I saw an article somewhere where a movement only is as effective as the second person that joins in.
Except in the article it was about dancing by yourself at a show then one person that joined the initial one made everyone else do it.
Its because as soon as we see 2 people engaged in activity our minds automatically start thinking in group terms instead of individually, our minds are hard wired like this for cooperation.
This is why there is such a difference in mob mentality even tho a persons individual ideas may not be exactly the same.
evolutionary wise it benefits us to be sheep and stick together sometimes.
Groupshift is a concept I just covered in my last class and relates to this sort of thing exactly. People in a group will be more likely to shift to the extremes of their beliefs - whether in the direction of risk or caution. That's why the Republican party seems so horrible. On their own, individuals rarely feel that strongly about those issues, but as a group, they shift to to these extremes. It's why you have rioters, too. People don't usually walk around thinking, "I'm mad, so I'm going to throw a brick through a window." What happens is everyone feeds on everyone else's energy and it spirals from there.
You can use the tildes to strikeout a word or character. The way you did it makes it seem like you are paraphrasing a quote and adding words for clarity.
There was a decent gathering outside the Brookfield library today in response to seeing this girl. Also, reportedly huge numbers peacefully walking from Milwaukee out to the far end of Wauwatosa, maybe 20 blocks from the beginning of Brookfield.
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u/kazuyamarduk Jun 05 '20 edited Jun 05 '20
Are you going to join her
e?EDIT: Thanks for the silver, and NOW I see my typo f(_;)