Joe speaks out

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(06-07-2020, 11:15 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Groupthink at its finest (worst?).  You see stuff like this all the time from people who have no reason to act the way they do.  There are videos of a guy at some music festival drunkenly trying to walk across the top of a line of port-o-johns and the crowd responded by pelting him with a barrage of beer cans heavy with liquid.  Would one person do that?  No, but a group...hell yea, join the gang and throw!  Another one involved a different (I assume) drunk idiot climbing on top of a pole or post or something over a street while people were outside celebrate/rioting over something like a sports win or some such.  Numerous objects were thrown at this guy, and I think a bottle hit him and I don't recall if he fell but the point is that in a group something as serious as grievous assault or even attempted manslaughter is just all in good fun.

Groups of people are just not so awesome.

As Agent Kay said in MIB

Quote:A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

I love this quote because the flat earthers have since come back.