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Brad2020's avatar

Excellent. The final paragraph sums it nicely. We were taught to rely on the government, the media, the medical system, the police, etc, for everything. Now they are all telling us that something is good when we know in our hearts it is not. Trust your gut. It has helped preserve humanity for millennia. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck!

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MK's avatar

The piece missing from this is fear. Many people are conditioned from an early age to fear the reactions of other people. It's not just 'going along with the crowd', It's 'what will the crowd do to me if I object?' This is so unconscious in most people that they would strongly deny having any fear if challenged on it. But you see this time and time again in life. People do things because they are afraid of what the group might do to them if they resist. The more people who appear to agree on something, the more of a risk it is for one person to disagree. Usually there have to be reassurances or structures in place to protect them before they will take that risk. It makes sense if you think about it, that individuals alone will not risk going against the crowd.

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