GROUP DYNAMICS ;-)
Three groups were asked to fix the worlds problems.
Here are the results from the recordings I made:
Group one:
One: Oh, the world is bad!
Everyone: Yes, it's really bad for us!
One: And it's getting worse and worse!
All: Yes, really. We have much less freedom than before!
One: Oh what, freedom! That's just a lie. They just want to cheat us all.
All: My God, yes. It is so true.
One: And this poverty everywhere! This suffering everywhere! It makes me so madly angry to see all these poor people!
Everyone: Us too! We are so angry and sad!
One: We should show them up there!
All: That's right! We should fight!
One: Well, let's go! Let's stand up for our rights!
All: Let's go! Only the fight will free us and save the world!
One: We must arm ourselves. We will be an army of liberators!
All: Hooray!
Group two:
One: Oh, what a beautiful world!
Everyone: Yes, why does everyone find it so bad? We are doing well!
One: Yes, but the poor in the world are not as well off as we are.
All: Right. But we must not despair.
One: Look, I brought a flower with me. It will heal us all. And all the others too.
All: Oh, how wonderful. It's true, I can already feel the healing effect!
One: I can feel so much love in me. Here, I give it to you all!
All: Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!
One: Let us be grateful for everything we have.
Everyone: Yes, we are so grateful!
One: We will be the ambassadors of love. Poverty is just a word. We will be rich in spirit, rich in love and everything will disappear all by itself!
Everyone: Yes, all evil will disappear once and for all!
One: Only you yourself are the one who can help yourself!
All: Yes, only you yourself. Hooray!
Group three:
One: What do we do now?
All: thoughtful.
One: We should discuss the problems of this world here in this room and find a solution?
All: yes, strange, isn't it?
One: You can't solve the problems of the world from one room, can you?
Everyone: nods.
One: It is extremely difficult. What should the individual concentrate on?
All: look at each other questioningly.
One: Does each of you have orientation in life when things get difficult?
All: Yes, yes. That is important!
One: Do you know what to do when money becomes scarce?
All: but of course, but yes.
One: do you know what to do when one of your own dies or falls ill?
Everyone: well, sure, we visit the sick and bury the dead.
One: When a stranger outside calls for help or bleeds, do you know what you are doing?
Everyone: that's not so hard. Help him and care for the wound.
One: Do you take enough care to look for solutions to your private problems?
All: Yes, but surely. We are very interested in our well-being.
One: If you have information which should be shared, do you know where you can go?
Everyone: to those it concerns most.
One: Then what are we doing here?
All: We should go.
One: Lets go.
All: Alright.
Numbers:
The biggest group was built by group Number one.
The second largest group was team Number two. But close to one.
The smallest team was that of Number three.
Conditions:
Group Number one met online.
Group Number two met online.
Group Number three met offline.
Evaluation:
In general all groups are very capable when it comes to needed choices and decisions to be made.
Group Number one tends to take influence on all groups but mostly influences itself.
Same with group Number two.
Same with group Number three.
Meanings:
online: Internet-usage, realm of thinking in the individual
offline: Person to Person interaction, realm of dialogue, direct interaction
Interpretation:
Group one thinks it has no influence.
Group two thinks it has huge influence.
Group three is aware of its limits.
Group one cannot cope well with uncertainty.
Group two thinks things are certain.
Group three acknowledges both.
Group one thinks it is a minority and strives for majority.
Group two doesn't care about minorities or majorities.
Group three is confident about not putting too much worry into these numbers.
Meta perspective:
Group one and two are not separated from group three.
All groups are right and wrong at the same time.
Wrongs = exaggeration
Rights = feelings of care
Wrongs = over-estimations
Rights = decision makings
Meta-Meta perspective:
None of these groups do exist.
Picture source:
https://pixabay.com/de/zwinkern-blinken-funkeln-smiley-147450/
I like your tag the most: bullshit! An entertaining exercise. I felt like shaking each of the groups and saying "just get up and do something!"--which means group number three was the least frustrating. An interesting exercise. Will vote later today.
I feel like a child watching her piggy bank grow as I watch the 'vote' bar on steemd.
lol:))
I was hoping for your kind of reaction. Yes, an exercise it should be. And with a twinkle it should be consumed, that's why I tagged it bullshit.
Yeah, I also observe my VP and will return to make some votes. That's why I do not comment much as I like to keep track where I must go back to.
Hope, you are well.
Yours E.
And hope you are well, also. Here in the US sort of consumed by the drama of the Supreme Court nomination. You would probably appreciate the dynamic--it is about much more than the Court. In the age of Trump I have tuned out so much in politics, but this one is so much bigger than the Trump circus. Has this played at all in Europe?
No, haven't heard from the nomination of the Supreme Court. But then I rarely - uhm .. never - consume news. I get them mostly delivered by people I meet off- or online. I am becoming more and more my mom who refused watching TV. If you know one evil you know them all. Which does not mean that I am not politically or socially oriented/interested. Quite contrary.
So I can understand why you tuned out. No judgment from my side.
You like to tell?
Yes, briefly. There is a great divide in this country--and where is that not true? But since the election of Donald Trump the division has become quite caustic. Many of our deep ideological divisions are played out over Supreme Court nominees. The Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of law in the U. S., so appointments are significant, because they are for life. This nominee represents a far-right agenda. But that's not the problem. The problem is, he has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in high school. No way to tell who "remembers" this event accurately. So, an FBI investigation was called for. But his side (Trump and allies) didn't want one. Finally, yesterday, the FBI was told to do a brief investigation, not only into this event but into other charges that have been leveled against the nominee. So, the nation is riveted now, its focus on this real-life drama played out with the reputations of two people on the line and the possible ideological bent of the Supreme Court in balance.
This is really bigger than politics and it has caused me and others to think about wider issues.
I guess my summary isn't brief, as promised :)
Thank you for telling me.
.... hmm ....
... I don't know enough about your system to be able to say anything about it. But as a rule everything that is written or said in the media is accompanied by an interest - we know that, don't we? Sometimes I think the US invented public relations. I know, of course, that it has existed since states and statesmen have existed. Romans and Greeks and Egyptians can sing a song about it.
Has the Supreme Court frequently fallen into disrepute?
What is your own apprehension? That this important authority is in danger of ideologically contaminating itself?
I would think that the USA has a much worse public than we find here. But I can be wrong. I wouldn't know of an event in the history of our judges or politicians who might have anything to do with sex or bedtime stories. ...There was something with a minister ... but well, that was nothing "fancy". Here it is perhaps something else neuralgic. ... Oh, I've really been out of this witch's kitchen too long.
But I'd like to ask: What were the important decisions of which you know the Supreme Court made? Do you see their work endangered on a whole?
... I am not so sure about our supreme courts, but I have had the impression for some time that the forces are under great pressure. Which I don't bring together only with political parties or ideologies, but also with a large part - if not the bigger one - in accelerating global events and high technology and its demanding speed. I think, modern nations suffer a lot from stress.
I love your balanced view--and your global perspective. I'm not sure about the US inventing public relations, but the media certainly can be hysterical.
It would be difficult to overemphasize the importance of the Court. It ruled, for example, notoriously, that a slave (Dred/Scott, 19th century) could be returned to its master, because a slave was property and could be claimed as such if captured, anywhere. This became the law of the land until the Civil War.
The Court also ruled, notoriously, that "separate could be equal" (Plessy v Fergusson---I think 1896) and therefore that segregation could legally be practiced everywhere in the United States. Separate bathrooms, drinking fountains, swimming pools, etc. Not until 1954, in Brown vs Board of Education, was segregation in public schools, specifically, rendered unconstitutional. This public school segregation doomed generations of black children in the US to substandard, underfunded educations.
There are books filled with equally momentous decisions made by the Supreme Court. And these decisions are binding on the whole country and cannot be overturned unless the Court reverses itself at a later date.
There is no area of life untouched by the Court. That's why this nomination is so significant. We want someone with exemplary character, and with Solomon-like wisdom to sit on the Court. Only 9 Justices. 9 people make these rulings. So if this nominee did sexually assault an acquaintance in high school, it matters. And if he's lying about it now, it matters even more. This explains why the drama has gripped the nation. In one week we will have an FBI report. This may or may not exonerate the nominee. If it does, he gets put on the Court. If it doesn't, another nominee will be named.
Sorry for the long answer--didn't know how to make it shorter and explain how important the Court is in the US--not just to law, but to everyday life.
... oh, that answer surprised me. I wouldn't have thought of this.
Is there a basic question which is concerning the court right now? You named quite some big changes in your nations history. You think that the segregation is coming to be installed again?
... I have no idea how the split of the people can be prevented other than to not participate in spreading anxiety. A very difficult topic and also one, the individual is asked to find his inner strength and orientation.
Strangely enough, this strongly reminded me of "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling. Although he adds another perspective, and wants to show us some aspects of our world we seem to have become blind to...
Haven't read his book but I just skipped through the book reviews - interesting.
This piece of mine is intended a little different though it on one side sees the relevance of facts and on the other hand does not over estimate facts as they, as well, never give absolute certainty. Which is, if you ask me, the biggest blindness of our species: that it cannot live with the rest of uncertainty certain questions give us.
Do you know the book Freakonomics? You got to read it. It's about statistics and other curiosities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics
Freakonomics
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. It was published on April 12, 2005, by William Morrow. The book has been described as melding pop culture with economics. By late 2009, the book had sold over 4 million copies worldwide.
cool, thanks. Great service!
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