#herd mentality

[archtroop]

Sometimes I need to remind myself that tumblr is a fringe social network, and is by far not the average. What it is though, is a good sampler of the more extreme, I would say, ideologically swayed. A bit.

The more comments and notes I read from the Free Palestine crowd, the more it gets obvious that these are incapable, useful idiots. Literally, spoonfed couchpotatos at best. Starbucks Boycoyters at worst.

It's like the 00's insecure attention seeking posers, with an amoral, ignorant twist to them.

And they are entirely, ABSOLUTELY useless people.

Some morally rotten such individual wrote me that "Israel deserves what's coming for them, you deserve to die" etc. And it really made me think. What's coming? WHO'S coming? You? You, an unemployed tumblrina? You and what army?

What are you gonna do? Try to kill us all? What's the WORST you can do that wasn't, hasn't been tried already?

Truth is, no one is coming.

You read about this pompous, self indulgent "Palestinian Activism Solidarity ". What the FUCK are you talking about? Where is it? What, SA under IRI at the ICJ?.... Watermelon emojis...? ...Slogans?

The most "affective" actions FreePalestine Movement "achieved" was a few shootings/stabbings/rammings here and there, a hostage situation in Turkey in the name of Palestine (the man was executed on the spot after some negotiations. Turkey, yeah). A few burnt synagogues around the world and a whole lot of terrorized Jews in the Diaspora. Not a single Palestinian benefited. Not in Gaza anyway. To sum it up, what exactly are you gonna do? Blow yourself up in a subway in the name of Palestine? How incredibly unoriginal and unhelpful. Although expected and unsurprisingly fitting to the roots of the movement, I'll give you all that.

No one is coming. A lot of pakapaka from Nassrallah and Co. and a radio silence from the Arab world.

Iran pulled the Houthies out of their boydem only for Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan to reluctantly push the button to down Houthie ammo flying towards Israel. Houthies "asked" of Saudi Arabia to "let them cross over to fight the Zionists", and not only this is a joke, a caravan of sandals-wearing, AK-47 totting, Houthie caravan crossing Saudia to do what exactly? Bite Israeli ankles in Eilat Port? Rather It's an insult, to show that "here see we tried", since Saudis are fighting the Houthies FOR YEARS, it was never an actual option to begin with.

Are you blind? No. One. Is. Coming.

After 75 years of trying to erase Israel from the map, the 7th of October unleashed what could only have happened after Israel had its last straw broken.

Congratulations, you've managed at dehumanizing Israelis to the point that you managed to rob us from one aspect of humanity, even if temporarily: our symphaty.

Not forever, but for a period. And when you did so, you WERE LUCKY, for US were here WITHIN MINUTES, being smart enough to talk Israel out from attacking on the freaking spot. Instead, Israel waited 3 damn weeks. For 3 weeks, Israel called for the evacuation of Gazans from the northern side of Gaza.

Symphaty has an expiration date. The 7th of October 2023 was that date. You backed Israel to a wall, and no slogan will suffice against a nation that KNOWS that its very existence was threatened in a very real, visceral, inhumane, and depraved way.

No one is coming. Not for us, not for the Gazans. The Arab world is waiting to see, when will they wake up with one Iranian proxy less on the map. The truth is, aside from the pakapaka all round the clock, Isrsel was left with "do what you do, we wait" kind of global attitude.

Arab nations don't care about Palestinians. They don't care for the Palestinian Cause. Never had. It was always for show, as a pawn. A distraction. And we know it, very well.

The Palestinians are, and always were, used. They were used to carry on this idea that Israel would disappear from the map. If not by force, then by proxy warfare and terrorism, with time. If not by proxies, then by mass protest and public opinion. But the thing is, reality is a material thing. You need TO DO a thing for it TO HAPPEN. And public opinion rarely holds. And for how it's loud, the Free Palestine Movement is nothing but that: Loud.

As for the undoing of Israel and Bney Israel, well. Many have tried.

And oh boy, did the Arab nations TRIED.

They PAYED for trying.

But that's in the past, largely. Now, the annihilation of Israel and the creation of a Palestine is just a cruel pipe dream, with human prisoners, and an international cheering squad. After all, you can't free something that never existed and couldn't form one coherent ideology that makes sense and strives towards a positive, creation-adjacent activity in 75 years of its yappery. It's just not there. If the ideology surrounds destruction, it can not create. It can only destroy.

You may shout your lungs out and make up all kinds of delusional narratives. In the end, they are just that: empty words to make the righteous self of the woke crowd feel better, to feel active. To be a part.

To be USED.

It says a lot about the sad reality of this mass of people. The yearning for purpose, this loneliness. The rootlessness. Loss of identity. Identities so fractured, so incohesive. Loss of trust in the institution. The shallow knowledge. The practically non-existent reading comprehension.

All are easily diverted to create this cult like behavior.

People cry their eyes out over something that not only they have zero way of affecting but oftentimes is inflated, twisted, and presented as something completely false, or fake or what have you, instead of looking around them and doing something about their own realities. Pouring their hearts out over an unreality, fruitless.

This is either willful ignorance or escapism. Can't even say which one is worse.

This mass is being used. It creates a pool of despair, mysery. Feelings of "not enough", of unachievment. Those masses are breeding grounds for terrorism activity recruitment.

One party, one goal.

Free Palestine is a magic combination of words. You would ask, what is it? And they would sell you, ah, it's this magical place over the rainbow far, far away, and you can be the savior of those people. What a beautiful fantasy. Except you can't save those who did all their best to commit a slow, painstaking suicide, over 75 years. It's unrealistic, whatever this so-called "movement" is yapping about. There are no outlines, no strategy. It's just empty, big, bombastic words, to rile up emotionally as many people as possible, who look for a meaning.

I keep remembering the movie The Wave (2008). It's amazing how word by word, scene by scene, the story is playing out right now with worrying accuracy.

I don't know where this will lead Europe, UK, US, Canada... Australia... you all should be on high alert internally. But one thing is pretty clear.

No one is coming. As for Israel... You did your worst already. You have left Israel with nothing to be afraid of.

BDS biggest achievement was the eventual unemployment of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. UN is a joke. Red Cross is a joke. UNRWA exposed, visibly and undeniably. Abraham Accords are proceeding, even if slower, yet still they do. HAMAS gets mopped the floor with. And Lebanon has to do the impossible: drag Hezbollah away from the Isrseli border. Otherwise, there won't be much of a Lebanon to speak about in a very short amount of time. And that's not even a threat. It's reality. As government officials in Lebanon plead with Hezbollah to halt, Israel is ready on the border for 80,000 Israelis are internally displaced within Isrsel itself because of the war with HAMAS, but mainly away from the northern border because of constant shelling by Hezbollah.

And it won't hold forever.

And no one is coming.

Because who will? You and what army?

#israel #gaza #palestine #geopolitics #the wave #herd mentality #free Palestine

[inhibited-irregularity]

My my

How convenient that all the juries rewarded S*eden with points just in time for ABBA's 50yrs reunion?

#Sweden has no personality outside ABBA it seems #Käärijä was ROBBED #the public points loreen got are fine #still overrated #but we can call it fair #but the juries #it's not the lack of taste #it's the bootlicking #herd mentality #generic pop song #KÄÄRIJÄ IS THE REAL WINNER #eurovison #esc 2023 #eurovision song contest #finland #liverpool 2023 #cha cha cha #esc 2023 finland

[yourinterestisnotcringe]

wanna have this on my blog ♡ (x)

#i paused the video because. yeah. #ian hecox #smosh #smosh games #smoshblr #herd mentality #ian #mine

[sunflowerdigs]

When people say "that's an explanation, not an excuse" about Billy being an abuse victim, then proceed to use that as an excuse (ironically) to analyze the character as though the abuse didn't happen...

It's like if you missed a week of school because you were sick and then got tested on what was taught that week the day you got back. And then, when you inevitably failed, you asked your teacher for leniency because, duh, you weren't there, and he said "that's an explanation, not an excuse" and flunked you anyway.

Like, yes, the fact that it's an explanation doesn't excuse it, but it's a legitimate reason for the teacher to reconsider why you failed and consider not failing you because something happened to you that you couldn't help. That doesn't mean that you aren't taking responsibility for missing those days - you will catch up eventually and retake the test. But it's completely illogical for your teacher to ignore the reason you did not know the material and grade you the same way that he would grade someone who was there but just goofed off and didn't study.

Billy fans are not saying that Billy doesn't owe apologies. We're not even saying that Max and Lucas have to accept those apologies. We're saying that the abuse creates an extenuating circumstance that makes judging Billy based on who he became in order to survive the abuse completely illogical. That was the point of Eleven showing us Billy's memories and Eleven being able to get through to him by reminding him of who he was before it was just him and his abuser. You are meant to extend him empathy because of that and realize that the boy in the memory is who Billy actually is, underneath the armor.

When you assume that Billy is just inherently bad no matter what after being given persuasive evidence to the contrary, and when you say that the only way that Billy should be handled is with violence, you are using the same mentality as Neil Hargrove and you are preaching the gospel of an abuser. And it is really distressing and disturbing.

#billy hargrove #stranger things #abuse tw #tw abuse #herd mentality

[ianthoni]

So babygirl 🥺

#herd mentality #ian hecox #smosh #ian is being babygirl again i see #ian babygirl hecox #☀️💛 #my gifs

[random-xpressions]

Stop being a victim to propaganda - question everything!

Random Xpressions

#herd mentality #never buy lies

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Virtue by Association.

#Seerut Chawla #parrot #virtue signal #virtue signalling #virtue signaling #herd mentality #think for yourself #tell the truth #religion is a mental illness

[scarefox]

One thing about me is that I am avoiding herd behavior in everything and try to double check before I maybe engage.

You all telling me xy is bad and should be canceled? Let me check that first just in case yall are stupid and gullible.

You all telling me xy is so damn good and should be consumed / followed immediately? Let me check that first just in case yall are stupid and gullible.

xy said we all should do a thing and you all are doing that now?? Let me check that first just in case yall are stupid and gullible.

Also big groups of people will have fights sooner or later and I have no energy for that.

#the amounts of times I had to witness or read about people blindly following the masses #and then it turned out it lead to a big pile of exploding shit #or hyped up media turned out to be just okayish #or someone canceled turned out to be innocent but now their life is ruined because people decided to dox them and call their boss #herd mentality #hive minds #cancle culture

[pervysenpaix]

The girls wanna tussle 😭😭

#herd mentality

[anarchyandacupofcoffee]

#bertrand russell #quote #collectivism #herd mentality

[financialnv]

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#9 of 10 #financial revolution #herd mentality #instant gratification #social media mirage

[dangersofconformity]

Reblog this to inspire your followers to resist mindless conformity 🎁

Non-conformity resources: https://linktr.ee/dangers.of.conformity 🧠

#conformity #nonconformity #non conformity #individuality #nonconformist #beyourself #be yourself #quotes #criticalthinking #critical thinking #nonconformists #herdmentality #herd mentality #sayings #aphorisms #quotations #selfreliance #self reliance #thoughtprovoking #thought provoking #quoteoftheday #quote of theday #foodforthought #food for thought #independentthinking #independent thinking #conformityquotes #conformity quotes #nonconformityquotes #nonconformity quotes

[wayti-blog]

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

Hans F Hansen

#herd mentality #critical thinking #intuition #crowd #independent #thinking #feeling #question #consciousness #awareness #power #strength #inner calm #meditation #solitude #alone #silence #energy #attunement #source

[r0b0-writes]

Title: The Protector of the Forest | Herd Mentality | SCC Poly Desc: + Warning + : This drabble has gore! A short drabble I wrote in the forest god's au!

#herd mentality #tw gore #gore

[ophelia-network]

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." Robertson Davies

#society #robertson davies #quotes #culture #psychology #ophelia net #ignorance #stupidity #herd mentality #groupthink #nonsense #mind

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Helen Pluckrose

Published: Nov 18, 2022

One of the things that most makes me lose faith in our species is our tendency to form our beliefs about what is true based on our political positions and to do so in clusters of issues that don’t actually have any relation to each other. Here are just a few of them.

Critical Social Justice theories (wokeness) are largely false & counterproductive to improving social injustice.

The UK is better off outside the European Union.

Masks and vaccines are ineffective in limiting the spread and severity of Covid19.

Climate change is not being influenced by human actions.

My own (provisional and subject to revision based on evidence) positions on these are:

True

False

False

False

Nevertheless, it is frequently assumed that because I am very vocal in my opposition to Critical Social Justice and advocate for liberalism instead, that I will hold all of the other positions as well. I know this because of the number of times I have been asked to contribute to discussions on the last three with the assumption that I will take a position contrary to the one that I actually have. This is infuriating for two reasons.

Firstly, it is unwarranted for anyone to believe that the fact that I have spent twelve years studying the evolution of postmodern thought into current “woke” theories and activism in any way qualifies me to have respect-worthy opinions on the functioning of the EU, epidemiology or climate science. It simply doesn’t. On those last three topics, I have had to gain my own tentative opinions by reading accessible breakdowns for the layperson written by people who do have relevant expertise and differing opinions.

In the case of the Brexit vote that I participated in, I was forced to accept that the three months I had to gain an understanding of the functioning of the EU was simply not long enough to do so. I particularly lost the will to live when it came to trying to get my head around all the documents on trade agreements and fishing rights. This is simply not my area of expertise nor my area of interest. Also, like the vast majority of people, I am reliant on scientists to form a consensus about the best way to understand and address epidemics and climate change. The fact that these consensuses adjust themselves in accordance with new evidence is a benefit and not a flaw of science. As Bertrand Russell said,

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

Secondly, there is simply no rational reason for anybody who believes one or more of the above statements to be true to then believe all of them to be true. Nevertheless, it seems that very often they do and this does not appear to be because everybody other than me has somehow managed to become an expert on the evolution of postmodern thought, the workings of the European Union, epidemiology and climate science. Instead, it seems to be because of our tendency to work on loose heuristics of what we should believe in depending on what our values or moral intuitions are.

The thing that links all the issues above is the concept of liberty and an opposition to any suppression of it, particularly by powerful governing bodies. The protection of liberty, freedom of speech and belief and autonomous decision making are important moral intuitions which I share. Nevertheless, we should try to be aware of the intuitive underpinnings of them and limit the extent to which these intuitions lead us to decide what is and isn’t true. The tendency to go with intuition first and then apply ad hoc reasoning is natural to us and even useful in many situations . Jonathan Haidt discusses this at length in Righteous Minds.

Nevertheless, the issues above are either true or false. I strongly believe, based on my years of study, that the first one is true. I am inclined to believe the last three to be false based on the reading for the layperson that I have done. I am open to changing my mind on any of these given sufficient evidence to do so. I oppose any simplistic narratives demonising anybody who has a different position to me. I do not believe those who think the UK is better off outside the EU (including my husband and my parents) to be racist xenophobes and suggesting that they are is no more justifiable than suggesting I am a treasonous hater of democracy. Time will tell how this move impacts us as a country and as autonomous individuals within that country. I do wish that we could stop accusing each other of nefarious motives for having different opinions on this.

When it comes to issues of science as in the case of epidemics and climate change, it is even more ridiculous to base what one believes to be true about the management of these on moral intuitions about liberty. Instead, we should try to establish what is true first and then apply principles of liberty to way we respond to that. One can quite reasonably think that vaccines and masks are helpful in the fight to limit the impacts of Covid and oppose draconian laws that constrain citizens in oppressive ways at the same time. The arguments for and against protective measures would work so much better if we went about things this way. One can also believe that anthropogenic climate change is a real thing and that gluing oneself to roads and preventing people from getting to hospitals or damaging artwork is not going to help anything. Alternatively, people can believe that neither of these things are really true but argue against them being true using evidence and reason and not accusations that anybody who thinks they are is a woke authoritarian.

Above all, it is not helpful to cluster such disparate issues together and take a blanket position on them on political grounds rooted in moral intuitions. I would urge everybody tempted to think “I strongly believe X to be true and therefore I must also believe completely unconnected Y and Z to be true as well” to try to step away from this clustering impulse. Instead, examine issues separately as warranted, have some intellectual humility about what you do and do not know and try to apply your ethics to the facts as you can best ascertain them, rather than trying to make the facts fit your ethics. By doing this, not only are you more likely to be right more often, and thus able to address issues as they actually are, but you will also be able to help resist the increasing polarisation and pressure to accept clusters of disparate beliefs that we seem to be doing with an ever-expanding number of issues. This can only help with the development of both accurate knowledge and ethical responses to that knowledge.

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“The Lord is not my shepherd, for I am not a sheep.”

If you’ve taken a position on an issue simply because “your” party has taken that position, then you can stop criticizing believers for following what their scripture or preacher says. Cause y’all are doing the exact same thing.

#Helen Pluckrose #liberalism #tribalism #political tribalism #think for yourself #herd mentality #politically homeless #moral psychology #religion is a mental illness