It’s not an Upside-Down world, it just looks that way.
If you haven’t already seen it, the recent interview between Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone is an eye-opener.
In it Dr. Malone refers to Professor Mattias Desmet and the idea of Mass Formation Psychosis:
How did we get here?
In a word: Wokism
We have normalized the decoupling of reality from the narrative the entire way though the Woke revolution.
As Professor Desmet stated:
Four things need to exist or need to be in place if you want a large scale mass phenomenon to emerge. The first thing is that there needs to be a lot of socially isolated people, people who experience a lack of social bonds. The second one is that there needs to be a lot of people who experience a lack of sense-making in life. And the third and the fourth conditions are that there needs to be a lot of free-floating anxiety and a lot of free-floating psychological discontent.
I would say that what we see in Woke culture hits all those points quite well.
We didn’t simply arrive in the pandemic as a “healthy” society - everything that has been happening for the last decade or so has led us to this point.
The question is now - How do we recover our collective sanity?