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"The main hypothesis concerning group-think is this: The more amiability and esprit de corps among the members of the in-group of policy makers the greater the danger that independent thinking will be...
View ArticleDangerous Decision Making and Republicans
DANGEROUS DECISION MAKING was the title of an article in the Feb 2004 issue of FLYING magazine that referenced an article in the 2003 issue of USAA magazine. The original USAA article was titled "The...
View ArticleThe NPR Thought Police issue new citations
I still listen -- there must be some underlying masochisim involved. In the 4PM news break a reporter talked about the uproar in Britain over Blair's interview in which he said something about praying...
View ArticleKarl Rove: Mindguard
What role does Karl Rove play in the mindlessness of the Bush administration? Rove is Bush's mudguard to protect his boss from information and thought.
View ArticleGroupthink (in honor of the Republican meltdown)
There have been many diaries today about the Republican collapse. Notably, here and here. These diaries (and the sources they link to) suggest that the causes of the Republican meltdown are scandals,...
View ArticleFrom Freedom to Fascism in Just One Week, or, Why We Can't Depend on...
(Crossposted to My Left Wing and my personal blog.) "I can see the looks on some of your faces, saying, 'Oh, I would have walked differently.' Then ask yourselves why you were clapping." - John Keating...
View ArticleThe People's Republic of Me: Novelist Nick Mamatas declares his independence
"The book deals with the foundation of microstates that ultimately recapitulate the problems of the US, shows that the political question isn't just a matter of individual lifestyle, or of choosing one...
View ArticlerEpUbLiCaNhOtTiE VII
This one looks a little different. I made the charecters more human, but you tell me, which ones do you like better? Should I stick with the sticks or not?
View ArticleAre you Kidding Me, Kossacks?
Tom Collins' Nevada Democrats have gotten some criticism from Kos for signing up with Fox News to broadcast a Democratic Presidential debate. Kos cited concerns about Fox disrespecting the candidates...
View ArticleOn Dissent and Groupthink w/Poll
The unexamined life is not worth living – Socrates via Plato. One of the really cool things about Daily Kos, and political blogging communities in general, is that there is a diversity of opinion...
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The Bush Administration: A Perfect Case-Study for Groupthink
The following entry is based off a milestone article by Irving Janis in the Psychology Today magazine, published in Nov. 1971 on Groupthink. "How could we have been so stupid?" President JFK asked...
View ArticleThe Lie of Self Reflection
I have previously posted about what I believe is problem that has begun to present itself on the blogosphere which is a top-down, editor/front pager driven discussion. Yet there are other issues that...
View ArticleDeconstructing Hillary's Groupthink
On this fine pre-summer day I thought I'd cruise through the symptoms of groupthink as outlined by Irving Janis in 1977. I've added the symptom and the correlating reaction from Hillary's forces. Enjoy.
View ArticleRepublican versus Democratic Groupthink (with poll)
Political opinions, election decisions, and other decisions, are often made by groupthink. Obama and McCain both rely on groupthink to haul in large portions of their bases. However, for Republicans,...
View ArticleGroupthink in the Bush administration
Of the many criticisms that can be leveled at two terms of the Bush administration, a comparatively mild one is that its major actors were guilty, as a group, of poor decision making. Nevertheless, I...
View ArticleThis is my farthest out-there limb yet, but it is our problem
Maybe PastorDan will have some words with me, I confess I have not been to the SP for a while, but I have to air this out. What I saw last night in Minneapolis scares me to my core. There is a reason...
View ArticleAfghanistan
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.] Welcome to the lovely American experience of winning an election and receiving no power with it—not yet. A completely necessary interlude, yes, but in the meantime...
View ArticleWho We Are
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.] Glennzilla described the soon-to-be horrifying capitulation to one of the most obnoxious and sinister political forces of the Senate—Joe Lieberman—as a "silver...
View ArticleOf Power and Neckties
We have been lied to. The problem is not just that we have been lied to, but that even the well-intentioned people lied to us about how well they understood what was going on. They may not have...
View ArticleGroupthink -- n, group + think (as in doublethink)
Byrdes of a kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together..." as one William Turner wrote in his papal satire in the year 1545. One of the defining qualities of homo sapiens is that we do tend to...
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