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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
We as a people = humans
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We as a people = blacks
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Humans are very simplistic in our thought processes unless challenged otherwise. Most people will never find out new things on their own. Most people are also threatened by new things that challenge what they've been always told to be true. It's always easily to go with the "conventional wisdom" and agree with everyone else. That's why people who challenge conventional wisdom and new knowledge, based on new and valid information, are met with hostility and often called troublemakers. This is a cultural phenomenon but I guess it can also be biological if it's rooted in the human brain waves or whatever.
It's important to note that not every person or thing that goes against the grain is doing so based on new and valid information. Also, life goes through cycles so there will always be something new to knock the other "new" thing off its pedastol. Every innovator is just like the last innovator.
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Right now, I wanted to open up this discussion to all people. I think most groups have an urgent need to be accepted in their cultural paradigm, however, that may be the wrong thinking in that group, per "groupthink's" definition.
From my reading on the subject matter, I think there may be a biological basis for it. It may be evolutionarily conserved and several animal species exhibit similar behavior, such "herd mentality" and the early psych experiments were with rats.
Do I think it is monogenetic, no. I think it is global brain regulation influenced by past experiences and environment. Many people have reasons for what they do, I just find it rather interesting right now...
There are 2 articles, on in the Seattle PI about the PFO causing migraines and the 60 Minutes' show on the peanut butter mixture that saved severely malnourished kids in Africa.
Groupthink would have never put forth the idea that the heart would have anything to do with the brain. Moreover, groupthink would have never given the peanut butter mixture to kids who were thought unsaveble.
So every group can have "groupthink". It doesn't matter how smart one is.
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