
Groupthink
A Study in Self Delusion
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Ric Jerrom
In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and best-selling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today.
With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory and to the writings of George Orwell from whose ‘newspeak’ the word was adapted, Booker sheds new light on the remarkable – and worrying – effects of ‘groupthink’ and its influence on our society.
Booker defines the three rules of groupthink: the adoption of a common view or belief not based on objective reality; the establishment of a consensus of right-minded people, an ‘in group’; and the need to treat the views of anyone who questions the belief as wholly unacceptable. He shows how various interest groups, journalists and even governments in the 21st century have subscribed to this way of thinking, with deeply disturbing results.
As Booker shows, such behaviour has led to a culture of fear, heralded by countless examples throughout history, from Revolutionary Russia to Napoleonic France and Hitler’s Germany. In the present moment it has caused countless errors in judgment and the division of society into highly polarised, oppositional factions. From the behaviour of the controversial Rhodes Must Fall movement to the sacking of James Damore of Google, society’s attitudes towards gender equality, the Iraq war and the ‘European Dream’, careers and lives have been lost as those in the ‘in-group’ police society with their new form of puritanism.
As Booker argues, only by examining its underlying causes can we understand the sinister power of groupthink which permeates all aspects of our lives.
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I liked the examples but felt something was missing. It wasn’t what it was expecting
Not what I expected
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One half of the contempt and 2D out group derogation (oppressor bigot, science denier, transphobe, racist!) that is a key feature of our times is evident in the 1 star reviews. That contempt and dehumanization of the other is literally what this book is about. I would very much like to write a corollary book or essay for those people explaining the phenomena. It would be met with 1 star reviews and derogation of it's own. (globalist, soy boy, SJW!, Satanist, TDS, pedophile, etc.)
The concept of Groupthink is a critical concept for us to understand and this book is a classic but some will know automatically to reject it based on their ingroup affiliation with the 1 star reviews. Unfortunately, this may be the people who need it most.
I can't recommend this book enough to both sides, realizing it'll be impossible subject matter for a small minority who do not wish for this kind of scrutiny of their sacred values.
Read the One Star Reviews for Groupthink
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Speaker cadence is a bit hard to follow
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Facile journalistic fatuity
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Devolves into right-wing belly-aching.
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Right Wing Propaganda
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Disappointed
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