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See [[w:groupthink]]
See [[w:groupthink]]
Groupthink is sometimes misleadingly referred as [[community values]]: there are no "community values".  [[Community|Communities]] are compromises of values created to achieve bodily protections.  The community shares no values other than protecting its own bodies.


This is relevant to [[Consumerium]] in many ways, see [http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Groupthink what links here]
This is relevant to [[Consumerium]] in many ways, see [http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Groupthink what links here]


One way to control groupthink is to steer it into [[faction]]s that can at least have sharp differences with each other.  In [[democracy]] this means dividing into [[political party]] structures that debate the actual policy while a [[bureaucracy]] implements the policy only of the [[ruling party]].
One way to control groupthink is to steer it into [[faction]]s that can at least have sharp differences with each other.  In [[democracy]] this means dividing into [[political party]] structures that debate the actual policy while a [[bureaucracy]] implements the policy only of the [[ruling party]].