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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (9726)1/25/2006 11:12:38 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541562
 
Groupthink is probably very adaptive when you are defending yourself on some lonely plain from another clan that wants to kill yours and take all your stuff. Unfortunately high civilization, and our adaptations that predate heightened, civilization don't mesh. I'm not sure what you do about it. I think a lot of this is bred in the bone. You're either rational, or your not. And the or nots frequently win out- because they are so loud, and so sure.

Groupthink is often rewarded- even in our culture. Who wants to be called a traitor, or a Davidian, just for seeing things differently? And how many people are willing to call someone a traitor based on a different POV, and how many people step up to call that irrational namecalling wrong? Well, I think we know the answer.
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