yagami Posted September 5, 2016 Posted September 5, 2016 Im not sure how old this video is or if most people here have seen it but I thought it was worth posting. https://www.facebook.com/anonews.co/videos/1313784798633076/
HasMat Posted September 5, 2016 Posted September 5, 2016 This kind of dull analysis drives me crazy. The utility in following the herd when you are in a state of ignorance is blatantly obvious. I have major social issues because I have a natural inclination to avoid ppl and their slow/incorrect thinking. But even my response in that scenario would be to look for environmental cues to explain what was going on, talk to a person about it, or else follow them if I couldn't resolve it. Now if I walked into a room and everyone was holding a can of coke, and lying dead on the floor, I would avoid holding a can of coke. I wouldn't even know why, I just don't want to share their state. Conversely, if something weird was going on, I would try to emulate the state of those who were safe. This is all rational, albeit subconscious. It drives me crazy when pseudointellectuals take rationality, and shit on it to look smart, and pretend others are inferior when they are not. They try to create these hierarchies based on garbage litmus, thus interfering with ppl actually creating a hierarchy that is sensible. This is why I just prefer to avoid the muggles, because these kinds of dumb divisions work on them.
A4E Posted September 5, 2016 Posted September 5, 2016 It was not interesting for me today. But similar experiments of group pressure was before. I was pretty shocked of some before. Now I have accepted that this is how cultures, religions, clubs, cuIts, sports fans, ideologies, propaganda, social justice, feminism, etc, form. Or at least have a big effect in forming. I have not been free of such group pressure either in my life. It is a powerful force that many seek to abuse offline and online. But perhaps more surprising as demonstrated here, is that many are unbeknownst spreading the behaviours. For example, this is why it is effective to start propaganda about Trump on a TV channel.
neeeel Posted September 5, 2016 Posted September 5, 2016 It also happens here(as in, FDR), but probably to a lesser extent
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