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RosieG

The advatange of belonging to an ideological group is that you never have to think.You're told what to think/say, whom to hate. Great?

Posted - December 2, 2016
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  • People love political parties and platforms.  Yes they do. 
      December 2, 2016 6:02 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Why? What benefit is there to GROUPTHINK Glis? To society? Thank you for your reply! :)
      December 3, 2016 3:24 AM MST
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  • That would depend on whether you're a participant or a spectator. Some people promote ideas and policies, some do not.
      December 2, 2016 1:18 PM MST
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  • 113301
    If you are a spectator you are indifferent. You are on the sidelines watching the show and make no contribution. You don't vote . You don't engage. You don't say anything. When you speak you become a target for those who disagree and some folks do NOT want that in their lives. If you DO participate and that participation is limited to GROUPTHINK then you cede any responsibility for anything. You do as you're told. You think what you are told to think. You act as you are told to act. You say what you are told to say. The zillion PET surrogates during the campaign all talked from the exact same script. They are puppets. Those who participate independently think independently and they don't let anyone set the guidelines for anything. They figure that out for themselves. Guess which folks I think are the real contributors? Thank you for your reply Didge! :) This post was edited by RosieG at December 3, 2016 11:31 AM MST
      December 3, 2016 3:29 AM MST
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  • I can see I'm going to like you, Rosie G.

    I worked with a couple of Japanese companies for about 12 years and they are the world leaders of groupthink. Nice people. Polite, funny, and I enjoyed working with them, but less inclined to individuality than we who live in the West.
      December 3, 2016 11:33 AM MST
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  • 113301
    I ALREADY like you m'dear. There is much safety in groupthink. No one stands out. They all become one entity and there is safety in numbers or so we are told. I wonder how badly PET will insult the Japanese. There are certain definite protocols of which one must be aware and PET seems obdurate about learning about other cultures and what is appropriate and what is not. The ride ahead is fraught with peril. Are you buckled up? Thank you for your reply Didge and Happy Sunday! :)
      December 4, 2016 4:15 AM MST
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  • 3934

    Well, that's not strictly true.

    If one is devoted to an ideology-based political movement, one still has to figure out who the other members are, what the accepted membership signals are, what topics are acceptable to bring up within the group ("Oh, we don't talk about Obama being a Kenyan anymore? But it's OK to say Syrian refugees are terrorists?") and so forth.

    Now, as it turns out, human beings are very good at this sort of cognition. For most of our evolutionary history, our survival and reproduction was FAR more dependent upon our ability to maintain good standing within our social group (i.e. our hunter-gatherer tribe) than on our ability to reason correctly about empirical reality. So our brains are much more adapted to social group dynamics than abstract Type 2 cognition.

    It's not fair to say ideology-based group identity means not having to think. It is somewhat fair to say it means exerting much less effort to think, because that mode of thinking is something which comes easily to us.

      December 3, 2016 11:51 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Mahalo for your reply OS.
      December 4, 2016 4:16 AM MST
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