S A C and mass hysteria It occurs to me that Stand Alone Complex could be considered a precondition a category including or even synonymous with mass hysteria Thinking on that it occurs to me that S A C may perhaps even long before the series although it has been stated here it originated with the director Kamiyama either have been euphemism for mass hysteria a rhetorical rationalization for the belief in mass hystia or something else along those lines As such there may be previous references to S A C in japanese circles of crypto psychology On the other hand this may be an entirely accidental coincidence Although I think an exploration of the parallels between the two may still be in order either way