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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LII–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Three — Groupthink
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LII June 7, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Three — Groupthink This contemplation is the third part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
Groupthink: we are all victims
Groupthink: we are all victims US HHS response to COVID was textbook, in all the wrong ways “Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.” Fredrich Nietzsche We all seek to understand the root causes of the COVIDcrisis. We crave an answer, and hope is that we can find some sort of […]
The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess
The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong. What’s the difference between a forecast and a guess? On one level, the answer is “none”: the future is unknown and even the most informed forecast is still a guess. The evidence for […]
The Groupthink Pandemic
The Groupthink Pandemic Groupthink is all around us. Decision-making in government, in the media and at work. It’s slowly killing the world. In the background of the most important events, the Covid-19 response and increasing tension and conflict in the world, it might be worth looking through some of this in a bit more detail. […]
California Rooftop Solar Mandate: An example of bad groupthink?
California Rooftop Solar Mandate: An example of bad groupthink? In recent news, California legislators have done a gimmick-trick that has earned the state loud applause from the environmentally-minded consumers and activists: California Energy Commission (CEC) recently voted 5-0 to add a new provision to the state’s building code. This includes a requirement that from 2020, […]
Threats to Family Farms & Homesteading from Agri-Business and Groupthink
Threats to Family Farms & Homesteading from Agri-Business and Groupthink This research-based article details the multiple threats to good, community farming practices and small-scale organic/cooperative endeavors. The threats take the form of social engineering in the guise of “managed providers working for the common good of the majority of people,” when in effect it concentrates […]
Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing
Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing Photo Source Lisa Abitbol/Nieman Foundation for Journalism | CC BY 2.0 The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was “a trailblazer for independent journalism”, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common. Hersh […]
Christopher Booker gets serious about understanding “Groupthink”
Christopher Booker gets serious about understanding “Groupthink” We toss the term Groupthink around a lot, but Christopher Booker gets serious about exactly what it is and what it means. He analyzes the “Climate Change” debate through the lens of the original scientific study of Groupthink as published by Irving Janis, a professor of psychology at […]
Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections Exclusive: As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue, reports Robert Parry. The U.S. mainstream media’s year-long hysteria over Russia’s alleged role in the election of Donald […]
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship Exclusive: Arriving behind the anti-Trump “resistance” and the Russia-gate “scandal” is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives, writes Robert Parry. A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s […]
Central Bank Group Think: Convince the Public More Inflation is Coming
Central Bank Group Think: Convince the Public More Inflation is Coming Chicago Fed chief Charles Evans is worried about the lack of inflation primarily because he is clueless about where to find it. As further proof of his economic illiteracy, Evans says “Low inflation expectations keep inflation down”. Bloomberg reports Evans Says Fed Must Convince […]
Look at the big picture, avoid groupthink, remember history
Look at the big picture, avoid groupthink, remember history A friend of mine recently outlined as follows his method for thinking about important issues: Look at the big picture, avoid groupthink, and remember history. First, the big picture. People too often think only about the narrow field in which they work or the community or […]
3 Things Sheeple Do That You Don’t Have To
3 Things Sheeple Do That You Don’t Have To Do you ever get that feeling like you’re surrounded by automatons, people who merely mimic life, without really living it? Sheeple, as they may be called, are otherwise ordinary folks who’ve adapted particularly well to the workforce/consumer/obedience training agenda. They’ve been taught to be docile, foolish and easily led. They’re particularly keen […]
How To Spot Groupthink Among Economists
How To Spot Groupthink Among Economists As GMO’s James Montier says in his latest white paper today “it seems one can hardly open a financial newspaper or read a blog these days without tripping over some academic-cum-central banker talking about the once arcane notion of the equilibrium real interest rate.” Sure enough, it is the […]
