Posted on 10/13/2013 3:40:00 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Neanderthals and Narcissists in the age of incoherence.
”Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.” (Source: Wikipedia)
One of the stark ironies in this age of incoherence is the clash between post-modern presuppositions, and reality. For example, the prevailing presupposition appears to be: we can print money endlessly, spend this fiat currency without restraint, and pretend prosperity without fear of consequence. And then there’s reality.
Another example: Democrats think and act in lock step but insist they are the most diverse and free thinking group in the country. Republicans are much more diverse and less likely to march in conformity, but they are frequently cast as worker bees. The real worker bees, socialists who dominate the Democrat Party, they pack a more powerful political punch thanks to uniformity, even if it costs them freedom of thought, enmeshed as they are in a steel web of political correctness, another term for groupthink. Democrats are not alone. RINOs are as muddled and self-satisfied with groupthink as goose-stepping Democrats. Ironic and hilarious to realize that the people who consider themselves “progressive” and “non-conformist”, have progressed little since high school, trapped as they are in a conformist tyranny of their own making.
According to the definition of groupthink above, consensus is the goal, not critical thinking, and yet these unthinking conformists routinely accuse the opposition of being anti-intellectual robots. The tyranny of “cool” requires they support consensus even in the face of contrary evidence, even at the risk of looking idiotic.
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THe Dems and the Rinos are so steeped in pleasing one another they are living at evil's beck and call. The liberals? Give me a break--they are the handmaiden and the Rinos puppets of the evil master.
The eternal conflict between the individualist and the collectivist.
I will engage this on a another day when I am more compus mentus.
Collectivists are the spawn of Mr. Stitch himself.
Are you Howard Roark?
I tried VERY HARD to read this trip THRICE.
Typical collectivist academician, the piece confuses with semantics, solves nothing, and then concludes that his opinion MUST be correct, because no one else slammed it.
Like a drunk who makes perfect sense to himself, and then blames you for being too stupid to understand the brilliance of his though process.
I’ll address this nonsense tomorrow. Right now, I am tire of Gordian Knots.
Have a good night.
LOL
If only I could be so smart.
I am just an uneducated, unsophisticated, unschooled farmer from the backwash of Pennsylvania.
Have never ventured out, have no idea what the world beyond the Keystone state offers. Truthfully, been to biker parties in Ohio, WV, Indiana and NY. That about covers it.
But I DO know how to read. And that makes all the difference.
About 10 years ago, some reporter coined the phase, “Red Necks with books, why you should be concerned, they’re a dangerous sort.”
Long answer to a short question. Sorry.
I’m thinking that the ‘rats are just Zombies.
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