Masks as Tribal Signals: Compliance

Donate: 🙏https://www.buymeacoffee.com/slobodnipoI Willis shifts from medicine to psychology: he argues people have a deep need to belong to a “tribe,” and that pandemic messaging exploited that instinct. In his framing, masks became a visible badge of being “one of the good ones,” while slogans like “do it for grandma and grandpa” weaponized empathy. The result, he claims, was social division — and pressure that pushed decent people into harmful behavior. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJTy3oXCzHShsVuJ-zfiGnx96nuR-BNWB WEB: https://slobodnipodcast.hr/2025/06/15/slobodni-podcast-118-mikki-willis-follow-the-silenced/