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>>12139083
Did you mean base?

>>12139068
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk

>mfw the inception is complete

>>12139289
Why are we often suspicious of virtue? Why are we cynical and skeptical of people who are supposedly good, kind, even heroic? That’s just the image they project–we reason–but behind that façade they are just as self-interested and wicked as the worst of us. Their apparent virtue is just their way of justifying and masking of their self-serving hunger for power. In a curious democratization of baseness, we don’t believe that virtue is possible, and suspect the worse motives as soon as a model person is raised up. It is a curious process, which makes Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler end up looking not much different from each other. And this begs the question: how did we get here?
See more: http://evangelicalfocus.com/magazine/4013/The_end_of_virtue

When your foundation is a roof and you've got no support, the world always seems to be crashing down while you walk towards the chandler.

>>12139068

This is a masterpiece.

>>12139333
Enlighten us oh master, friend. Joey lunges in layers and layers of others clothes. He is base, and he is also good. What would I do without you hanging above me, form of formlessness. >>12139333
>>12139333

Nevertheless, outside research psychology and sociology, wider culture has come to detect groupthink (somewhat fuzzily defined) in observable situations, for example:

" [...] critics of Twitter point to the predominance of the hive mind in such social media, the kind of groupthink that submerges independent thinking in favor of conformity to the group, the collective"[13]
"[...] leaders often have beliefs which are very far from matching reality and which can become more extreme as they are encouraged by their followers. The predilection of many cult leaders for abstract, ambiguous, and therefore unchallengeable ideas can further reduce the likelihood of reality testing, while the intense milieu control exerted by cults over their members means that most of the reality available for testing is supplied by the group environment. This is seen in the phenomenon of 'groupthink', alleged to have occurred, notoriously, during the Bay of Pigs fiasco."[14]
"Groupthink by Compulsion [...] [G]roupthink at least implies voluntarism. When this fails, the organization is not above outright intimidation. [...] In [a nationwide telecommunications company], refusal by the new hires to cheer on command incurred consequences not unlike the indoctrination and brainwashing techniques associated with a Soviet-era gulag."[15]

>>12139068

>>12139083
I used to do this as a kid
Do I have ass burgers?