Choose your group carefully—you will conform: Rationalizing Animal #7

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” ― Henry David Thoreau

William H. White, who coined "groupthink" in 1952, said, "We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity — it is, after all, a perennial failing of mankind. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity — an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right and good as well."

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