(October 10, 2014 at 9:58 am)Deidre32 Wrote: True and great points but I would rather be alone than stand with a herd that I don't respect. "Being liked" isn't enough for me like it once was, even just a few years ago. Yes, we as humans want to be accepted but not if I have to pretend to be someone I'm not. Most herds have core leaders and the rest are their groupies. Lol No thanks.
Like I said, if you agree with the herd on a genuine level, great but if you don't, its best to just fly solo. My opinion. :-)
Yes, that's a part of it. We will not want to be a part of every crowd, especially in modern times with such populous societies, where we have a choice of who we associate with. And some people and groups are so offensive to our ideals that we easily avoid them. It's just that most of our interaction with people and groups is driven subconsciously; when we are aware of why we want or don't want to be part of a group, we are much more decisive and clear. But most of the time we're being led around by an application that is... chaotically programmed.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
