“Groupthink,” Irving L. Janis, the Yale psychologist, explained how panels of experts could make colossal mistakes. People on these panels, he said, are forever worrying about their personal relevance and effectiveness, and feel that if they deviate too far from the consensus, they will not be given a serious role. They self-censor personal doubts about the emerging group consensus if they cannot express these doubts in a formal way that conforms with apparent assumptions held by the group.
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We all want to associate ourselves with dignified people and dignified ideas.
Yes I agree, who doesn’t want to be dignified people dignified ideas! But whole problems when people pretend to be dignified but underneath they are rotten. What is mean “beautiful”? I have problems understand this word, I use it all the time but I am not sure I know the meaning. I saw people sing-song” beauty” and they called themselves aesthetics people, living aesthetically; fat ugly people all beautifully vegetated in a cheap whorehouse. Who buys fat ugly whores anyway! Everyone become beauty expert like dog pedicure specialist. Artful studying living artful eating… beyond my style as I am a primitive beast and my beastly idea of art mean feel myself I have never thought about it another way. If the “rotten dignified group” is teaching or religious profession I have definitely angry as I was born into a family who founded a school – a thumb- size primary school- I am deadly proud of my background. Only one thing whole this world make me knelt down this part of my background. In Confucianism, certain professions are reverence. I am living western world from ancient culture, this burdensome old thing deeply ingrained in my backbone and soul. Sometimes I am bewildered by the horrendousness things rape my belief, and I have to compromised myself, but I am flexible enough to suck a bitter taste of shit, tell myself “learning new things”, as my system profound enough to shelter my soul not betray me to wonder off wrong direction. Luckily I can find more enchanting things that are enrich my soul and I can whole heartily engage them to. My attitude is very much my own devise. I can learn from everything from little baby eyes pure expression to my own plume of hands.
Groupthinking dangerous thing, and reading Margaret Singer interesting too. We are living quite scary planet, we developed lots things that are make us entrapment. Good or bad. Mind you I am not a perfect human with angelic nature. Am a human with human faults same as you; nasty wild temperament but also lots of good side too. I am not apologizing who I am. I try not to harm other people as I expect other do same to me. Why people online stalking other people for years? by the way, I have been thinking it is quite terrifying thought being “surrendered dignified people and dignified ideas all the time” O man that would be kill me off, NO NO I rather to be my own music orchid my brushes! Be my own feral tempestuous ridicules ideas if even no one agree with Okey? Ok
Thank you – Thoughtful article!
