SleepyBean

One of the most telling and depressing phenomena in social psychology was elucidated by the Asch Conformity Experiment. First conducted in the '50s, the experiment sat participants in a room with a number of (unbeknownst to the participant) actors. The participant was shown a card with a line drawn on it. They were then shown a number of lines on a screen. The lines were of different lengths: A, B, and C. They had to state aloud which of the lines on the screen matched the line on the card. During the test, the actors were told to all give the same incorrect answer. If Line B matched the length of the line on the card, all the actors said Line C was the correct answer. The test: how many people were prepared to deny reality to fit in with the consensus position. The study found that 75% of participants - all educated to at least undergraduate degree - conformed with the incorrect majority at least once during the test. Only 25% of participants refused to conform at all. More than a third of all answers prioritised conformity over reality. Reading about this formed one of the most important planks of my worldview: the more a position relies on social enforcement, the less sound it is as an argument. This exposes an underlying truth that explains repeated outbreaks of fanaticism among human populations on all manner of topics, from Israel to Mao to the Moonies. It also explains why radical movements deploy so many of the same tactics to achieve said fanaticism, and why celebrities are so strongly pressured into taking political stances. It is about moral fervour. The more people you can find to repeat a line, the more people will conform to that line, regardless of its basis in reality. And, sadly, the goodness in humans - the desire to be agreeable - makes many of us particularly susceptible to this sort of manipulation.

I promise you’re not even slightly prepared for how INSANE this story is. Not only has the town they’re in not had a single COVID case in months but it was originally founded as a commie bar for lesbians where paying was optional. Eventually almost no one paid the cover fee (predictable) and 2 of the original owners left. The full time mask requirement left them almost no business. One of the owners left to go to CLOWN COLLEGE. The drama here is that they’re making masks optional for ONE NIGHT OF THE WEEK! In a town with NO COVID cases…. I mean it would be nuts if there was COVID too but how are they so delusional that they think they need to mask with zero cases!?! The one remaining owner is living in her car because the commie business model is failing so terribly. She can’t pay herself or her employees. Her detractors, who have been bar patrons, have been attacking her as well for sometimes forgetting to use alt text on social media posts, which they call ableist and dangerous. 😂 Some responses she got to ONE night where masking would be optional: "PEOPLE LIKE YOU KILL DISABLED PEOPLE" "YOU’RE COMPLICIT IN A MASS DISABLING EVENT" "I HOPE YOUR VENUE GETS FIREBOMBED" So… 😂😂😂 Next she brings in a mediator to hear out the crazy people. The meeting goes off the rails almost immediately because the mediator (who’s a therapist) is White. They then said she was a mandatory reporter who could force hospitalize them. They said the mediator made them feel "wildly unsafe." The owner is 50k in debt on the business loan and living in her car. When she brought this up they said she was spilling White Tears for sympathy which they found "incredibly racist." The meeting went on like this for nearly 4 hours. Long story short: these leftists are literally insane. So insane that clown college seems like the most intelligent move in this deranged story. 🤡 You can never let them have any power.