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ScienceDaily -- Is there a dark side to moving in sync?
'Moving in harmony can make people feel more connected to one another and, as a result, lead to positive collective action. -- Wiltermuth, an expert on group dynamics, says the findings are the first to indicate that synchronous activities may be used to influence leader-follower relations and are especially pertinent, as synchronized action like marching and chanting are still used in political and religious rallies to influence people throughout the world. Wiltermuth notes, "The findings suggest that synchrony cannot only be used for good, but also as a tool to promote evil."'
psychology  groups  conformity  trance  herd 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Scientists find they can control how people react to group pressure
'Volunteers whose posterior medial frontal cortex, an area in the middle of the brain that is associated with reward processing, were exposed to the magnetic pulses suffered reduced levels of conformity. The researchers believe this part of the brain dates back a long way in the evolution of animals and is responsible or automatically "correcting" our performance when we fall out of line with a group. They say that by suspending this mechanism, it allows people to think and behave differently. They now believe it may be possible to develop drugs or behaviour changing techniques that could increase or decrease people's conformity. "Right now we can search for behavioural techniques that modulate activity of the posterior medial frontal cortex without any physical intervention. Hopefully, with help of these techniques someone would be able to partly immune themselves to 'group pressure'." -- Monkey see; Monkey wear pulsating tinfoil hat.
psychology  peerpressure  conformity  herd  from delicious
september 2011 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1295 The Rise of Corruption Part 3 - Avoiding Self-Knowledge (MP3)
"The only knowledge we avoid is self-knowledge. Everybody already knows. When you say the state is violence, everybody already knows it. The reason we know that everybody knows it is the speed at which they get upset. If they didn't already know the implications, they wouldn't get upset. Statism is violence; there is no 'God'. You have to work hard to avoid that knowledge because it's so obvious. So what are they avoiding? They are avoiding self-knowledge: knowledge they already possess about themselves, about society, about their friends and family, about truth, about virtue, about integrity, about courage. All of these things. So when you speak an idea and people get upset, the knowledge that they are avoiding is not what you're saying but what they already know. They are reacting not to you but to themselves. If you have to conform to other people's bigotries or face attack and rejection – that's not a relationship – it's a cult. And everybody knows that."
statism  government  religion  cults  conformity  humiliation  avoidance  emotionalintelligence  discourse  philosophy  StefanMolyneux  argumentation  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
A World Beyond Borders -- Character Assassination of Julian Assange
'Much of what passes for valid knowledge becomes simply the individual’s unconscious acceptance of the dominant view. Knowledge generated and indoctrinated into each individual now becomes the moral compass that guides their actions. In the age prior to the time of ubiquitous internet communication, the gate was tightly governed. It was like the eye of a needle that very few could get through to participate in unfolding perception. What those in power absolutely fear is a collapse of the projections that guard the system of expert knowledge, which has replaced individual capacity to listen to ones own conscience. They are afraid of people marching side by side with those individuals who refuse to carry the given script and instead create their own and walk through the gate of the future on their own terms. What WikiLeaks has done is lifted up the perception of the masses that up to now has been governed by illegitimate authority of ‘expert’ knowledge.'
cognitivesurplus  internet  leaky  wikileaks  journalism  complianceprofessionals  forcedmemes  conformity  consensus  consensusreality  duckspeak  slavespeak  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
Direct Reference -- The Display Aspect of Social Functionality
'...social functionality operate within a space defined by the following three dimensions. #Knowledge: We use this stuff to learn. Specifically, we use it to learn from each other. For example, user reviews or Wikipedia. #Connection: We use this stuff to communicate, bond, meet, define affiliations and dislikes or just hang out where the people are. For example, friending... #Display: We use this stuff to communicate and manage presentations of ourselves, truthfully or not, to others. For example, user profiles or Flickr. No piece of social functionality is all one and none of the others, but they tend to be weighted differently in each case. Display often motivates contributions (and impacts the type of contributions) made via Knowledge and Connection functionality. ...it's crucially important for motivating contribution and can actually stabilize and help self-regulate systems of social functionality. ...the three Display dimensions: Status, Reputation and Esteem – form a continuum.'
design  socialdesign  ux  motivation  performance  status  reputation  conformity  retribalization  panarchy  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- Area Woman Prefers To Get Same Advice From As Many People As Possible
'"Calling on those close to me to endlessly reconfirm my worldview makes coming to conclusions that much easier." Lim added that on the occasions when she does encounter someone with a conflicting take, she is quickly reassured by her real friends that Laura is a total bitch.'
TheOnion  conformity  groupthink  herd  satire  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'Social scientists have been puzzled by Milgram's experiments, wondering why people were so easily talked into inflicting pain so gratuitously. The real explanation is that, by joining a group – the "university experiment" – they switched into their social alters and merged with their own sadistic internalized persecutor, which was quite willing to take responsibility for ordering pain inflicted upon others. Their "struggle with themselves" over whether to obey was really a struggle between their social alters and their main selves. The crucial element was the existence of the group-as-terrifying-parent, the all-powerful university. Those who continue to replicate Milgram's experiments and who are still puzzled as to why "the most banal and superficial of rationales is enough to produce destructive behavior in human beings" simply underestimate the amount of trauma most people have experienced and the effectiveness of the social trance in allowing them to restage these hurts.'
psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  reenactment  projection  conformity  violence  repetitioncompulsion  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'...children whose immature parents use them for their own emotional needs, and who reject them when the child's needs do not reflect their own, develop a "false self," or even multiple selves, which may conform to society but cannot improve upon it. ...social evolution depends upon the evolution of the viable self, which in turn is achieved solely through the slow and uneven evolution of childrearing. Traumas are defined as injuries to the private self, rather than just painful experiences, since non-painful injuries to the self such as parental genital manipulation or being told by a parent that they wished one would die are more traumatic to the self than, say, more painful accidents. Without a well-developed, enduring private self, people feel threatened by all progress, all freedom, all new challenges, and then experience annihilation anxiety, fears that the fragile self is disintegrating, since situations that call for self-assertion trigger memories of maternal abandonment.'
psychohistory  psychology  parenting  narcissism  childhood  abuse  trauma  falseself  growthanxiety  selfattack  conformity  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Adam Curtis Blog -- FROM PIGEON TO SUPERMAN AND BACK AGAIN
'The idea of "nudging" citizens to do the right thing sounds cute. But in reality it marks the return of a powerful psycho-political theory that rose up in the mid-20th century. It was called Behaviourism. ...who decides what is "good" behaviour, and what happens when others decide it is bad[?] These are questions that the Nudge enthusiasts seem to be blithely unaware of. ...the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally – the machines we have built. The computers. In our age of individualism we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours. And from that they can predict what choices and decisions we will make. And they do it solely through our observed behaviour.'
statism  government  behaviorism  paternalism  nudge  mindcontrol  socialengineering  technoutopianism  technocracy  abravenewworld  quantifiedself  demographics  psychographics  class  reflexivity  theadvertisedlife  conformity  hierarchy  thegamingofeverydaylife  rewards  soma  documentaries  AdamCurtis  psychology  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
The Wall Street Journal Online -- Rapleaf: Cracking the Code
SELECT email FROM datamine WHERE conformist = TRUE
advertising  datamining  conformity  via:diemkay  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Listener Emails: Loneliness, Hatred, Reason, Revolution
"The shape of political authority in society mirrors that of the family. When you have better families you end up with better governments. When you have non-authoritarian, pacificist parenting with respect for the self-ownership of children, you will inevitably end up with a free society. If you want to change society, you have to change people's early childhood experiences. Objective morality, property rights and self-ownership all fall counter to just about everybody's experience of their family and certainly against their experience of church and school. So we're fighting a real uphill battle, it's one that we'll win, but it's going to take a long time."
family  parenting  relationships  authority  society  democracy  herd  conformity  stockholmsyndrome  ethics  morality  philosophy  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #72 Bullies and Victims: The Aftermath of Culture (MP3)
Gisted -- All of the evil, corruption and predation in the world follows from the moment when this invisible apple is offered that you are told you must believe in or die (or be condemned at the very least). If you get a sense of the agony the world is in at the right now then you get a sense of the horror of this moment of ultimate betrayal and soul murder that inevitably pushes people into becoming either sadistic, amoral, exploitative abusers; or masochistic, compliant, passive-aggressive victims. Either way, abuse or victimhood is made into an absolute so that you can avoid the pain of knowing that people chose to hurt you when they could have chosen otherwise and to repress the pain of acknowledging that your sole means of survival, your capacity to understand things rationality, was under direct attack by those who claimed to love you. But that pain still exists in the world and whatever we don't permit ourselves to feel we end up causing other people to feel ten times over.
abuse  conformity  culture  falseself  selfattack  sadism  masochism  repression  emotionalintelligence  psychology  philosophy  StefanMolyneux  *  childhood  irrationality  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #71 Culture: How to Enslave a Human Soul (MP3)
Gisted -- "Culture is the exact opposite of what is real and what is true." Because of its desire for virtue, the true-self is corrupted into obedience by the miming of the eating of the invisible apple, and the reward that's given to this shattered true-self is a substitute false-self which is what we call culture. Culture is always a lie. And the big lie is always believed more than the little lie. Once you can get somebody to place their identity in a collective falsehood, you've got them for life. There's no way back to your true-self once your self-aggrandizing false-self is the substitute source of your self-esteem. There's a famous line from Hanns Johst's play Schlageter: ‘When I hear "culture,” I release the safety catch on my gun!’ That line resonates because it's true. When you can get people to believe false things and to obey bullies, then they are ready to participate in the brutality of the collective and to be a soldier of evil in the world.
evil  falseself  lies  concepts  culture  conformity  herd  violence  StefanMolyneux  irrationality  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
New Scientist -- Did emotions evolve to push others into cooperation?
'The next time you feel angry at a friend who has let you down, or grateful toward one whose generosity has surprised you, consider this: you may really be bargaining for better treatment from that person in the future. According to a controversial new theory, our emotions have evolved as tools to manipulate others into cooperating with us. -- You get angry not when someone hurts you, but when their actions betray a setting of their cooperation dial that is lower than you expect, and your anger is both a threat to turn down your own dial and an inducement to them to turn theirs up. You show gratitude not when someone benefits you, but when their dial is set higher than you expect, and this signals that you plan to turn yours up in response.'
evolutionarypsychology  psychology  emotion  transactionalanalysis  signalling  communication  negotiation  cooperation  conformity  ostracism  status  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Sheeple
'Sheeple (a portmanteau of "sheep" and "people") is a term of disparagement, in which people are likened to sheep. It is often used to denote persons who voluntarily acquiesce to a perceived authority or suggestion without sufficient research to understand fully the ramifications involved in that decision, and thus undermine their own human individuality or in other cases give up certain rights. The implication of sheeple is that as a collective, people believe or do whatever they are told, especially if told so by a perceived authority figure believed to be trustworthy, without critically thinking about it or doing adequate research to be sure that it is an accurate representation of the real world around them. The term is generally used in a political and sometimes in a spiritual sense.'
groupthink  conformity  herd 
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Altruism’s Bloody Roots
'“The selfish gain on the altruistic, but once in a while, the groups composed of selfish guys get clobbered in competition with groups that have altruistic individuals.” Asked whether the willingness to participate in battle might be taken for fear of within-group punishment, Bowles said that merely “displaced the question.” “I might hope that someone would punish you, but why should I do it? You might hit back. The idea that I can exert order on you presupposes the idea that someone is altruistic.”' -- Survival of the witness. (My public selflessness is self-interested since it enhances my social status; my private selflessness is self-interested since it enhances my self-esteem.)
anthropology  evolutionarypsychology  psychology  behaviours  groups  status  selfesteem  cooperation  altruism  conformity  ostracism  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- How (Not) to Achieve Freedom (PDF)
'If we lose the ability to project our negative traits onto some other person or entity, we actually experience the anxiety, fear and rage within ourselves. The growth of psychological and emotional maturity is the slow and often painful process of withdrawing your projections from the world so that you can see what the world actually is. Most people wander around the world with highly reflective sunglasses on – but pointing the wrong way – so that they are only seeing a distorted reflection of themselves, rather than the world itself. When a man hears that taxation is force, his unconscious hears all of the implications contained in that statement immediately, at light speed, and leaps into action to protect him from being tortured and killed. The hostility that he feels will arise in him as if out of nowhere. You have also provoked a feeling of humiliation in him, by creating fear and anxiety within him that he has to avoid.'
criticism  statism  intellectualism  elitism  vanity  entitlement  libertarianism  doublethink  goodthink  consensusreality  conformity  hypocrisy  delusion  projection  psychology  philosophy  freedom  StefanMolyneux  pdf  from delicious
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1527 Conformists Can't Understand DROs and Anarchism (MP3)
Gisted -- You can't understand how a stateless society will work if you've never stood up to a social group; if you've never stood up for what is right in the face of what is socially accepted. But if you *have* stood up, you totally get how powerful social ostracism and non-violent methods are in enforcing social norms. One of the ways we really understand how society works is to act against its prejudices. And through that process we experience first hand the power of social cohesion, of social exclusion, of social ostracism, of disapproval, of criticism, of negativity, etc. And once you've understood how incredibly powerful social ostracism is as a form of social organisation, then you're pretty comfortable with the idea that it can run society.'
philosophy  anarchism  voluntaryism  disputeresolution  reputation  contempt  ostracism  conformity  StefanMolyneux 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- The Alex Jones Show: Alan Watt Talks About Fabian Technocracy and America's Endgame 6/8
Watts on televisual magick: "It's a war *of* terror, not on terror. There's so many TV series out now on terrorism and government agencies dealing with it all, but people are lapping that stuff up, they can't tell fact from fiction any more. They see the guys in the streets with combat boots and that's all quite normal to them now. What happens is, you get into a state of flux – they call it flux 'at the top' – where you can't rationalise reality and separate it from fiction using your own perceptions to ask yourself, 'Am I really under attack right now, or is it all in my head?' But all the symbols they're giving you say, 'I'm under attack! I'm under attack! Comply! Obey!'
militaryentertainmentcomplex  predictiveprogramming  realityprogramming  magick  MK  mindcontrol  psychosis  delusion  fear  conformity 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- The Alex Jones Show: Alan Watt Talks About Fabian Technocracy and America's Endgame 5/8
Watts on the sheeple: "They wouldn't even know they were helpless, but they would be very 'happy'. Most people cannot think for themselves, they live in Plato's Cave, they can only parrot what each one parrots from the media. And because they can parrot all the same things, they think they're sane."
mindcontrol  herd  groupthink  duckspeak  conformity  consensusreality  irrationality 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
BetterMe
'Send private, anonymous feedback to coworkers, classmates, and friends. Open, honest communication is crucial, but not always easy. Go ahead... say what you really think.' -- MakeMeJustLikeYou
sousveillance  feedback  socialengineering  politicalcorrectness  goodthink  conformity  griefing  tools 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- Global Warming Skeptics Growing In Numbers
'Since 2008, the number of people who don't believe in global warming has doubled to 16 percent. What do you think? -- Brian Fouts, Bid Assessor: "Probably most guys could just use another week or so to reconcile the inconsistencies of recent individual findings with the broader scientific consensus."'
TheOnion  consensus  duckspeak  conformity  lulz  satire 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Rock, Paper, Shotgun -- This Hunger For Reality”
RE: Jesse Schell, speaking at DICE 2010 -- Comment: Zaphid: "...there is no greater evil than the greater good.." -- Jim Reaper: "Don’t worry, Schell’s vision of the future won’t come to pass. People instantly dislike being puppets when they can see the strings." -- Uhm: "Gamers know as well as anyone that we like to watch numbers go up." -- always_black: "People ‘play’ because the results *don’t* matter, that’s why it’s ‘playing’ instead of, you know, doing stuff. When the play becomes doing stuff then it isn’t play anymore and it’s just earning a different kind of money." -- Jeremy: "He seems way too excited about the casual brainwashing of our species for money." -- Taillefer: "I’d pay somebody in China to earn my life points for me." -- Tom Camfield: "...one thing he definitely gets wrong: there’ll be far more competition between providers than he outlines; you’ll earn points for drinking Dr Pepper while simultaneously losing insurance points... "
thegamingofeverydaylife  achievements  rewards  incentives  nudge  conformity  puppetry  grinding  addiction  gaming  advertising  ethics 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- The Truth About Political Correctness
'Here are issues that we would argue ARE politically correct: [*A long list*] -- We've listed the above areas of "political correctness" only to prove what regular readers of the Bell already have guessed: that our impression of political correctness (in the 21st century anyway) has to do with being careful not to contradict the dominant social themes of the power elite! Throughout the 20th century, and into the 21st, power elite promotions were so powerful, threatening and effective, that people - businesses, too, and, of course, government - carefully self censored, even when they could not explain how and why they came to their self-censoring determinations. This was the ultimate triumph of elite promotional memes - they exercised an iron-clad hold over people's imaginations and internal life. Yet of course it would be the Bell's argument that all of that may be changing now as the Internet-driven conversation continues to rapidly expand.'
discourse  politicalcorrectness  fabianism  statism  socialism  oligarchy  propaganda  consensusreality  mindcontrol  conformity  thoughtpolice  goodthink 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
G4tv.com -- DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos
"We live in a bubble of fake bullshit." -- Ergo we must build an even bigger bubble of authentic bullshit.
*  thegamingofeverydaylife  hyperreality  gaming  psychology  collecting  loyalty  performance  incentives  achievements  rewards  experiencepoints  numbers  nudge  surveillance  sousveillance  socialengineering  ludotopianism  ludocapitalism  conformity  bravenewworld  idiocracy  attention  advertising  grinding  subsistenceclicking  theadvertisedlife 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
The Observer -- My bright idea: Jaron Lanier
Lanier: "Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. Initially people aren't sure what the pack is. Somebody tries to ridicule something else, and other people who want to play it safe join in so that they're not the target. Gradually, the pack forms. You can tell it's formed by two things: an internal enemy and an external enemy. The internal enemy is the low person on the totem pole who gets ridiculed. And then there's the external enemy, the "other"." -- Krotoski: "We see this in playgrounds, we see this pack mentality in other, non-web environments. -- Lanier: "That's because it comes from the people, not from the machine."
criticism  internet  web  cyberspsychology  socialsoftware  socialdesign  socialmedia  socialnetworking  groups  behaviours  smartmobs  dumbmobs  commonenemy  status  hierarchy  conformity  consensus  JaronLanier 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Are Video Games Evil? by Chris Suellentrop
'... video game players are more likely than nongamers to consider themselves knowledgeable, even expert, in their fields. They are more likely to want pay for performance in the workplace rather than a flat scale... -- Brooks summarized the love-the-power worldview of the Organization Kid like this: “There is a fundamental order to the universe, and it works. If you play by its rules and defer to its requirements, you will lead a pretty fantastic life.” That’s a winner’s ideology: Follow orders, and you’ll be just fine. -- [The structure of] video games teaches players that the best course of action is always to accept the system and work to succeed within it. “Games do not permit innovation,” Koster writes. “They present a pattern. Innovating out of a pattern is by definition outside the magic circle. You don’t get to change the physics of a game.” Nor, when a computer is the referee, do you get to challenge the rules or to argue about their merits.'
thegamingofeverydaylife  gaming  simulation  opacity  conformity 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN MISJUDGMENT By Charlie Munger - Speech at Harvard Law School (1995)
'#This is a superpower in error-causing psychological tendency: bias from consistency and commitment tendency, including the tendency to avoid or promptly resolve cognitive dissonance. Includes the self-confirmation tendency of all conclusions, particularly expressed conclusions, and with a special persistence for conclusions that are hard-won: It's very important to not put your brain in chains too young by what you shout out. #Bias from deprival super-reaction syndrome, including bias caused by present or threatened scarcity, including threatened removal of something almost possessed, but never possessed: People do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. #Bias from liking distortion, including the tendency to especially like oneself, one's own kind and one's own idea structures, and the tendency to be especially susceptible to being misled by someone liked: Once you realize that you can't really buy your thinking you have learned a lesson that's very useful in life.'
economics  psychology  thinking  heuristics  bias  reciprocity  socialproof  conformity  groupthink  gambling  intermittentvariablerewards  sunkcosts  irrationality 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
RWW -- The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul
'...picture our perspective leaving our own experiences, zooming out and up until we can see how all the different groups are interacting on a worldwide social network. That bird's-eye view could be both beautiful and horrible if the resolution was clear enough. ...the next stage of innovation online may be services like recommendations, self and group awareness...' -- Warden: "Nobody thinks about how much valuable information they're generating just by friending people and fanning pages. It's like we're constantly voting in a hundred different ways every day. And I'm a starry-eyed believer that we'll be able to change the world for the better using that neglected information. It's like an x-ray for the whole country - we can see all sorts of hidden details of who we're friends with, where we live, what we like."' -- Here be dragons.
facebook  socialgraph  datamining  groupthink  conformity  homogeneity  deindividuation  pandorasbox 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Rory Sutherland's Blog -- And do people in the Advertising Industry understand brands?
Maximisers (cooltards incl. ad folks) vs Satisficers ('the rest of us') -- Satisficers: 'For those people, good enough generally is. Most important of all, they are not using their brand choices to compete with their fellow man, or to draw distinctions between them and their peer-group. They are using them to fit in. To conform, not to outdo. It's safe, after all. Because what you are driven by is not the idea of choice optimisation, but the much more powerful idea of risk aversion. By fitting in, you may not have the best musical taste in the world, or eat the best food, or drive the best car - but you won't go far wrong either. And, when making a puchase, what most people want, most of the time, is not the best they can buy: they want something that's very unlikely to be crap. -- Regret is a huge emotion, and people will pay huge sums to avoid it. And the avoidance of possible regret is a much bigger factor in brand selection than the pursuit of perfection.'
economics  praxeology  decisions  risk  loss  regret  conformity  marketing  criticaldistance  RorySutherland 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
PBS FRONTLINE -- Digital Nation: Interviews: Sherry Turkle (1)
'We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made. The economy isn't going right; there's global warming. In times like that, people imagine science and technology will be able to get it right. Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. -- I think when you have a generation that doesn't see simulation as second best, doesn't know what's behind simulation and the programming that goes into simulation, but just takes simulation at interface value, you really have a set up for a very problematic political, among other things, set of issues. ...things are built out of simple programs to more complex programs, and these programs are cultural creations, cultural constructions... Education has dropped that out of the curriculum. -- We're becoming quite intolerant of letting each other think complicated things.'
technology  temes  hyperreality  simulacra  simulation  culture  opacity  hegemony  goodthink  conformity  SherryTurkle 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Spiked -- Free speech on campus? Yes. A free ride? No
'If a student at a British university starts believing that some radical form of Islam is ‘the Truth’, it is most likely as a result of this intellectual cowardice rather than the strength of conviction of some visiting preacher. It is the climate of non-debate, of listening and nodding along to everyone, that can make things seem like the Truth by default. This creation of a relativistic mishmash of equally valid views sells students short as surely as does the outright censorship of ‘extremists’: it, too, creates a climate of conformism and question-avoidance, where the extremists are allowed to speak but only because ‘everyone must be heard and treated with respect’. '
education  relativism  conformity  goodthink 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
The Archdruid Report -- Secret Handshakes
'Another outside factor not often remembered these days was the impact of the political prosecutions that broke out at intervals in 20th century America. Belonging to a group that was, or was merely accused of being, a front for a proscribed political movement too often had serious social, economic, and legal consequences during those outbreaks, and the gyrations of American cultural politics made it impossible to define much of any ground as safe. [Socialist, communist, fascist witchhunts and accusations.] -- That’s one of the factors that helped drive the anxious conformity and social detachment of the 1950s; the perceived risks of belonging to anything outside of work, and maybe a recreational association or two, were simply too high for many people.'
communities  ideology  statism  conformity  sociology  JohnMichaelGreer 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- 20. The State and Sports: Why the state loooves to subsidize sports (MP3)
"The underlying message of allegiance to a sports team is that it's the abstract concept called the team that you should have allegiance to; not how well it does (not how well the government manages things), not who's in it (not who happens to have gotten elected), not who the coach is (not who the president or prime minister is); but just your allegiance. And why should you have allegiance? Because you happened to have been born there? -- It's not uncommon for people who have a strong allegiance to a sports team to also be strongly patriotic... -- Every ounce of emotional energy that you put into irrational localised allegiance towards abstract concepts that you have no control over: the state, a god, or some sports team; is emotional energy that is distinctly not available to you to be a moral person."
statism  nationalism  patriotism  religion  teams  groups  groupthink  conformity  StefanMolyneux  irrationality 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- TED: Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man (Comments)
Comment: JoeTFriday: 'The slave master's dream: Convince the slaves that it is the intangibles like the master's smile and the preacher's promise that constitute the real values in life. Now the state will take over where the slave master left off after being so rudely interrupted by Enlightenment thought. Get used to postmodern subjectivism as the ruling paradigm. There's a world of intangible wealth out there for your enjoyment. The state will use the TANGIBLE goods in your best interest, thank you very much.' -- Reply comment: vidyo555: 'RIGHT ON'
statism  ideology  relativism  marketing  advertising  rhetoric  persuasion  propaganda  conformity  coercion  violence  ethics  morality  irrationality 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
LiberaLaw -- Can a Libertarian Also Be a [Marketeer]?
'The marketeer will often resist interference with the current distribution of property rights in a given society, whatever its origin; but the libertarian will be much more likely to favor potentially radical measures designed to rectify past injustices. In addition, the libertarian has no particular reason to endorse the marketeer’s moralizing about market conditions; and the libertarian who [holds] the libertarian ideal ... will surely want to emphasize that some economic conditions [authority/hierarchy/tradition/culture/conformity/etc] that do not involve the misuse of force are nonetheless objectionable because they minimize freedom and reduce people’s effective capacities for responsible action. The libertarian will sometimes find the marketeer a useful ally; but the libertarian should not, I think, want to be a marketeer except when being a marketeer does not involve accepting naïve beliefs about the origin or dynamics of actually existing markets.'
*  markets  marketing  advertising  rhetoric  persuasion  propaganda  conformity  coercion  violence  ethics  morality  freedom  libertarianism 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Spiked -- The right to privacy in the Age of Facebook
'Seligman argues that there is a fundamental difference between *trust in people* (interpersonal relationships) and *confidence in institutions*. (The same would apply to technological systems, though this is not Seligman’s focus.) -- This goes to the heart of what trust actually is: a relationship that is not based upon reciprocal calculation, but is open-ended. Trust is therefore a very rare thing indeed. And because it is based on free will, trust cannot be demanded, only offered and accepted. -- Our relationships with state institutions are based upon confidence rather than trust: roles are ascribed while outcomes are intended and expected. There is neither unconditionality nor active engagement, but a passive relationship based on prescribed roles that are not subject to change or control. -- The defence of privacy as a political right needs to be re-established... Individuated conformity is not the basis upon which a robust defence of privacy can be mounted.'
sociology  socialnetworking  panopticon  conformity  privacy  trust  freedom 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Disorder deficit disorder
psychology  psychopathology  thoughtcrime  conformity  control 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain -- The Logic of Personal and Political Freedom: Why People Reject Freedom
'It is my strong belief, based on considerable experience with children, that we are born strong, secure, confident and empathetic. It takes a fierce effort to destroy the natural strength of children. [P]arents teach their children [...] nonsense. -- The moment you lie to someone, you become both their slave and their master. You are their slave, because you are terrified of being discovered—and you are their master, because you must control their perceptions. You must destroy their curiosity. You must respond to any approach to your falsehoods with irritation, condemnation and withdrawal. The energizing question ‘why’ becomes your implacable enemy. You must undermine their capacity to reason, to think for themselves. You must overcomplicate the world. And most of all—most of all—you must become the sworn enemy of all principles, even the most innocuous. The only ‘rules’ you can allow are base commandments, such as ‘respect your elders’, ‘love your country’ and so on.'
*  psychology  family  status  vanity  parenting  children  abuse  lies  hypocrisy  authority  conformity  mindcontrol  corruption  violence  passivity  passiveaggression  emotionalintelligence  morality  liberty  freedom  philosophy  StefanMolyneux  childhood  irrationality 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Spiked -- The search for green meaning
'Seizing on climate change as an issue around which they can create the appearance of purposeful activity, it is political elites who are the most zealous campaigners, ...the government urges us to urge them to act. At the same time, it also berates us for our apathy. Such is the bizarre relationship between the elite and the electorate today. ...putting pressure on world leaders is really an elite wish-fulfilment fantasy, in which child-citizens across the globe put their faith in parent-politicians engaged in an heroic, planet-saving mission. Climate activists may think they are critics of officialdom, but they are simply fuelling the fantasy. -- It seems unlikely that, in the long run, the elite’s search for meaning in green politics will be successful. The vision it offers – of caution and constraint, low ambition and no progress – is a negative, dystopian one which may evoke fear and conformity, but which will never inspire. It is the ideology of a demoralised society...'
climate  politics  statism  government  opportunism  paternalism  memes  fear  dystopia  inevitablism  fatalism  falseconsciousness  consensusreality  herd  hysteria  usefulidiot  conformity  cults 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Spiked -- What’s liberal about booing off Johnny Ball?
'...booing someone for questioning what has become a debate-strangling, genuflect-demanding orthodoxy ... Tuesday night’s Ball incident confirms that the real religiosity that governs society today - far more successfully and suffocatingly than the Catholic Church (collapsing) or the CofE (collapsed) or the religious right (bogeyman) - is the religiosity of climate change, attended and promoted not by smock-wearing God-squadders but by corduroy-sporting God-doubters. ...the labelling of anyone who questions the politics, the science or the consequences (less development, more mud huts) of climate-change alarmism as a ‘DENIER’ springs straight from The Inquisition, when those who questioned the Bible were similarly branded with the D-word. It’s a very weird atheistic rationalism which borrows so liberally from the illiberalism of religious tyranny.'
climate  cults  illiberalism  fanaticism  goodthink  bellyfeel  conformity  authoritarianism  tyranny 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath
'The fact that many readers have automatically conflated the word “sociopath” with “evil” in fact reflects the demonizing tendencies of loser/clueless group morality. The characteristic of these group moralities is automatic distrust of alternative individual moralities. The clueless are not capable of much compassion, unless they can very strongly identify with the person. ...the clueless and losers often externalize their moral sense, into some sort of collectively (and ritually) adopted code, thereby abdicating responsibility for the moral dimension of their actions entirely. You don’t have to think about the morality of what you do if you can just appeal to some code (religious texts are the main kind...). The morality that they defer to is always a codified communal version of the views of some charismatic sociopath, but it is the abdication of responsibility, as a group, by the clueless and losers, that amplifies the impact of both the Hitlers and Gandhis of the world.'
*  psychology  sociopathy  morality  individualism  groups  groupthink  herd  conformity  consensus  cults  religion  projection  responsibility  bellyfeel  thegervaisprinciple  transactionalanalysis  status  communication 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath
'The Sociopath's private morality is not, in their view, a matter for external democratic judgment. Sociopaths can be compassionate because their distrust only extends to groups. They are capable of understanding and empathizing with individual pain and acting with compassion. A sociopath who sets out to be compassionate is strongly limited by two factors: the distrust of groups (and therefore skepticism and distrust of large-scale, organized compassion), and the firm grounding in reality. The second factor allows sociopaths to look unsentimentally at all aspects of reality, including the fact that apparently compassionate actions that make you “feel good” and assuage guilt today may have unintended consequences that actually create more evil in the long term. This is what makes even good sociopaths often seem callous to even those among the clueless and losers who trust the sociopath’s intentions. The apparent callousness is actually evidence that hard moral choices are being made.'
*  psychology  sociopathy  morality  individualism  groupthink  herd  conformity  consensus  realism  ethics  thegervaisprinciple  transactionalanalysis  status  communication 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- MIND CONTROL MADE EASY! Become a Cult Leader Today!
'Tired of trying to be a prophet, avatar or visionary but can't get anyone to blindly follow you? Have you always wanted to know how to manipulate people in the name of any deity, religion or philosophy you want to hide behind so you can advance your OWN agenda of nakedly abusing power? Look no further!'
*  psychology  cults  groups  groupthink  conformity  mindcontrol  indoctrination  brainwashing  realityprogramming  ideology  falseconsciousness  sunkcosts 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
The Battle for Your Mind: Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today
'In the entire history of man, no one has ever been brainwashed and realized, or believed, that he had been brainwashed. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their manipulators, claiming they have simply been "shown the light". The sad truth is that a high percentage of people want to give away their power—they are true "believers". They look for answers, meaning, and enlightenment outside themselves. True believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but are those craving to be rid of unwanted self. They are followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation! They are eternally incomplete and eternally insecure. Never underestimate the potential danger of these people. They can easily be molded into fanatics who will gladly work and die for their holy cause. It is a substitute for their lost faith in themselves and offers them a substitute for individual hope.'
psychology  brainwashing  mindcontrol  hypnotism  suggestion  persuasion  propaganda  commonenemy  conformity  groupthink  herd  usefulidiot  self  shame  guilt  stockholmsyndrome  cults 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Changing Minds -- Propaganda
'Propaganda techniques -- #Bandwagon: Pump up the value of 'joining the party'. Play heavily on people's need for belong. #Card-stacking: Build a highly-biased case for your position. Confuse real statistics with high availability of supporters. #Character assassination: Destroy the person: Discredit, Defame, Denigrate, Demonize, Dehumanize. Mud sticks. #Glittering generalities: Use vague power words that appeal to values and evoke emotions. Speak in hypnotic linguistic patterns. #Information management: Knowledge is power. Spin information: Amplification, Downplaying, Distortion, Statistics, Lies, and Meta-propaganda. #Plain folks: Make the leader seem ordinary to increase trust and credibility. #Stereotyping: Classify the other side negatively. Polarize. #Testimonial: Use the testimony of a respected independent person who is seen as more trustworthy. Use celebrities, experts, police, scientists, clerics and divinities. #Transfer: Associate the leader with these trusted others.'
psychology  propaganda  politics  rhetoric  spin  perception  persuasion  socialproof  commonenemy  conformity  groupthink  mindcontrol  brainwashing  realityprogramming  cults 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Psychology Today -- George Carlin's Last Interview
'Maslow said the fully realized man does not identify with the local group. When I saw that I thought: bingo! I do not identify with the local group, I do not feel a part of it. I really have never felt like a participant, I’ve always felt like an observer. Always. I only identified this in retrospect, way after the fact, that I have been on the outside, and I don’t like being on the inside. I don’t like being in their world. I’ve never felt comfortable there; I don’t belong to that. ...things where you sacrifice your individual identity for the sake of a group, for the sake of the group mind. I’ve always felt different and outside. I think I have found an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices. ...they say if you scratch a cynic, you find a disappointed idealist—that’s what’s underneath. I’m not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans’ choices.' -- ;^)
*  psychology  philosophy  GeorgeCarlin  identity  authenticity  groupthink  conformity  heteronomy  apathy  hypocrisy  scorn  cynicism  idealism  truth  comedy 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
New York Times -- Shutting Themselves In
'...80 percent of the hikikomori are male, some as young as 13 or 14 and some who live in their rooms for 15 years or more. As a hikikomori ages, the odds that he'll re-enter the world decline. Indeed, some experts predict that most hikikomori who are withdrawn for a year or more may never fully recover. That means that even if they emerge from their rooms, they either won't get a full-time job or won't be involved in a long-term relationship. And some will never leave home. In many cases, their parents are now approaching retirement, and once they die, the fate of the shut-ins - whose social and work skills, if they ever existed, will have atrophied - is an open question. -- "We used to believe everyone was equal," said Noki Futagami... "But the gap is growing. I suspect there will be a bipolarization of this society. There will be the group of people who can be in the global world. And then there will be others, like the hikikomori. The ones who cannot be in that world."'
psychology  reclusion  hikikomori  solitude  aloneness  japan  conformity  failure  apathy 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America
'Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis.' -- Comment: Arni Highfield: '...slavish obedience to authority has led them into trouble in the past, and it is doing it again, as they ignore the utter failings of their government. No dear friends, don't bank on Japan. Meanwhile, across a narrow stretch of sea sits the nation of South Korea. It has a longer and often richer history than Japan, although with far more than its share of sad episodes. However, its people don't simply revere the past, they invent new and exciting modern culture. Modern art, drama and dance co-exists with ancient temples. People of all backgrounds join an active discussion in the press, on TV and in universities, schools and coffee shops about what is wrong and right with Korea, and where it should be going. They don't put up with crap and protest readily. ...they are moving forward at a staggering pace, and correcting as they go, unlike Japan where almost nobody questions the status quo.'
economics  debt  keynesianism  japan  authority  conformity  southkorea  culture 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
a grammar -- why snark works
'...if flippancy is more fun then it’s also more attractive. Much like the coolest kid in middle school, it’s funny and it’s exclusive and it’s confident of being understood by just the right people—maybe even especially when it’s being superior and snarky and speaking at someone else’s expense. It can be so attractive, in fact, that you want to share its assumptions, whatever they are. It’s not addressing those assumptions, or earnestly explaining them to you in some dull droning unfunny voice, but you want to share them even more, because you aspire to be on the right side of the cool person’s joke. You might not even think about those assumptions, or notice yourself adopting them. Which means flippancy and snark can be convincing, substantively convincing, without even making an argument. They convince socially, not rhetorically. Being convinced socially isn’t anything complicated or new, not in the least...'
psychology  criticism  communication  groups  groupthink  consensus  conformity  rhetoric  snark  retribalization  argumentation 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Cracked.com -- 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed
In nutshell... People conform to the consenus. People are hypocrits who confuse words for deeds. People shirk personal responsibility and initiative when amongst a group of strangers. People will seek positions of power when available or of victimhood when not. People will blindly follow orders issued by authority figures believing they are absolved of all personal responsibility for their subsequent actions.
psychology  doublethink  bellyfeel  consensus  conformity  responsibility  hypocrisy  authority  upsub  power  victimhood  people 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Overcoming Bias -- The Dark Side of Cooperation
Nice reveal on populist/socialist/price-fixing tendencies during times of distress: '...pro-cooperation instincts rely on dangerous conformity. For example, in big disasters like hurricanes, certain goods like gas, wood, water, or food become especially valuable. While natural selfish reactions lead to higher prices for these key items, humans clearly evolved to see this behavior as uncooperative; we resist such price rises, and want to punish those who allow them. Perhaps this made sense for our distant ancestors, but today it is counter-productive. If these goods are not allocated by price, they will instead be allocated by standing in lines, personal connections, etc., processes that are consistently worse at giving goods to those who value them the most, and do worse at creating incentives to prepare for such scenarios. But even when some of us realize that disaster price rises are actually cooperative behavior, pro-”cooperation” instincts get in the way of acting on this insight.'
economics  psychology  groups  conformity  socialism  prices  cooperation  commons 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Pack journalism
'Pack journalism is an often derogatory term used to describe the tendency of news reporting to become homogeneous. Pack journalism occurs because the reporters often rely on one another for news tips or are all similarly dependent on a single source for access (which is often the very person they are covering). A type of groupthink occurs, as the journalists are constantly aware of what the others are reporting and an informal consensus emerges on what is newsworthy.'
journalism  groupthink  conformity  popularity  consensus  realityprogramming 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
The Wall Street Examiner -- Forbes Polls the Wackosphere and Gets An Earful
'The media is fond of saying that no one in the mainstream saw this coming except Roubini. How stupid is this? The media is the sole decision maker about who we get to pay attention to. If they feature only liars and fools, then of course it will seem that no one saw this coming. And they feature almost entirely liars, fools, and criminal manipulators. Let’s consider who got this right in addition to Roubini. [A long list of truthers] Why did we almost never see these guys on the tube or in print. And why, when we did see them, was the usual purpose to ridicule and harass them? Because the media was and is a co-conspirator, witting or unwitting, with the Wall Street criminal distribution machine. The media is populated by conformist morons, too fat and lazy, too coddled by their Wall Street sponsors to be bothered by anything so mundane as to search for the truth. Only the mainstream infomercial media didn’t get it, because they are, after all, on the payroll of the Wall Street Mob.'
economics  america  fraud  ponzi  financialization  hype  misinformation  deception  con  greaterfool  propaganda  retcon  realityprogramming  news  journalism  herd  groupthink  conformity  cults  cronyism  usefulidiot  doublethink  doublespeak  ignorance 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Huffington Post -- Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
'The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found. "The Fed has a lock on the economics world," says Joshua Rosner, a Wall Street analyst who correctly called the meltdown. "There is no room for other views, which I guess is why economists got it so wrong." One critical way the Fed exerts control on academic economists is through its relationships with the field's gatekeepers. For instance, at the Journal of Monetary Economics, a must-publish venue for rising economists, more than half of the editorial board members are currently on the Fed payroll – and the rest have been in the past.' -- Useful idiots are useful
economics  fraud  federalreserve  ideology  hegemony  precuperation  censorship  propaganda  usefulidiot  education  academic  corruption  groupthink  conformity  cults  academia 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Salon -- The media can't handle the truth
Never trust the political opinion of someone in debt or with a stock market gambling problem -- '...here's the big thing about "mainstream" journalism... Upton Sinclair said it best: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." ...the safest place during a stampede is the middle of the herd. Establishment journalists with mortgages, car payments and children in private schools saw what happened to the Dixie Chicks. Why couldn't it happen to them? The United States had been attacked. Feelings ran high, especially in New York and Washington. -- Long under siege for "liberal bias," media careerists now find themselves confronted with people they see as passionate amateurs. But what's really driving these jokers up the wall is economic and intellectual competition from the Internet: people with first-class minds and a passion for truth that some of them can barely remember.'
journalism  bias  obsfucation  propaganda  herd  groupthink  conformity 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Jobless recovery
'No wonder people have suddenly begun worrying so much about their “personal brand”—brand equity has become more important to a firm, conceptually, than loyalty to employees. Employees, to make themselves less expendable, may also need to work to integrate themselves with a company’s brand, to merge the personal with corporate brand if possible, make them inseparable. The personal brand becomes far more important, too, in a labor market full of otherwise interchangeable parts. And with globalization and companies emphasizing their own flexibility rather than a paternalistic approach to workers—no more company men, or lifelong job security—we all can expect to be returned to the labor market repeatedly. So we will begin to need something more than a resume, something more comprehensive, like a personal brand. Depressing.'
work  branding  affectivelabour  conformity  theadvertisedlife 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
The School of Life -- Tom Mellors shares his ambivalence about our herding instincts
'The dominant commandments in our "developed" society too often seem to comprise 'thou shalt consume', 'thou shalt work and be successful', 'thou shalt desire', and 'thou shalt love thyself above all others'. A quick scan of 20th century history provides many examples of where the herd instinct has become a religion and a goal in itself - few examples more destructive than Nazi nationalism. Nietzsche’s alternative to the herd is a life of extreme individualism which is supremely narcissistic. Rather than chase after extreme states of being – within or without of the herd – we should strive to negotiate a balance between the two.' -- Comment: Drew: 'To disobey the conformist pressures of the adjacent crowd is to encourage a disproportionate reaction in those who wish us not to trouble them, with our misdirected need for personal independence from the push and shove of the seething mob around us.'
herd  groupthink  conformity  narcissism  individualism  theadvertisedlife 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
TierneyLab Blog -- Researcher Condemns Conformity Among His Peers
'There’s a powerful human urge to belong inside the group, to think like the majority, to lick the boss’s shoes, and to win the group’s approval by trashing dissenters. The strength of this urge to conform can silence even those who have good reason to think the majority is wrong. You’re an expert because all your peers recognize you as such. But if you start to get too far out of line with what your peers believe, they will look at you askance and start to withdraw the informal title of “expert” they have implicitly bestowed on you. Then you’ll bear the less comfortable label of “maverick,” which is only a few stops short of “scapegoat” or “pariah.”'
science  peerpressure  groupthink  conformity  thoughtcrime  contempt  ostracism 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
The Communications Room -- The top 5 ways to enjoy Twitter and avoid the Twitter cult
'Now is it just me, or is there this weird group of fanatics growing that think they are influencing the whole of mankind in 140 characters? Seriously, it’s like a cult with chapters and stuff. Yes it’s important, rapidly growing, but let’s get some perspective and just a touch of rigour around some of the claims being made... #MJ was officially dead only when the cult said so #The cult has even delivered democracy to Iran through turning their avatars green' -- On self-regarding sensationalists... 'They title things in really sensational ways, even if it’s not related to the point they are actually trying to make. Why? They know that the cult will see it in their RSS reader, take in the first 4 words, then incorrectly Tweet about it claiming another victory for social media over evil...' -- The self-importance of such people never ceases to amaze.
psychology  twitter  socialmedia  puppetry  narcissism  power  delusion  groupthink  herd  conformity  cults 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Far Eastern Economic Review -- Will Japan Ever Grow Up?
'Japan remains in many ways infantilized. -- A well-behaved child is a manageable child, one who is quiet, mild, obedient and passive. The Japanese word for such attributes, otonashii, is the adjective form of the noun adult. Passivity is understood to be the distinguishing mark of adulthood and maturity. -- Passivity is the defense against certain humiliation and misery. This passivity is not withdrawal but its opposite. It demands active participation in society simply to remain an ordinary member-to be seen to show consideration even if not really concerned. It requires sophisticated communication skills in order to cover up conflict. To question general consent, to ask why, is the sign of a child.'
psychology  sociology  bureaucracy  homogeneity  conformity  identity  passivity  japan 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Market Skeptics -- *****Goldman Sachs Arrogance*****
New York Times article with a running commentary: "His tone is placid, soothing until, that is, the subject of American International Group comes up. At this, his eyes widen, his face grows angry, his hands gesture in the air [Criminals always get angry when confronted with their crimes. It is the natural reaction of anyone facing facts that contradict their world view]. If you didn't like the policy, he says of the decision to bail out AIG and pay off its debts to Goldman, one avenue for pursuing your own interests was to attack Goldman Sachs. [In a world that is full of grey, it is very refreshing to have a target to attack which is pure black.] -- Goldman Sachs had collected $7.5 billion from its AIG credit-default swaps but had an additional $13 billion at risk money AIG could no longer pay. In an age in which we've become numb to such astronomical figures, it's easy to forget that $13 billion was a loss that could have destroyed Goldman at that moment."
economics  fraud  theft  GoldmanSachs  cults  conformity  groupthink  hubris  parasitism  denial 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
AnonNewsWire -- Why Anonymous Is A Lie
'the Collective chooses what is Good without regard to societal beliefs, whom the Creator is, or anything associated with how we may otherwise regard new things. Gone, is "Oh, Apple made that? I don't like Apple," gone is, "Jeff likes that movie? Jeff sucks at picking out movies," no longer are there any preconceived notions on what Good is. Good is what the Collective thinks it is. -- Good is a Lie. Anonymous is a Lie. The ideal as improbable as passing a camel through the eye of a needle. -- Anonymous is a lie because it's against nature. As the toad is killed by the scorpion, so then is the Collective dependent upon the Collective. The human searches for patterns, searches for meaning, searches for it's group. As much as we wish to deny it, we are as much a pack animal as the wolf. We agree with those in our pack, and reject those who are not, going so far as to label them, "enemy;" fight against them as though their existence somehow threatens our own.'
anonymous  herd  collectiveintelligence  conformity  groupthink  standalonecomplex 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Adam Curtis Interview: Das Internets 2/2
"What blogging lacks is an enthusiasm for finding out about the world, it has no curiousity, what it actually has is the desire to bully and to shape the world in the way you want it... but it gives people security, you've found your home, here is the part of the internet – and therefore of the world – in which there are people who believe that the Iraq war was all about about oil, over here there are those who believe that actually it was about stopping muslim hordes taking over our culture, and here is the neo-conservative lot who believe it's all about idealism... all these groups are working out how to hold each other up... everyone just establishes their position, the media [inaudible] up, and that's it. -- What marks out all these groups is they're fundamentally negative, they're looking for something to criticise, they don't actually have a political ideal, and what they do is retreat into a simplified – and often very dated – view of the world."
blogging  status  conformity  groupthink  echochamber  myopia  journalism  storytelling  AdamCurtis  interviews 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Death of the blogosphere
'I think the idea that you could make it big in the blogopsphere was always a bit of a distortion, since those people who did make it big most likely would have succeeded in journalism anyway. What seemed to have happened is that the early bloggers formed a network and were able to help each other along into the establishment as they began to advance in their careers. In the past, those sort of networks would not unfold in a public forum, as they did in blogs with all the reciprocal links and log-rolling. If the charm is gone in a certain sector of the blogosphere, it’s because the pretense that it’s not an audition for big media punditry has been dropped. -- Talent is a matter of taking your own work seriously, and the “freewheeling world of the blogosphere” early on had the illusion of being a place where such serious career-mindedness wasn’t necessary. Now we know better.'
blogging  meritocracy  sycophantism  conformity  groupthink  sycophancy 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
The Atlantic -- Get Smarter
'...powerful tools for simulation and visualization that are jump-starting new scientific disciplines, and in the development of drugs that some people (myself included) have discovered let them study harder, focus better, and stay awake longer with full clarity. So far, these augmentations have largely been outside of our bodies, but they’re very much part of who we are today: they’re physically separate from us, but we and they are becoming cognitively inseparable. And advances over the next few decades, driven by breakthroughs in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, will make today’s technologies seem primitive. The nascent jargon of the field describes this as “ intelligence augmentation.” I prefer to think of it as “You+.” We can call it the Nöocene epoch, from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the Nöosphere, a collective consciousness created by the deepening interaction of human minds.' -- Last page: On the pharma-co-logic of the casino-capitalism model. Grim.
*  technology  temes  evolution  symbiosis  cyborg  objects  selfobjects  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  brain  cyberbrain  cognition  intelligence  tethered  transhumanism  #processing  #complexity  attention  filters  ADHD  continuouspartialattention  informationoverload  ambientimmediacy  collectiveintelligence  hivemind  conformity  groupthink  herd  competition  drugs  pharmaceuticals  thegamingofeverydaylife 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Is Facebook a Cult?
'Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. -- ...a cult-like group "offers considerable security to young people because it greatly simplifies the world and answers a contemporary need to combine a sacred set of dogmatic principles with a claim to a science embodying the truth about human behavior and human psychology." Facebook's claim to speak to the basic human need to "connect," combined with the company's number crunching and shiny new graphs, certainly seems scientific and all-encompassing. But isn't there a lot more to human connection than one liner status updates, photos posted online, "thumbs up" and the other relatively mechanistic interactions that people have on Facebook? What's the end result of all these magical connections through relatively shallow communication? Advertising!' -- What have you bought your self into? How much will it cost to buy you out?
facebook  socialnetworking  socialmedia  behaviours  identity  personalitymining  oversharing  conformity  groupthink  astroturfing  herd  stockholmsyndrome  cults  theadvertisedlife 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Max Keiser -- Say that again! Who is responsible for killing five thousand political dissidents?
"Stacy Summary: Stay tuned for the shocker that comes from minute 01.36. [embedded YouTube] The interviewee casually mentions that Mousavi was responsible for executing thousands of political dissidents. Was anyone else aware of this??? I should imagine Rummy and Dick are thinking if they stay quiet for a decade or so, they, too, could possibly return as reformist heroes to the twitterverse?" -- What have the tweeple got themselves mixed up in?
iran  iranelection  twitter  conformity  groupthink  standalonecomplex 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
New Statesman -- Caught in the net
"People have always been affected by the taste of those around them, and that susceptibility to influence helps them make up their own minds. The effect discovered by the Columbia University researchers, however, was much bolder and more specific than that. When an electronic feedback loop is called on to make decisions about quality, their work suggests, there arises an effect that throws everything out of kilter and amplifies the decisions of a few early arrivals into a randomly self-reinforcing spiral of continued popularity. Left to fend for ourselves in a sea of online information, with only our online peers for direction, our decisions about quality and taste, it seems, can become snagged in a self-perpetuating feedback loop of follow-the-leader."
criticism  cybernetics  feedback  popularity  socialproof  influence  conformity  groupthink  herd  circumscription  power 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Joe Clark -- The extreme Google brain
"In the computer industry, extreme male brains permit years of concentration on hardware and software design, while also iterating those designs seemingly ad infinitum. The extreme male brain is really the extreme Google brain. Google was founded by extreme-male-brain nerds and, by all outward appearances, seems to hire only that type of person, not all of them male. My impression of “Googlers,” which I concede is based on little direct knowledge and is prejudicial on its face, is one of undersocialized, uncultured, pampered, arrogant faux-savants who have cultivated an arrested adolescence that the Google working environment further nurtures. Their computer-programming skills, the sole skills valued by the company, camouflage the flaws of their neuroanatomy. Their brains are beautifully suited to the genteel eugenics program that is the Google hiring process but are broken for real-world use."
google  aspergers  conformity  groupthink  design  lulz 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
RarestBlog -- We’re zombies! Literally. (”Cinderellism”)
'In the 2008ies we need some new way to keep ourselves from thinking. I don’t know the right word for the new way, but maybe something like a “cinderellism“? Like, you know - that tale, where a simple girl suddenly gets everything? Yeah, the midnight is kind of a downer, but, none of these above stories seem to talk about that. Since there’s a lot of problems around, you need to: 1) be deterred from thinking about those problems; 2) vote for the right guys, just to make sure that YOU chose him. Which later, as Robert Cialdini teaches us, leaves you in defensive position even if you made a bad decision... So, you chose The President, now you must approve what he does - he’s your decision. This is really weird - every other day I hear another Cinderella story, but it stops right before midnight. It’s like some weird recurring dream. It seems like marketing/political plays, made to drive sales/elections. But what if ALL those guys were hired actors?…'
metanarratives  narrative  tropes  cognition  influence  manipulation  selling  doublethink  conformity  groupthink  herd  cindererllism 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
WSJ.com -- Most-Popular Lists Breed More Popularity
'And maybe it doesn't matter so much if the most-deserving entrant wins, whether it's Britney Spears ruling pop, or a gossip item leading a list of most-read news articles. "If we view the role of cultural products as giving us something to talk about, then the most important thing might be that everyone sees the same thing and not what that thing is," Prof. Salganik says.' -- Monkey see, monkey do. -- 'Users are shaping news by voting up popular-culture coverage and gossip on many sites. "Celebrities, sex and anything Jon Stewart-related" rise quickly to the top of the list at the news-aggregator Newser, according to Chief Executive Patrick Spain. "This is at odds with what people tell us about what they want in their news -- serious, important stories."' -- Monkey is, monkey isn't.
psychology  groups  behaviours  conformity  groupthink  popularity  mimicry  copycat  socialproof  socialobjects  sharedobjects  objects  culture  circumscription  feedback  negentropy  #socialization  #ubiquity  #specialization 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Overcoming Bias -- Talk Is Not About Info
'Groups tend to spend most of their time discussing the information shared by members, which is therefore redundant, rather than discussing information known only to one or a minority of members. This is important because those groups that do share unique information tend to make better decisions. ... Ironically, ... groups that talked more tended to share less unique information. Why? My guess: people know they are respected and liked more by other team members when they say things others already agree with. Saying something new may help the team, but it puts you at risk.'
psychology  groups  behaviours  conformity  groupthink  homogeneity 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Why Your Baby’s Name Will Sound Like Everyone Else’s
'Now that everyone relentlessly Googles baby names, parents have no excuse if they saddle their kids with the most popular names. What’s hard for parents is that what feels like your own personal taste, it’s everybody’s taste,” Wattenberg says. “It’s a no win situation - if you pick a name you like, probably everybody else will like it too.” And that’s what’s fascinating about watching the nation-level trends in baby naming. The national nomenclature is transformed living room by living room as one frazzled couple after another makes a seemingly personal decision for underlying phonetic reasons they haven’t considered. “People may think they named a child after great, great grandma Olivia, but they have a lot of great, great grandmas, and they picked Olivia because it fits the popular sounds,” Wattenberg says. And that’s how a country’s culture changes: People cherry-picking from the past as they look for a name to call the future.' -- How about choosing one that's good?
names  narrativeobjects  selfobjects  objects  psychology  individualism  hivemind  herd  conformity  groupthink  language  phonetics  #socialization 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
The Archdruid Report -- A Struggle of Paradigms
"[Thomas Kuhn, in his famous book 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'] argued that different paradigms are not attempts to answer the same questions, differing in their level of accuracy, but attempts to answer entirely different questions – or, to put it another way, they are models that highlight different features of a complex reality, and cannot be reduced to one another. -- The industrial paradigm can only interpret running out of one resource as a call to begin exploiting some even richer one. If there is no richer one, and even the poorer ones are rapidly being depleted as well, what then? From within the industrial paradigm, that question cannot even be formulated; the assumption that there is always some new and better resource to be had is hardwired into the ways of thinking that the industrial paradigm makes inevitable. Thus a change of paradigms is necessary."
metanarratives  paradigms  ecology  economics  ideology  science  conformity  groupthink  dialectics  progress  growth  ponzi  delusion  #diversity  #specialization  JohnMichaelGreer 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Rough Type -- Is Twitter making us stupider?
On popularity crowding out quality.
web  twitter  criticism  popularity  homogeneity  conformity  groupthink 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
The Twitalyzer for Tracking Influence and Measuring Success in Twitter
"Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence [followers], signal-to-noise ratio [RT, via. @, http://, #], generosity [RT], velocity [tweets/time], clout [@self], and other useful measures of success in social media."
twitter  socialmedia  attention  popularity  influence  conformity  groupthink  metrics  analytics  tools 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
BusinessWeek -- What Good Are Economists Anyway?
*The Classics* -- John Maynard Keynes on useful idiots: "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." (Oh, the irony.) -- Ben Bernanke (Holder of a PhD in How To Create A Great Depression) on the Fed-created Great Depression of the 1930s: "You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again." (NEVAR FORGET) -- Alan Greenspan on a career built of doublethink: "I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well." (Got Gold, Mr Greenspan? http://bit.ly/77ifu) -- Paul Krugman (useful idiot par excellence) on nobel-prized-prat keynesist fundamentalism: "This is really fairly shameful, that we should be wasting precious months as a profession retracing debates that were settled 70 years ago." (Meaning: 'The logic of spending your way out of debt is irrefutable!') -- Listen to these numbskulls at your peril
economics  debt  fraud  criticism  cronyism  keynesianism  ideology  conformity  groupthink  doublethink  government  corruption  AlanGreenspan  BenBernanke 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Prospect Magazine -- 'Clickstream journalism' by Andrew Currah
'In their thirst for feedback, news sites now feature provocative league tables, ranking stories by “most clicked” or “most emailed.” With exceptions, the rankings are dominated by those that encapsulate the weirder, more idiosyncratic aspects of human existence, at the expense of serious but more abstract issues... As newspaper circulation figures fall sharply it’s only logical for publishers to huddle under an umbrella of popular stories. By reflecting the interests of the crowd, they can attract millions of eyeballs and more advertising. This process, in turn, artificially narrows news around a handful of “tent pole” stories... Stories that need to be found, developed and verified by an international network of permanent staff are expensive by comparison. ...journalists have long been “our eyes on the state, our check on private abuses, our civic alarm systems.” New technologies offer a great opportunity but, if mishandled, the future of civil society is in peril.'
journalism  news  numbers  realityprogramming  popularity  conformity  groupthink  ignorance 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
TIME.com -- Populist Rage? …Never Mind
'So, yes, people are "angry" at Wall Street. They are also "angry" at Octomom. I wonder if the depth and quality of those two rages differ--or is this all just a television show? I mean, how many demonstrations, how many economic riots, have there been?' The problem with outrage is that it occludes vision. If you want to be angry about something, get pissed at a media culture that goes beserk about bonuses one week and forgets all about them the next. And be worried, quite worried, about a society for whom anger is a form of entertainment.'
economics  entertainment  realitytv  popculture  journalism  fraud  RAGE  anger  denial  ignorance  conformity  groupthink  twominuteshate  hate  boredom  via:diemkay  culture 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
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