George Carlin on Group Dynamics

George Carlin's critical thinking on pc language, still relevant today. I know I’m a little late with this, but I’d like to get a few licks on this totally bogus topic before it completely disappears from everyone’s consciences. First I want to be really clear about one thing: as far as other people’s feeling are concerned—especially these “victim groups”—when I deal with them as individuals, I will call them whatever they want.

Instead of changing words under the disguise of tolerance, Carlin would rather expose · the uncomfortable concepts of life and be proactive by ridiculing them and finding some sort of · joy through entertainment. If what he says is not entertaining or funny, he loses the platform that ... No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group...

Milgram found that when ... 3 people are about as influential as groups of 16. ... Cohesiveness. The more attracted individuals are to the group, the more likely they are to conform to its dictates....

McCann & Hancock, 1983). We can anticipate that individu- als who are primed with interdependence, and who activate a · motivation to ensure harmony with others, try to conform to

The ‘I’ can choose to either conform to or deviate from · the internalized expectations that are manifested in the ‘me’. Thus, the ‘I’ serves as an instrument of self-control, yet it is guided by the ‘me’. The self exists as an internal conversation between the ‘I’ and the ‘me’, and this ultimately · shapes not only an individual’s behavior but also social processes.

Someone who truly knows the realm ... of beauty, whiteness, blueness, and sharpness can be abstracted from an individual instantiation and applied · in other contexts (See for example 1985, Book VI). At the heart of Plato’s conceptions of forms · is the ability to abstract deeper universal meanings from our everyday interactions with the world · of appearances. To give an example from Carlin, someone could ...

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to. George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, singer, voice artist, and comedian, noted especially for his irreverent attitude and his observations on politics, language, psychology, and religion, as well as some taboo subjects.

Not that people are bad, but group behavior tends to unleash the worst in them. ... Carlin was a visionary. Far in advance of angry political leaders hogging the news cycle globally, he was warning about untrained or ethically unsound leaders.

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend ...