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Even asking where are you from was a micro aggression implies you are noticing one's race. turning young adults from stunted brats ideal for therapy instead of preparing them for real life college reverts them to infancy swapping destiny for depends that releases these wimps into the wild. the only acceptable group thinking should be at a puppy rave. ♪ >> this emotionalism is eating its way through politics as well. >> we haant an opportunity. >> ask him. (indiscernible) >> if you do not listen to her

Blame. group thinking also takes over when the people affected or interested tend to gather, talk to one another, or communicate in isolation. their convictions tend to get hardened. if everyone you talk to and listen to and watch believes that president obama is hiding his birth certificate, you get even more sure about the secret plot over time. the most important overriding reason, however, is that we human beings don't like to believe that things happen for arbitrary reasons. we search for a pattern. and if we see one, no matter how implausible, we prefer that to the idea of randomness. he...

Here. and you get into a group thinking, you all talk to each other like you're on a common effort. you know what you're doing here, you're putting on a pretty good television show about politics. when did they decide they were going to war, michael? when did everybody know -- the theme here is, stop arguing about it, we're going. >> nobody knows the answer to that question. you talk to every senior person in the bush administration who was there at the time. they all say it was never clear when the decision was made. there was never a meeting. there was never an actual breakpoint. >> isn't th...

I'm part of the organization here. and you get into a group thinking, you all talk to each other like you're on a common effort. you know what you're doing here, you're putting on a pretty good television show about politics. when did they decide they were going to war, michael? when did everybody know -- the theme here is, stop arguing about it, we're going. >> nobody knows the answer to that question. you talk to every senior person in the bush administration who was there at the time. they all say it was never clear when the decision was made. there was never a meeting. there was never an a...

And in which the sort of natural dynamics of group thinking in a tightly knit administration have taken over, can it really be the case if they can benefit from bringing in new people with new voices and new experiences and a fresh perspective? a lot of people i talk to, some of them former members of the administration, think at this point that it is a big problem, that at this point the president needs to get out of his comfort zone in some of these appointments particularly on the economics side and bring in folks with a new perspective. yet that's balanced by the fact that they don't think...