When the Fog Begins to Lift If you feel as though the world is going crazy, you’re not imagining things. Over the past decade, a media-driven “woke” movement gripped Western societies, creating what Michael Shellenberger calls “mass psychosis.” He argues that Democrats and media figures labeled opponents of DEI, racial quotas, and open borders as far-right—not because those people had changed, but because the political left had moved dramatically further left on cultural issues. Evidence continues to support this view. U.S. General Social Survey data suggests that center- and right-leaning opinions have remained relatively stable since the early 2000s, while left-wing views have shifted substantially. Meanwhile, publications such as *The New York Times* and *The Washington Post* sharply increased their use of terms like “racist” and “white privilege” after 2012. Shellenberger writes: “The media did this. The mass brainwashing came from college-educated elites in control of the most powerful propaganda machine in world history. These elites convinced the public that the West had grown more racist than ever, a blatant contradiction of the evidence. While the public was distracted by manufactured culture wars, governments exploited the chaos to consolidate power. Authoritarianism, spiraling debt, and economic devastation were the crippling costs of this deception.” He describes the political consequences just as bluntly: “By the time we got to 2016, Democrats had become completely unhinged. They made everything political, hunted heretics, and weaponized the government—three core characteristics of totalitarianism.” The fallout has been severe. Institutions lie in ruins, public trust has collapsed, and communities remain deeply divided. This was not simply a political miscalculation. It was ideological warfare, designed to divide and control. As the fog begins to lift, one question remains: Have we learned enough to resist the next wave of fearmongering and manipulation—or will we once again accept the same tactics from new faces?
Wanna see cancel culture in action? Look at the comments, the swarming, deliberately creating a climate of fear around me and my work. There are a few thousand of these totalitarian culture killers and this is exactly how they do it. https://t.co/d03cbJRiTw #CancelCulture #Totalitarianism #FearMongering #Nospecificcountrycodesidentifiedinthetweet.
Soit ils ont fait strictement n’importe quoi et c’est déjà partout Soit ils surjouent la peur par des mises en scène qui nous rappellent évidemment le covid !… Voyez ça, ça vient de se produire ! ⤵️ #Fearmongering #COVID19 #Conspiracy #FR
Yesterday, the public TV put a microphone on and interviewed the leader of La Falange during prime time. A government strategy to instill fear with fascism without doing anything to quell it, and the only thing it is achieving is to amplify and normalize it. (Original: Ayer, la TV pública le puso un micrófono y entrevistó en prime time al líder de La Falange. Estrategia gubernamental para meter miedo con el fascismo sin hacer nada para aplacarlo y que lo único que está consiguiendo es amplificarlo y normalizarlo. https://t.co/HVg1rZzWZl) #Fascism #MediaResponsibility #Fearmongering #ES
La empresa tecnológica Anthropic ha anunciado su nueva inteligencia artificial, Claude Mythos, destacando su capacidad superior para detectar fallos de ciberseguridad, pero advirtiendo que podría tener consecuencias catastróficas si se lanza al público, lo que ha generado dudas sobre si esta alarma es parte de una estrategia para desviar la atención de los problemas reales que la industria de la IA enfrenta. #ArtificialIntelligence #Fearmongering #Cybersecurity
