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That is an interesting video. I saw a video a long time ago of a similar nature where a few people were standing in a line outside a building and eventually the line just got bigger and bigger. The few people who were there in the beginning were actors just standing to see if others would join in. People who had no idea why others were waiting in this line got in line and waited for hours. It was ridiculous.
I am the type of person who does not care what others are doing and I wouldn't keep standing up just because the other people in the room were doing it. I would have asked why they were doing it. Same for the line experiment. I would have probably been curious and asked what people were waiting for, but I wouldn't have just stood in line without knowing.
I showed the video to my wife, and asked her if she would stand on hearing the noise. She said, "I'm not sure. I'd like to think I wouldn't. But maybe I'd think it was something to do with the job I was there for.... like a test of some sort. So yes, I probably would stand and sit on command."
I waited......... "Would you David?" I said, "no I wouldn't Judy. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"...........
Next time your shopping or out and about... stop and stare off into space or at the ceiling.. and just watch how many people stop and say.. what are you looking at.. raise your arm and point.. make up something.. like see that flying object or that mouse crawling.. next thing you know you will have others stopping and staring.. when you get a crowd slip away and watch from across the room or street..
I remember as a kid, a teacher at school talking about the 'herd mentality.' How most people follow the 'herd' and are frightened to appear different, or disagree with the majority opinion, even when they don't agree with it themselves.
That's both funny and scary but it reminds me of a story (I have a lot of them.)
For a very short time several years ago I owned a very beautiful British racing green older Jaguar XJ6. My brother and I took the car to a local Walmart store where I parked it way out near the edge of the parking lot so as to prevent door dings. There were no cars within 100 feet of the Jaguar when we went inside the store. We returned in about 45 minutes to find two rare sports cars parked on each side of the Jag with no other cars even close. It seemed as if the owners of the sports cars thought I knew something they didn't and they were not going to take any chances.
I remember as a kid, a teacher at school talking about the 'herd mentality.' How most people follow the 'herd' and are frightened to appear different, or disagree with the majority opinion, even when they don't agree with it themselves.
That is so true. I can compare the people I talk with (friends & others) about voting and the political issues that are of importance. When engaging and asking “them” a simple question as to “why” they support this or that they have no idea, no answer other than it’s what they believe is correct. They can’t support their belief with information or facts. If I dig a little further into the “why” they finally tell me “well you know so and so told me it’s a good reason to vote for that”. So it’s always someone else’s opinion that they will vote ~ not facts or valid information. These are sheep and uninformed ones for sure and the sheep will vote in Nov.
I first encountered descriptions of these types of experiments in the second half of the Fifties. Same back then....people don't need a reason for much of what they do it seems to me, except that other people are doing it.
Yes it sad...... They dont have thier own minds,they have been so compromised its scary!!
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