Are You A Gang Member? Part 2

One danger of gang membership is that as a member of the group the way you think, your template as I call it, will change. This is often called group think. This is how Wikipedia describes it: 

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.

This may be the reason for the similarity between the two major political parties. Barack Obama was nominated as the anti-war candidate. Yet the war in Afghanistan continues and the only reason the US is no longer in Iraq is that it was kicked out. Our culture masters all tend to have the same view on things, they too suffer from group think. 

GroupThink in ActionLooking back at my national gang, the US, over the centuries is rather disgusting. My natural tendency is be loyal to my gang, but looking at the lynchings, in particular one in a town in Missouri where i lived for many years that explains why there aren't many blacks there, the various wars, and the economic domination by our masters, I am loosed from that loyalty. 

Note that I call the US my gang. I really have no choice in the matter, once a Blood or a Crip, always a Blood or a Crip. It is not practical to be independent in a gang-held area in our cities' slums. It is not practical to be independent in the gang held area called America. 

But you can avoid group think. You can, to paraphrase Jesus' advice to his disciples, be in America but not of America. It is not always easy. Things as simple as commercials put you under tremendous pressure to conform and buy, buy, buy. News channels are particularly pernicious in group think. The political orientation of the station will over time gradually become your orientation. You are being programmed. 

While remaining in gang-held territory, you can leave the gang in all the areas that really matter, you can leave Babylon. I am leaving my gang membership in the US behind, join me.