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| The Madness Of Groupthink |
| 2022-08-12 |
| [ZeroHedge] But what about the internal psychological processes at play within the United States HHS policy making group? The group which has been directly responsible for the amazingly unscientific and counterproductive decisions concerning bypassing normal bioethical, regulatory and clinical development norms to expedite genetic vaccine products (“Operation Warp Speed”), suppressing early treatment with repurposed drugs, mask and vaccine mandates, lockdowns, school closures, social devision, defamation and intentional character assassination of critics, and a wide range of massively disruptive and devastating economic policies. All have lived through these events, and have become aware of the many lies and misrepresentations (subsequently contradicted by data) which have been walked back or historically revised by Drs. Fauci, Collins, Birx, Walensky, Redfield, and even Mr. Biden. Is there a body of scholarship and academic literature which can help make sense of the group dynamics and clearly dysfunctional decision making which first characterized the “coronavirus taskforce” under Vice President Pence, and then continued in a slightly altered form through the Biden administration? During the early 1970s, as the (tragically escalated) Viet Nam War foreign policy fiasco was starting to wind down, an academic psychologist focusing on group dynamics and decision making was struck by parallels between his own research findings and the group behaviors involved in the Bay of Pigs foreign policy fiasco documented in A thousand days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur Schlesinger. Intrigued, he began to further investigate the decision making involved in this case study, as well as the policy debacles of the Korean War, Pearl Harbor, and the escalation of the Viet Nam War. He also examined and developed case studies involving what he saw as major United States Government policy triumphs. These included the management of the Cuban missile crisis, and development of the Marshall Plan. On the basis of these case studies, examined in light of current group dynamic psychology research, he developed what a seminal book which became a cautionary core text for most students of Political Science. The result was Victims of Groupthink: A psychological study of foreign-policy decisions and fiascoes by Author Irving Janis (Houghton Mifflin Company July 1, 1972). He observed that:
This process can cause a group to make risky or immoral decisions. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 ^ never going to 'win' a war that you allow the enemy to have a sanctuary and supply base in Oh...that's history! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-12 11:27 |
| #3 ^ never going to 'win' a war that you allow the enemy to have a sanctuary and supply base in Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-08-12 09:25 |
| #2 Why Aren’t Our Generals Learning? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-12 08:25 |
| #1 Biden’s DOJ Knows Exactly What To Do To His Political Opponents Without Needing To Be Told |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-12 08:22 |