Do you know the Asch experiment?
It states that people will conform with the majority even if the majority is wrong.
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LittleMilwee
The lines? Yeah
SW-User
Yes. It still exist today. Search, follow the leader-brain games. People will follow and conform with the majority even if they have no idea what the majority is doing.
LittleMilwee
I believe that it's kinda like peer pressure people still go ahead even if its wrong
SW-User
Yes. Peer pressure can stem from this. It is amazing what people will do just to fit in.
LittleMilwee
Yeah from drugs to crimes! Just crazy!
atenra11
Well i think in the 60s and 70s the economist John Kenneth Galbraith always spoke in his books of 'the accepted wisdom'
and how mainstream thought about money and the economy is what actually hoses people in the long term, when people do NOT question what we are doing, and how everyone says, things are okay
we are doing what worked before in the past....
and it applies to everything else
Civil Rights and Jim Crow, how the majority will do stuff and go along with it, and it also goes on with stupidity of corporate culture, or even in the circles of foreign policy and intelligence.
Like when Johnson's 'Wise Men' were all for Vietnam and then some had dissent, and then Johnson has his own doubts, but people carry on doing the wrong thing because either the public or congress will crucify you because you're wrong, or that you changed your opinion to something 'better'.
Now people realize that in Johnson was in power longer he would have killed off the war much quicker than Nixon who used it for 5 years and two elections [1968 and 1972] for winning elections first and killing people second.
and how mainstream thought about money and the economy is what actually hoses people in the long term, when people do NOT question what we are doing, and how everyone says, things are okay
we are doing what worked before in the past....
and it applies to everything else
Civil Rights and Jim Crow, how the majority will do stuff and go along with it, and it also goes on with stupidity of corporate culture, or even in the circles of foreign policy and intelligence.
Like when Johnson's 'Wise Men' were all for Vietnam and then some had dissent, and then Johnson has his own doubts, but people carry on doing the wrong thing because either the public or congress will crucify you because you're wrong, or that you changed your opinion to something 'better'.
Now people realize that in Johnson was in power longer he would have killed off the war much quicker than Nixon who used it for 5 years and two elections [1968 and 1972] for winning elections first and killing people second.