Collectivized suggestion grows phonier and self-destructs over time.

Evidence

The collectivization and institutionalization of the spell, on the other hand, have made the transference more and more indirect and precarious so that the aspect of performance, the ‘phoniness’ of enthusiastic identification and of all the traditional dynamics of group psychology, have tremendously increased. This increase may well terminate in sudden awareness of the untruth of the spell, and eventually in its collapse. Socialized hypnosis breeds within itself the forces which will do away with the spook of regression through remote control, and in the end awaken those who keep their eyes shut though they are no longer asleep. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 208

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: This speculative mechanism — the more institutionalized the spell, the more precarious — is testable against our own media landscape, where manufactured enthusiasm appears both more pervasive and more brittle than ever.

Related

• Collectivized hypnosis breeds the forces of its own collapse. (similarity 0.82)