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There are those who want to relinquish power, believing that others are more capable and therefore qualified than themselves to run aspects of their life or world for them. This could be ignorance, this could be laziness, this could be willful. Fnord is a related hesitation. Or I could be completely wrong.

I tend to additionally attribute fnord to concepts of doublethink and doublespeak.

See also:

• Zen

• /tag/fnord

  • /tag/fnord+writing

Stuff ∞

• What.is.fnord

• Fnord is the last word in the MIT Physics Department Oct 25, 1985 “paper airplane” hack.

  • Nightwork – (2003 book), “by” T. F. Peterson pg 114.

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I’ve wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it and yet we didn’t see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned, perhaps, into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – (1974 book), by Robert M. Pirsig (Part I)

Further reading ∞

• Appeal to belief / Bandwagon fallacy / Argumentum ad numerum
• Abilene paradox
• Consensus reality
• Crowd psychology
• Diffusion of responsibility
• Doublethink
• False consensus effect
• Group polarization
• Group-serving bias
• Herd behaviour / Group behaviour
• Groupthink / Hive mind
• Informational cascade
• Mob mentality
• Mob rule
• Pack journalism
• Peer pressure
• Social comparison theory
• Spiral of silence

• Culture of fear

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• Stanford prison experiment