Wednesday, January 24, 2018
24/Serial
If I had stayed a psych major I probably could have written a paper on what happened that night. It illustrated so clearly how people manage to believe what they want to believe, no matter how obvious the flaws in what's presented to them. It also demonstrated how a belief can spread throughout a group, affecting even those who don't want to believe it at all. An interesting psychological experiment, yes, but at the time all we knew is that our crazy scheme succeeded beyond our wildest expectations. Until it didn't.
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I'm enjoying and somewhat astonished at, these stories of your youth, Susan.
ReplyDeleteYeah, me too, Dona.
DeleteDid you get Trump elected as a joke? What year is this?
ReplyDeleteIt was 1961, so Trump would have been 15--still studying racist practices under the tutelage of his father.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, as I wrote this post I realized the lessons could easily apply to Trump's election (and continuing support) as well as the rise of Hitler.
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