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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (8954)	9/2/2009 11:44:03 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

That has been my argument for a few years now: <over time we've all developed a collective Stockholm syndrome, and decided that those governments had every right, and even obligation, to create all those regulations, and we keep begging for more.... :) > The need for identity and tribal affiliation is deep in human DNA though there is a range of it from Orangutan isolationist to chimpanzee aggressive tribalism. Hence the football frenzies with people wanting to back their team. Hence all the group manias which reverberate through the centuries. Ku Klutz Klan meetings which look absurd rather than scary these days. Whole countries caught up with shouting Sieg Heil. People use the Lemming terminology and sheople expression and time after time, away we go again into collective irrational exuberance as though the mere fact of being in a group will somehow make things good. Alan Greenspan was supposed to somehow stop that. Sure, and I can stop a speeding locomotive with a penny on the train tracks. One thing we can be sure of is that people will come up with another collectivist MADness [mutual assured destruction], one after the other. People would rather belong than be right. Patriotism is nothing less than Stockholm Syndrome writ large. Our great problem is that group identity is so helpful that we are stuck with it. Unfortunately, the mob lacks good judgment. Next thing you know, people are strutting around again for all the world as though they invented the idea that "together we are strong" and "God is on our side". ... edit... cool, Lane3 writes the same thing in the next post [in different words] = just like that, groupthink in action. Mqurice