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Collective Thinking
Title: Collective Thinking
Category: Social Sciences / Psychology
Details: Words: 818 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Collective Thinking
Collective Thinking
Individualism. This idea is beaten through our heads since we learn how to first read. Slogans such as “Everyone’s opinion counts,” to “Be an Army of one,” are catapulted into our brains to ensure our self-esteem and self-reliance. In fact, is this really the way Americans think? Doris Lessing, in Group Minds clearly does not think so. “We are group animals…when we’re in a group, we tend to think as …showed first 75 words of 818 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 818 total…As humans, especially that of a higher culture, we like to believe that our opinions are our own, and never challenge this view. If we did, we would realize how wrong we are, and that most of our “opinions” are predetermined. This combined with the information we have about mechanisms of the human race should allow us to free ourselves from “blind loyalties, obedience to slogans, rhetoric, leaders, [and] group emotions. “Well, there is it.”
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