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MichaelVail
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Posted: Thu 2009-11-12 22:56
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I have a real distaste for cookie cutter people.
People who lack any real individuality, they talk alike, dress alike and make every effort to mimic the leaders of their peer group. Just the other day I came out of a theater and saw a group of 10 people who all wore nautica shorts, striped shirts and same colored flip flops.
They were grouped together in a cluster and were very happy with themselves.
I know that the educational system in America strips out any forms of individuality out of the kids and their teacher is now their social worker, psychologist and agent for social change. Hopefully even those who spew out trash pop culture nonsense around the water cooler at work have something that differentiates them from others no matter how small, even if they hide it from others.
Back in the 80's after reading books from Orwell, Huxley family, H.G. Wells and learning about the Tavistock Institute I found it very essential to be my own man. I am sure the Wilhelm Wundt/Pavlovian psychology works on me as well as anyone else but I resist it in my own way. The real question is what happens when all individuality and personality is stripped from all of us? Many futurists think that with the advent of the internet and strides in biotechnology the world's population will be come one single intelligence.
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“Technological convergence could become the framework for human convergence—the twenty-first century could end in world peace, universal prosperity, and evolution to a higher level of compassion and accomplishment,” Moreover, “humanity will become like a single, transcendent nervous system, an interconnected ‘brain’ based in new core pathways of society”—a state which some contributors call “hive mind.” -The New Atlantis
"In our dreams…people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science...The task we set before ourselves is very simple…we will organize children…and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way." General Education Board - Occasional Letter Number One, 1906
"Groups can also evolve into adaptive units with respect to cognitive activities such as decision making, memory, and learning. As one example, decision-making is a process that involves identifying a problem, imagining a number of alternative solutions, evaluating the alternatives, and making the final decision on how to behave. Each of these activities can be performed by an individual as a self-contained cognitive unit but might be performed even better by groups of individuals interacting in a coordinated fashion." Sloan Wilson, 1997
"Ah consensus … the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?" Margaret Thatcher
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Roderic
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Posted: Sat 2009-11-28 05:02
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| carldiesturmer wrote: |
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| There are always those that are leaders, and those that are followers. There are also those who are followers, but do not wish to appear as such. It is the way of humanity. |
You associated yourself with mentally ill mepie, that's a tough act to follow in what 'sane leadership' is concerned |
Must his name infect every topic? I don't think I've spoken to him in over a year, nor do I really care to speak to him again.
Not that it matters, I suppose. This forum has the approximate livelihood of a corpse; I wonder why I even came to post that message. There is nothing more of interest to discuss now.
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carldiesturmer
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Posted: Sat 2009-11-28 06:10
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| Politics: Oligarchical Collectivist |
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| Mutual Tools or Supreme Arseholeness? |
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| Roderic wrote: |
| carldiesturmer wrote: |
| Roderic wrote: |
| There are always those that are leaders, and those that are followers. There are also those who are followers, but do not wish to appear as such. It is the way of humanity. |
You associated yourself with mentally ill mepie, that's a tough act to follow in what 'sane leadership' is concerned |
Must his name infect every topic? I don't think I've spoken to him in over a year, nor do I really care to speak to him again.
Not that it matters, I suppose. This forum has the approximate livelihood of a corpse;& I wonder why I even came to post that message. There is nothing more of interest to discuss now*. |
Don't change the topic, you did it, be responsible.
* That's your opinion, evidently you are severely underinformed.
& Euthenasia for walking zombie is a bullet to the head or decapitation, but you didn't figure it out because it was a convenient, like Mephie thought you were also a tool of his 
How's the internet party, run out of funds to host it? 
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