#group think

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

- Oscar Wilde

[pratchettquotes]

[...] Vimes stepped out into the evening air.

There were people hanging around out there, in little groups of three or four, talking among themselves and occasionally turning to look at the Watch House.

Vimes sat down on the steps and took a sip of his cocoa.

He might as well have dropped his breeches. The groups opened up, became an audience. No man drinking a nonalcoholic drink had ever been the center of so much attention.

He'd been right. A closed door is an incitement to bravery. A man drinking from a mug, under a light, and apparently enjoying the cool night air, is an incitement to pause.

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[conscious-love]

seerutkchawla ~ Instagram

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mary Elaine LeBey:

TODAY'S FROZEN MOMENT - 85th Anniversary - September 5th, 1938 - this incredible photograph... the color, the composition, the horror... Here were Waffen-SS soldiers taking a communal loyalty oath at a Nazi rally in front of Munich's Feldherrnhalle

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“The modern masses do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience… What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism [philosophybits]

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“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. 

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. 

But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.” 

—Henry A. Wallace, FDR's Vice-President

[mymidwestheart]

[defypropaganda]

[phan3145]

MODERN GONCHAROV CAST:

Pt. 2

Ice Pick Joe/Joe Morelli- Oscar Isaac

Sofia- Mila Kunis

Katya- Blake Lively

Andrey/Andrei Daddano- Micheal Bublé

Goncharov- David Boreanaz

[didanawisgi]

The Top 5 Personality Traits Necessary for Resisting Social Pressure, And How You Can Develop Them

[murasaki-sama]

Looking for communication (studies) nerds

Hello! I have a BS in Communication (Intercultural) and I am looking for a few fellow nerds in the field. Do you like to talk about proxemics, group think, muted group theory, culture shock, high and low context cultures and how they differ, when public communication becomes mass communication, organizational culture and more related theories and topics and concepts?  Are you fascinated by real world examples for these theories and concepts? what about fictional world/story examples? Do you just like to bullshit and rant about the concepts for fun?

I am creating a discord group for like minding fellow nerds, and one of the biggest groups I would like to have join is communication (studies) nerds! Also people who are queer, neurodivergent, have chronic physical and/or mental health issues, and like stories (reading them and/or writing their own!).

For now, though, I would really love to connect with some communication people! Send me an ask or a private message if you are one and would like to connect! I’ll reply with a link to the discord (its still a WIP).

Please reblog this so it breaks containment! Thanks.

[thepopoptic]

Watch "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS a feminist" on YouTube

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Ideology wants to convince you that its truth is absolute. A novel shows you that everything is relative. The more ideological our century becomes, the more anachronistic is the novel. But the more anachronistic it gets, the more we need it.

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera 1929-2023 RIP

[pratchettquotes]

"You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it.

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

[ukdamo]

Flag

John Agard

What’s that fluttering in a breeze?

Its just a piece of cloth

that brings a nation to its knees.

What’s that unfurling from a pole?

It’s just a piece of cloth

that makes the guts of men grow bold.

What’s that rising over a tent?

It’s just a piece of cloth

that dares the coward to relent.

What’s that flying across a field?

It’s just a piece of cloth

that will outlive the blood you bleed.

How can I possess such a cloth?

Just ask for a flag my friend.

Then blind your conscience to the end.

[anachrolady]

This is absolutely becoming the case.  I’ve experienced it myself.  This type of bullying and childish nonsense must stop.  We need to learn to live with one another, tolerate differences in thought/beliefs/values, rather than ostracize and cut out people from our lives we disagree with.  How else are we to grow?  Learn?  Empathize?  This type of tribalism and willful disparity is so unnecessary and is destroying our ability to be human.