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What happens when urgency hijacks the wheel and reason takes the backseat.
means Marked by wild, uncontrolled excitement, agitation, or activity, as if driven by a fit of madness.
from From 'frenzy,' which traces back through Old French 'frenesie' to Late Latin 'phrenesis' and ultimately Greek 'phrenitis' — an inflammation of the brain, the seat of the mind. The Greeks located thought and feeling in the 'phren' (the mind or diaphragm), so a frenzy was, quite literally, a mind on fire. The same root surfaces in 'frantic' and lurks inside 'schizophrenia.'
- Latin root
- From phrenitis, an inflammation of the mind
- Crowd math
- Panic spreads faster than fire in dense crowds
- Brain state
- Adrenaline narrows focus, dumps logic overboard
- Market sibling
- Stock crashes are frenzy with a ticker tape
- Shark myth
- Feeding frenzies are often just chaotic, accidental collisions
for instance
dancing plague of 1518 — frau troffea danced uncontrollably in strasbourg until 34 people died from exhaustion within a week