Schizophrenia

[somethingelseishere]

Yeah, I've come across some pretty great videos that way! Strangely, I've been seeing
a LOT of videos suggested lately from REAL small channels - like DIY, lo-fi at home vids
from people with less than 500 and some even less than 100 subscribers. Seems kinda weird 
but it's good for the little guys I guess.

[Mister Obvious]

"Deaf people who had never heard did not experience true auditory hallucinations," says Joanna. For this group, communication came via the mind's eye: visual hallucinations of moving lips, or disembodied hands and arms making sign language movements.

https://gizmodo.com/can-deaf-people-hear...1675963437

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2007/jul/expl...ucinations

[Mister Obvious]

In the U.S., the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/0...ann-071614

Maybe this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find anything on a keyword search.

I need to do more research.

[somethingelseishere]

In the U.S., the voices are harsh and threatening

Right off I think of how poisoned American culture/society is and has been
for so long. Also, one can't rule out various malevolent forms of tech that
could be contributing to it - like voice-to-skull. Not to mention the electromagnetic
swamp of hindrance we've been swimming in since the 70's. 

Could very well be targeted action. Experimentation. 
I'm not opposed to it being more "organic" and just happening
that way - but we've got a pretty strange world going on here
in the US. Even things falling under the header of "organic" will
have fairly wide margins for the unaccountable.

[Mister Obvious]

Right off I think of how poisoned American culture/society is and has been
for so long. Also, one can't rule out various malevolent forms of tech that
could be contributing to it - like voice-to-skull. Not to mention the electromagnetic
swamp of hindrance we've been swimming in since the 70's.

This is what I think is going on too.

Could quite literally be an experiment.

I'm not opposed to it being more "organic" and just happening
that way - but we've got a pretty strange world going on here
in the US.

I've spent a substantial amount of time in Canada and I can tell you that it's a very different experience.

You can feel a heavy sense of 'surveillance' and 'intrusion' as soon as you return to the US.

I can also attest that the personal surveillance I've experienced on and off since I was a teenager (online, long story, not gonna elaborate) was also temporarily suspended whenever I was Canada for long periods of time.

[somethingelseishere]

America really does feel like an experiment by mad scientists.
Taking every extreme and throwing them all in a cage to brawl
just to see who or what is left standing at the end of it. 

Culture creation is so vile.