82 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 18 May \ on: Groupthink as a survival strategy culture
“Should I pick dinner or die?”
My wife makes much more sense to me now. I do wonder why she doesn’t feel the threat of death when she complains about my choices though.
I'm guessing she views your choices as potentially ruinous: i.e. "Should I complain about k00b's choices or die?"
She may find being responsible for choices that influence both of your futures more daunting than you being an immediate physical threat. Why we fear responsibility might loop back around to a belief that we are incapable of individual survival.
Is indecision indicative of a fear of responsibility (some consequence in the future) or immediate rejection? This could be part of the perspective on what indecision is that I was missing when I wrote this initially.
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Why we fear responsibility might loop back around to a belief that we are incapable of individual survival.
I could see that evolving, if only because it gives those "capable of extra-individual survival" something to trade for what those "incapable of individual survival" offer. You have to cut sections out of a puzzle piece if it's meant to fit with other, partial themselves, pieces. If you're a puzzle maker, you can't be sure the puzzle will be solved as intended unless you create many such codependent partial pieces.
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Fear of Immediate rejection usually
Relates to Fear of Failure or ridicule
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