News deprivation drove Algerian men to hysterical, suicidal public demonstrations of imagined victory

Evidence

But by common consent, after an exchange of views, it would be decided that the Voice had in fact spoken of these events, but that the interpreter had not caught the transmitted information. A real task of reconstruction would then begin. Everyone would participate, and the battles of yesterday and the day before would be re-fought in accordance with the deep aspirations and the unshakable faith of the group. The listener would compensate for the fragmentary nature of the news by an autonomous creation of information. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 300 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerians collectively reconstructed and invented news from a jammed broadcast; Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340; Uncomprehended Arabic broadcasts still sustained Algerian hope through the word Istiqlal (+2 more)

Related

• Algerians collectively reconstructed and invented news from a jammed broadcast (similarity 0.93)
• Uncomprehended Arabic broadcasts still sustained Algerian hope through the word Istiqlal (similarity 0.91)
• Fragmentary colonial-blocked news was reconstructed collectively by Algerian listeners. (similarity 0.91)
• Algerian listeners collectively reconstructed and even invented the Voice’s news (similarity 0.89)
• Uncomprehended broadcasts still sustained Algerian peasants’ will to fight (similarity 0.88)
• Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith (similarity 0.86)
• Algerians treated deliberate radio static as the presence of the Revolution (similarity 0.84)
• Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Fragmentary colonial-blocked news was reconstructed collectively by Algerian listeners. #expands (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 300
• Algerians collectively reconstructed and invented news from a jammed broadcast #expands (0.85)
• Uncomprehended broadcasts still sustained Algerian peasants’ will to fight #exemplifies (0.80)
• Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340
• Uncomprehended Arabic broadcasts still sustained Algerian hope through the word Istiqlal #exemplifies (0.70)