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Old 11-12-2018, 01:03 PM   #759 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko View Post
There are several general ways to deal with groupthink aka gestalt: embrace it as is or make it outlandish. A radical paint job could cause it to be so odd it swings back into uber hip.

I thought is was spelled ghestschaldt and got it confused with zietgiest for a moment
I went far beyond my college schooling about Gestalt, I sort of made things up a bit to test the waters and see if I could connect the dots.

Gestalt as I was taught was show a half a circle and people say - hey, that's half a circle. The mind knows it's half a circle because it knows what a full whole circle should look like. Kind of confusing but also stupid obvious.

Gestalt might not be the best word for what I was attempting to describe, one would think there is a better or more specific science tapped into this, "group think" as you say.

I assume there is a huge cultural divide on such thinking, eastern or remote tribal thinking is bound to be different than western culture, right?

Some people may not see a square or circle unless it is perfectly drawn, their minds so limited to "either is, either not".

Sort of like trying to figure out a typo or bad spelling, some people cannot figure out the word with even a single letter missing or misplaced.

Others can come up with 20 better words and fly right by the mistake embracing the concept being conveyed without judgement or condemnation.
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