"The great awakening implies that Westerners and Americans do in fact have minds, wills, memories, and consciences with which to finally awaken from what has been a long running nightmare in an impersonal cosmic machine. We were cast into the nightmare by evil magicians of behaviorism . . One of the magician’s most evil magic spells is the Big Lie that humans are mindless, soulless evolved apes, or fleshy robots." – Linda Kimball (RenewAmerica,com)

"Social contagion is the phenomenon where emotions, attitudes, and behaviors spread rapidly through a group, much like a disease, influencing individuals to adopt them from others in their social network, seen in everything from panic in crowds, viral trends, to voting patterns, and it highlights how our social environments shape our actions beyond individual choice. It involves mechanisms like emotional mimicry, social learning, and peer pressure, affecting everything from health choices and political views to even perceiving symptoms (the nocebo effect) . . " – Google

"These two evil magic spells (Big Lies)– God is dead and man is either an ape of evolution or a fleshy robot – are the magic that put us to sleep in a nightmare world, an impersonal cosmic machine." – please see Linda Kimball column

"Two broad divisions of social contagion are behavioural contagion and emotional contagion. The study of social contagion has intensified in the 21st century. Much recent work involves academics from social psychology, sociology, and network science investigating online social networks." – Wikipedia

Speaking of emotional contagion, how about that Trump Derangement Syndrome, eh?

P.S. "The common saying is that the phrase 'Fear not' (or variations like 'be anxious for nothing') appears 365 times in the Bible, offering a daily reminder, but this is a popular spiritual notion, not a strict count; actual counts vary by translation, with some finding around 170 instances of 'fear not,' though variations across the Bible likely reach closer to the symbolic 365 mark, representing one for each day of the year, as various social media posts and blogs suggest." – from a Google search of "Strongs Concordance"

PPS: The people who are so paranoid about President Trump that they want to leave the country have probably never even read one example of the Bible's "Fear nots." But the 10 metaphorical "virgins" are waking up – even the foolish ones!