In the United States right now, the burning issue of the day has become the question regarding whether or not we should attack Iraq. Everybody has an opinion about this. Thus, making this is a very polarized issue. What I am concerned about is not the answer to this question, but rather the processes that occur in people consciousness that give this question intense emotional energy. I believe that if we back away from the issue itself and look at how humans approach issues like this we can gain some insight into the way in which groups of humans become influenced by forces completely out of their individual control.
First, objectively as possible lets describe what is happing in idividual peoples' consciousness. Most Americans are recieving sensory information regarding this proposed war from television, newspapers, the internet and conversation. With the exception of the internet (and possibly conversation) only a very small number of people are creating and delievering this information that many people depend upon to make decesions regarding this issue. Furthermore, the people that are making the articles or news reports that ***
Posted by Elijah at February 27, 2003 08:15 AM