George Carlin’s Position on People and Groups

The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don’t belong; it doesn’t include me, and it never has. No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

George Carlin, Preface to "3 x Carlin" (2008)

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Asch Conformity Experiments Confirmed

STEVE STEWART-WILLIAMS:

Not everything you were taught in intro psych was false! Solomon Asch’s famous conformity experiments have once again successfully replicated. For the classic length-of-line experiment, participants conformed 33% of the time: very close to the original rate. For political opinions, they conformed 38% of the time. Link.

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Just Say No to Tribes

Just because I don't like Coke doesn't mean that I like Pepsi. People need to take a deep breath and step out of their tribes. Doing this will add 40 points to their IQ scores.

[Added May 18 2024]

Being in a tribe is mighty potent hallucinogen. How potent? Monty Python & friends illustrate with this Eric the Viking skit:

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