness — an illness of the mind.

The people began to dance and the dancing spread. Some danced for days. Some danced until they died. Some had heart attacks or broke bones.

Then the dancing stopped.

In Kanshasa, Tanzania in 1962, schoolgirls began laughing hysterically. They could not stop. Called the Tanganyika laughter epidemic, more than 1000 people were affected. All of them laughed uncontrollably.

In Le Roy Junior-Senior High School in New York in 2011, students suffered a wave of Tourettes Syndrome. Researchers never found a chemical or biological explanation. It was a mass psychogenic illness.

Now, with the advent of mass media and social media, much of the Western World is suffering a psychogenic illness that particularly affects the elite.

Yesterday, Lia Thomas won an NCAA swimming event, beating out a female Olympic silver medalist. Thomas is the collegiate male who became a collegiate female, though keeps his penis.

As I understand it, Thomas competed rather unsuccessfully as a male athlete before deciding to become a very successful female athlete. The NCAA requires transitioning students to use hormone suppressants for a year. But a boy who goes through puberty and reaches adulthood as a male is going to maintain muscular and skeletal development that surpasses most women.

Don’t believe me? This website, boysvswomen.com, compares male high school athletes against female Olympians. The results speak for themselves. In track, high school boys consistently beat Olympic-level women. In swimming, the boys still overwhelmingly best the women.

But Western Elite demand we treat men as women if they insist. They have even dropped the “trans” prefix. Lia Thomas is not the winner of a trans-women race, but a women’s race, though he remains biologically different.

This is absurd. It is hard for me to believe that feminism has become so degraded that now men can best women as women, but this is the world the elite demand we live in.

If I were to mention this too much on social media, my accounts could be terminated. If I were to point out on Twitter that Lia Thomas is a man, Twitter would turn my account off for “misgendering,” which is an Orwellian way of saying I’m telling the truth.

Lia Thomas is well and truly going through something. He deserves our empathy. But giving empathy cannot mean giving up the truth. The truth is that men cannot become women and women cannot become men. Nor should we disembowel the English language for a group of people who make up less than one percent of the population.

The western elite have gone insane with this stuff. They are dancing St. Vitus’s dance, but instead of them dying while dancing, they just want the truth to fall over dead or you for disagreeing with them.