groupThink: ThinkProgress.org and Indie 500

Sunday, February 06, 2005

ThinkProgress.org and Indie 500

I'd just like to point a new progressive resource available on the internet - ThinkProgress.org. ThinkProgress.org is the brainchild of Judd Legam and Kristy Harvey, from the Center for American Progress. You might recognize Judd Legam and Kristy Harvey as regular contributors on the Al Franken Show. This website represents everything that I am fighting for and believe in for the future of America. ThinkProgress.org has earned a permanent place on the groupThink blogroll.

You probably noticed that the groupThink blogroll suddenly grew quite substantially. groupThink is now proud member of the indie 500 - a group of independent progressive/liberal blogs teaming up to fight for a more progressive society in America. I encourage you to check out some of the other blogs on this list.

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In our modern society, with all it's comfort and convinience, it is far too easy to fall into a pattern of complacency. To borrow a term that was recently brandished by the 9/11 commission, I'd like to label this condition "Societal groupThink".

To quote the Wikipedia:

"Groupthink is a term coined by psychologist Irving Janis in 1972 to describe one process by which a group can make bad or irrational decisions. In a groupthink situation, each member of the group attempts to conform his or her opinions to what they believe to be the consensus of the group. This results in a situation in which the group ultimately agrees on an action which each member might normally consider to be unwise.

Janis' original definition of the term was "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action." The word groupthink itself was intended to be reminiscent of George Orwell's coinages (such as doublethink and duckspeak) from the fictional language Newspeak, which he portrayed in his ideological novel Nineteen Eighty-Four."

I'd like to challenge you to re-examine your fundemental understanding; to re-think that which you know; to not accept the status-quo.

: Name: markh100; Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Sunday, February 06, 2005

ThinkProgress.org and Indie 500

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