Are You Suffering From The "LEMMING EFFECT"?

Question

The power to fit in with one's social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn't count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion. Man, like lemming, behaves collectively. And it could be no other way. Naturally, the individual must be equipped with this trait. Otherwise, the smallest steps toward civilization could never have been made. Lemminghood is a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people. However, as with all natural phenomena, this tendency can be manipulated and used for harmful purposes.
It is this lemming effect which enables entire segments of a society to lose their sense of judgment all at the same time. This research paper will likely be wasted on many lemmings. For lemmings, denial is a basic psychological defense mechanism used to not only shield themselves from unpleasant realities, but also to reassure themselves that they will still fit within the acceptable range of opinion held by their peer group. Lemmings are absolutely terrified at the thought of being labeled as an "extremist" or a "conspiracy theorist". At all costs, their beliefs must always be on the "right" side of the issue and conform within the boundaries of their lemming peers. Lemmings simply cannot bear the burden of responsibility, or the discomfort, which comes with thinking independently. They'll resist any efforts to change their misguided beliefs with all their mental energy. We can try to open their closed minds and free them from their self-imposed blindness, but it’s not easy fighting the force of human nature. The chains of ideological conformity have too strong of a grip, and breaking them is a difficult task. With the limited resources at our disposal, it is next to impossible to compete with the media lemming-masters. Nevertheless, some of us must make the meager attempt, and thus lay the foundation upon which the truth might one day rise again.

There are of course those who have fallen under the hypnotic spell of the TV talking-heads and "experts" whom they worship as authority figures. Unaccustomed to thinking for themselves, no amount of truth can sway them from their preconceived prejudices. They will even deny that which they see with their own eyes. They are victims of a psychological affliction known as "the lemming effect". Lemmings are small rodents who have been known to follow each other as they charge to their deaths into raging rivers or off of cliffs. Lemminghood is an innate psychological phenomenon, present in most mammals and observable in common people as well the most sophisticated and educated elites. Lemminghood is not an intellectual phenomenon - it is psychological. As such, no socio-economic class is immune to its strangulating effect. A grant- seeking university scientist can be a lemming just as much as a fashion obsessed teen-age girl. One blindly follows the latest trendy theory while the other blindly follows the latest trendy clothing style. What's the difference? Neither can resist the force of nature.

There are those among us who do have the courage and intellectual capacity to break free of the shackles of lemminghood and accept the truth when it is presented in a clear and logical sequence. To those open minded and independent thinkers I wish to state clearly and unequivocally. I intend to set forth in this paper an overwhelming body of evidence which should forever destroy the notion that a Saudi Arabian caveman and his band of half-trained, nerdy Arab flight school attendees, orchestrated the most sophisticated terror operation in world history. The idea is utterly laughable. And yet, due to the blithering barrage of bullshit dished out by the government/media complex, "patriotic" Americans have accepted this ridiculous fairy tale with a religious conviction. As a public service to my fellow Americans, I have published the results of my research in the hopes of liberating as many people as I can from the oppressive yoke of media brainwashing and state sponsored lies. Do you have what it takes to break free?

Answer 1

No, my friend. Fortunately I am too left brained. Only thinking people with all thier mental circuitry in tact are aware of this phenomenon. Thank you for your outreach and all the best in your endeavers! Ciao!!!!

Answer 2

What a great analysis.... now if we could only turn this sharply focused diatribe against Americans and open up the rest of the world to the same analysis using the same criteria..... I wonder how America and Americans would look then?

"Lemmings simply cannot bear the burden of responsibility, or the discomfort, which comes with thinking independently."

I wonder how many "free thinkers" there are over in Syria, Iran, Lebanon etc....
Hmmm??

Answer 3

discomfort is a actual feeling, like once you smash a bone, or get a toothache, or once you bypass into exertions to have a baby, even your abdomen, once you get starvation pains. it really is all linked for your nerves, which act as sensors and deliver messages for your mind, and think ofyou've got were given the actual reaction. suffering has similarities, yet not an similar project. Say you've a toothache, it somewhat is the discomfort area of it, even if the suffering may come once you won't be able to bypass to the dentist to have it fixed, and think ofyou've got were given to wade through with the discomfort, and in all likelihood the an infection. There are different ranges of suffering as well, like once you lose someone you loved very a lot, the discomfort of that loss motives your heart to undergo this, and it may take a lengthy time period to heal, or by no skill heal in any respect. suffering takes position over a lengthy era of time, or what can look an eternity. wish this helps, sturdy success.

Answer 4

americans were lemmings but now they appear to start waking up. however, knowing them, they could quickly turn back around and go over that cliff.