Comments on: BLACK FRIDAY http://www.ginandtacos.com/2008/11/28/black-friday/ OPIATE OF THE ASSES Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kdzgo http://www.ginandtacos.com/2008/11/28/black-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-12817 Kdzgo Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:43:34 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=1196#comment-12817 What strikes me as interesting from a theoretical standpoint is that most every problem in the world could be solved if we could get a large enough group (as in more believing than not in the population affected) to take a certain action. If enough people act as usual and spend money during the holidays, the problem would correct. But because people are only really reliant on themselves in that kind of dynamic, and they don't believe enough people will follow through, they wont either. When everyone has that attitude, it becomes self-fulfilling. It's not that I don't understand the action or even wouldn't do it myself; it's that it's unfortunate that there isn't some way to do it. With enough people we can do anything, but if enough personal risk is involved, you can never get enough. That kind of thing always interested me. I hope that wasn't too cyclical or hard to understand. What strikes me as interesting from a theoretical standpoint is that most every problem in the world could be solved if we could get a large enough group (as in more believing than not in the population affected) to take a certain action. If enough people act as usual and spend money during the holidays, the problem would correct.

But because people are only really reliant on themselves in that kind of dynamic, and they don't believe enough people will follow through, they wont either. When everyone has that attitude, it becomes self-fulfilling. It's not that I don't understand the action or even wouldn't do it myself; it's that it's unfortunate that there isn't some way to do it. With enough people we can do anything, but if enough personal risk is involved, you can never get enough.

That kind of thing always interested me. I hope that wasn't too cyclical or hard to understand.

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