Life, Society, and Philosophy
The Thought Process Behind Collective Bad Decisions
Digging beneath our facade of sanity to uncover collective delusion.
Things seem more divisive these days, especially where I live in New York with grumblings of illegal immigrants, protests for Palestine, and Trump’s ongoing trial, all of which occur within 2 miles of my apartment. Social media posts make it worse, where shameless opinionated voices are amplified to stir up emotions of victimhood and anger.
I am sleeping without earplugs in a swirling eye of US chaos. But like the eye of a hurricane, it is calm in my domain. It is calm in my mind and personal life. Because I think I understand. I think I finally get why these crowds of humans act the way they do.
I’ve written (almost two years ago!) at length about root cause issues and a whole bunch of negative “-isms” to help explain what is wrong with us and the effects of young adults giving up everywhere. But today I’m delving further into the thought process to link several paradoxes and processes.
