Groupishness
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Purpose:
Question(s):
Information:
Inference(s):
Concept(s):
Assumption(s):
Implication(s):
Point(s) of View:
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Purpose:
To pursue group interests at the expense of the rights, needs, and desires of those outside the group.
Question(s):
How can we as a group achieve our group purposes (without having to examine our beliefs or change in any fundamental way)?
Information:
Information that enables the group to achieve its purposes and getwhat it wants.
Inference(s):
The group continually comes to conclusions that serve, or seem to serve, its agenda.
Concept(s):
The concept of group superiority and group privilege.
Assumption(s):
Our group should be so placed in the world as to get what we want without having to change in any fundamental way, or to consider the rights and needs of others.
Implication(s):
By deliberately pursuing group agendas and ignoring the effects of our actions on others, we are most likely to get what we want.
Point(s) of View:
Seeing our group as the center of the world and everything and everyone else as a means to getting what we want.
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