One of mankind’s greatest truths is one of the first things we’re told about ourselves in all of our Holy Books … if you tell us we can’t have something … we want it. We want it so badly that we’ll tear our whole world apart to get it.
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Roxanne Tellier: IRL – Tweets and Shaming
Posted in Opinion with tags #HasJustineLandedYet, Africa. Internet, angry mob, “cruel and unusual punishment” In Real Life, Benjamin Rush, Bob Segarini, censorship, Criticism, DBAWIS, Delaware, f Justine Sacco, fallible, free speech, Grammar Nazis, hive mind, IRL, Jon Ronson, June Tangney, Kate Harding, Neanderthal, public shaming, Roxanne Tellier, snark, Social Media, tweets, Twitter, unfriend, United States, verbal attacks on July 5, 2015 by segarini
If you are very lucky, you have never, and will never, be in a situation where a group of ordinary people suddenly turn into an angry mob. It’s like the flip of a switch. In a heartbeat, centuries of evolution dissolve, and the hive mind kicks in. Whether you are part of the mob, the object of the mob’s outrage, or are simply caught up in the emotional frenzy, the mob mentality overrules the civilized mind and transforms perfectly ordinary people into raging, club swinging Neanderthals with a single purpose – destruction.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 