groupThink: Men's Ice Hockey Olympic Quarterfinal Schedule

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Men's Ice Hockey Olympic Quarterfinal Schedule

I had trouble finding the schedule for tomorrow's lineup, so I thought I'd share it with you. Schedule courtesy of Sports Illustrated

10:35 AM ..... Sweden vs. Switzerland

11:35 AM ..... United States vs. Finland

2:35 PM ...... Canada vs. Russia

3:35 PM ...... Czech Republic vs. Slovakia

Michael Farber from SI.com previews the matchups here.

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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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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Men's Ice Hockey Olympic Quarterfinal Schedule

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