People flow like water
One good example to give you takes place in a lunch cafeteria. You have two piles of trays and a fork.
People come to take food and the first thing they do is to grab a tray to start loading up their lunch (are there still lunch places where you get service to the table or even to the counter). Now there are two identical stacks of trays but there is a slight difference. On the top of the other, there resides a fork. Result?
People take trays from the pile that does not have the fork. It goes on and on until trays are out from the othe pile or until somebody who is not like the rest of us comes along and by using personal initiative removes the fork.
What do people fear here? First they just use the other stack because they avoid trouble of removing the fork. However, very quickly it turns into pattern of thought that there is something wrong with the second stack. Nobody has taken any trays from there and it has A FORK on it. Dubious. Make the safe choice. Carry on.
Cults work in similar manner. No matter what are the backgrounds of the people associated with the cult - they are all sheeps. These people choose the path that is the easiest for them. The reasons why they choose to do something is the mental reward, not financial. Boost the selfesteem and you get loyal followers.
If you get few people to act in a way of your choosing, it is so much easier to reason with the rest. This is the reason, why you can never set up a following just on your own.
People come to take food and the first thing they do is to grab a tray to start loading up their lunch (are there still lunch places where you get service to the table or even to the counter). Now there are two identical stacks of trays but there is a slight difference. On the top of the other, there resides a fork. Result?
People take trays from the pile that does not have the fork. It goes on and on until trays are out from the othe pile or until somebody who is not like the rest of us comes along and by using personal initiative removes the fork.
What do people fear here? First they just use the other stack because they avoid trouble of removing the fork. However, very quickly it turns into pattern of thought that there is something wrong with the second stack. Nobody has taken any trays from there and it has A FORK on it. Dubious. Make the safe choice. Carry on.
Cults work in similar manner. No matter what are the backgrounds of the people associated with the cult - they are all sheeps. These people choose the path that is the easiest for them. The reasons why they choose to do something is the mental reward, not financial. Boost the selfesteem and you get loyal followers.
If you get few people to act in a way of your choosing, it is so much easier to reason with the rest. This is the reason, why you can never set up a following just on your own.
posted by mob at 12:31 AM
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