WAKE THE F&*%$#K UP PEOPLE......POLITICS ARE NOT REAL.....YOU ARE

Escape panic characteristics

Individuals attempt to move faster than normal.
Interactions between individuals become physical.
Exits become arched and clogged.
Escape is slowed by fallen individuals serving as obstacles.
Individuals display a tendency towards mass or copied behavior.
Alternative or less used exits are overlooked.[3]


Herd behavior in human societies

The philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche were among the first to criticize what they referred to as "the crowd" (Kierkegaard) and "herd morality" and the "herd instinct" (Nietzsche) in human society. Modern psychological and economic research has identified herd behavior in humans to explain the phenomena of large numbers of people acting in the same way at the same time. The British surgeon Wilfred Trotter popularized the "herd behavior" phrase in his book, Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1914). In The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen explained economic behavior in terms of social influences such as "emulation," where some members of a group mimic other members of higher status. In "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (1903), early sociologist George Simmel referred to the "impulse to sociability in man", and sought to describe "the forms of association by which a mere sum of separate individuals are made into a 'society' ". Other social scientists explored behaviors related to herding, such as Freud (crowd psychology), Carl Jung (collective unconscious), and Gustave Le Bon (the popular mind). Swarm theory observed in non-human societies is a related concept and is being explored as it occurs in human society.

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Perception is reality.

For those who perceive the world in their way, their reality will differ from yours.

Get over yourself.

thats exactly my point...
most realities are false...

when i was a very young child, i figured out a thing i called 'isness.' it was my philosophy of the world as perceived through being in and observing nature as a child.

later, i discovered there was another name for it: zen.

in nature there is no judgement. it simply IS.

Wooord up OP !!!

Well said...

Thanks OP, appreciate your passion and understand precisely what you are attempting to convey.

The answer is very simple.

Denial.

Most red-blooded Americans simply can't believe their time in sun is just about up.

So they cling to politics, as if the bi-partisan consensus to deny and repress reality can actually keep it from happening.

And the need to place blame, not on the true culprits (as much as there are any - this over complex house of cards is really beyond anyone's control) but on their preferred scapegoat - around here that's usually the dreaded liberals, minorities, and poor people they can't stop fantasizing about.