WOW 🤯 🤯Watch this conformity experiment. Actors stand on a beep, pressuring an unwitting woman to follow… Alone, she continues, then influences newcomers. This shows how senseless rules spread like viruses. THINK FOR YOURSELF.. THINK CRITICALLY… DON’T BE A SHEEP !!!
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Well said, MA.
From an evolutionary perspective, it does make a lot of sense to have a hardwired sense of social conformity, even if that overrides cognition because in primitive times, it would be extraordinarily difficult to survive alone.
And completely agree on a portion of this being learned behavior. Unfortunately, our German-centric western education methodology strongly encourages group think and conformity. Which makes sense given that educational methodology originated during the industrial revolution and the powers that be wanted the citizenry to be good meat robots to man the factories.
Given the horrific political implications of this phenomena, it's something we pedes must always be wary of. It's a very small % of this population that has genuine immunity to these group think pressures.
Same argument can be made in regards to fear but just as is the case with OP's post, once you get beyond a certain level of intellect/thinking ability it only become a greater and greater hindrance and problem(anxiety increasing in prevalence along with IQ underscores this...)
People need to be shown better options, and this always starts with one individual that isn't afraid to stand out...............