culture

Groupthink as a survival strategy

SilkyNinja

> Additionally, I also see a lot of things in the context of death. I think it was in this video where I saw every fear reduced to the fear of death.

I've heard generally, when we consider the intentions of our actions they can boil down to one of two things: being out of a fear of punishment or an expression of joy. 

I haven't considered completely the arguments, but I want to agree that fear escalates to a fear of death and annihilation. 

Edit: I want to clarify that I do not think this a gendered issue. In another comment, I wrote:

>I believe indecision, conformity, and groupthink are behaviors that may be exhibited by any member of the species as secondary social strategies/behaviors to ensure survival by deferring power to another party. 
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>My argument highlighted “women” being indecisive about dinner because I felt that the argument may come to a reasonable conclusion rather quickly. 
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>Now, I realize it’s a relatively innocuous example of this phenomenon of indecision/agreeability (compared to the bystander effect, or how regular men became Nazis) and both stand by the example and wonder how to continue to write on the topic. 
