How Compulsive Conformity Can Get People Killed

[Kamaji]

How Compulsive Conformity Can Get People Killed

Two dynamics are at work: the conformity impulse and the manipulation of that impulse by power brokers to promote the illusion that their view is the majority opinion.

BY STELLA MORABITO
MARCH 30, 2022

Our survival instincts are going to get us all killed.

I’m specifically referring to our hard-wired conformity impulse.  That’s what causes us to go along with politically correct absurdities like pronoun protocols.  It also causes people to join mobs, and to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid at the command of a cult leader.

In primitive environments, the herd instinct serves as a means of survival.  If some sense danger and rush to safety, all follow.  But how does such a conformity impulse work in a high-tech society like ours?  It doesn’t really.

Sure, a certain level of conformity is normal for a society to function.  But an unchecked conformity impulse in a technological society like ours acts more like slow-motion suicide than a survival mechanism.  We think we’re saving ourselves by conforming, but in the long run the opposite is true.

In fact, our instinct to conform has become a weapon tyrants use to control us by threatening social isolation for those who don’t obey.  This is especially the case when a monopoly of tech overlords can broadcast propaganda to the herd, instantly and globally.  In such cases there is no “wisdom of crowds.”  When the masses obey the propaganda to avoid social punishment, they only prop up propaganda and thereby spread social turmoil.

Propagandists Manipulate our Conformity Impulse
We should be aghast at the high level of American conformity to the demands of propagandists:  Mask your toddler!  He’s a girl and she’s a guy!  Mind your pronouns!  He’s a white supremacist!  And so on.  Nobody is safe if we can’t challenge the truth of what the elites who presume to rule us are saying.

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The Conformity Impulse Is Juvenile and Deadly
Teenage girls provide an especially clear-cut example of how the conformity dynamic works.  Too many of them are notorious for engaging in relational aggression, a type of bullying that damages someone’s social status, causing others to shun and isolate the victim.  This type of aggression is inherent to mob behavior.

For example, pundit Kathleen Parker’s recent hit job on Ginni Thomas in The Washington Post is infused with a smug little middle school flavor. It includes a huge dose of projection, such as Parker’s hallucination that Thomas has a sense of self-importance, when it’s obviously the Parker girl who’s infected with egotism.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/30/how-compulsive-conformity-can-get-people-killed/

[Free Vulcan]

Part of the problem is we've become a society of virtue signaling poseurs.

Americans 'rebel' over the most insignificant things, but conform with things that should make the run the other way like they are on fire. All in the name of feeling virtuous and engaging in display culture.

We have confused holy truth with holier-than-thou moral superiority, and we let these collectivist charlatans play us like a fiddle.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Abusing pronouns is not cool.  Militant grammarians are mad as hell.

Grammar is the structure of language.  Without grammatical structure and correctness, documents lose the ability to communicate thoughts, ideas, and laws across many generations.  To attack grammar is to attack the system by which we store and transfer knowledge.

The pronoun abusers are attacking Western critical thinking and logic.  Disregarding the structure of language is to alter the structure of thought and speech.