Conformity IS Obama's "Fundamental" Change for America

Did you ever wonder what Obama had in mind when he said "We will fundamentally change America"?

I believe this article points out just some of the agenda that Obama is trying to institute in our country. Conformity is the very basis of socialism.

Everyone must be the same, except of course, our esteemed leaders. Remember how cool it was to be living in Eastern Europe during the cold war?


CONFORMITY KILLS
Source: Ronald Bailey, "Conformity Kills," Reason Magazine, February 2010.

"If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you?" irritated parents everywhere asks when their kids argue that they should be allowed to do something just because "everyone else is doing it." A new paper in the journal, "Evolution and Human Behavior," suggests that societies may engage in such self-destructive conformity when they face unexpected environmental crises.

A model generated by Hal Whitehead, a biologist at Dalhousie University, and Peter Richerson, a professor of environmental science policy at the University of California at Davis, suggests:
That people tend to conform to what are perceived as socially successful strategies when they live in stable environments.

As a result, odd individuals become rarer and societies lose their ability to learn new coping skills.

Whitehead and Richerson speculate that political systems might become dominated by conformists and stifle the ability of individuals to make timely adaptations to changed circumstances. They cite the Norse communities of medieval Greenland and the Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica as possible examples of societies that collapsed because of excessive conformity.

Whitehead and Richerson think their research is relevant to dealing with current global environmental problems, arguing that "the risk of population collapse may be reduced by promoting individual learning and innovation over cultural conformity."