2022 SHUV SHOW “Herd Conformity & the Believer” Christene Jackman

2022 SHUV SHOW
“Herd Conformity & the Believer”
Christene Jackman ©4.1.2022
https://www.ChristeneJackman.com/

EXCERPT: "Welcome to the Shuv Show. I'm your host, Christene Jackman.
I don't mean to say that I've been in a crabby mood lately, but a good indication is that my candy jar currently is filled with dried cayenne peppers.
Okay. Let's be real. Believers can get crabby.
As an artist, I can get pretty intense when I'm in creative mode. I'm just gone, somewhere weird in my head. You think I'm here, but I'm not. If one of my roomies knocks on my door while I'm working on a song or writing on the computer, they just might hear a rather terse, "Yeah!" They fear me. I've named my studio: "Crabby Road Studios." I'm not mad, just intense. Since they're revealed their terror of me while I'm in this state, I've been trying to respond more cheerfully. Crabby is not kosher. Our moods affect each other: for good or bad.

Top Five things that tend to annoy me:

1. Grey Days. Seriously. It drains me mentally, makes me feel unmotivated. When living in Israel, there was 6 months of sunshine and blue sky and I reveled in it! Where I live now, it can be so grey, rainy, and humid in summer. I believe the runner up for state flower was mildew. I've since come to the understanding that I must remember, Grey is one of God's colors, too.
2. Boredom. My brain wants input, needs it. I must learn, experience, figure things out. This week I will search out a vegetable that I've never tried before.
3. Unstimulating conversation. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…. Solution: I stopped talking to myself.
4. Commercials. Listening to a medley, designed to flow from one song to the next, perfectly crafted, rising, building, almost there to the musical pinnacle: and suddenly WHAM—"Are you struggling with embarrassing foot odor?"
Heavy sigh. The only solution to this is going off grid. Or—go buy the album. I know, I know. I have ads on my YouTube channel. I need the money. If everyone who listened to the music would buy my songs…. I'm just sayin'. I, too, don't like ads.
5. Truth Rejectors. People who see the Truth but resist it for a number of reasons: ignorance, self-doubt, or because it involves change and swallowing pride, and that tough thing of standing up to their peers. You warn them, but they don't seem to understand or want to understand. Okay then, "So long, so long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!"

HERD CONFORMITY
Let's explore Truth Rejectors a bit. Why do people continue on in a lie when they know in their gut that something is wrong? One of the reasons is herd conformity. Here's a Quote from Psychology Central:

A new research study sheds light on a behavior that is consistent among many species — that is, making decisions based upon the actions of others. Scientists at the University of Leeds believe they may have found why humans flock like sheep and birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals. Researchers discovered that it takes a minority of just five percent to influence a crowd’s direction — and that the other 95 percent follow without realizing it.

I'll put a link in the description to a couple video shorts on YouTube that deal with this.
Question the Herd | Brain Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJCXXTMrv8
Social experiment - most people are sheep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEhSk71gUCQ

In one experiment, they had about 20 people line up who were in on the test, with the last person in the queue, clueless. The Researchers presented a single long black vertical line on a white poster board. On the other poster board, there were 3 lines of differing heights, with one being the same length as the 1st poster board. They had the first person look at the single line, and then asked to pick out the line on the other board that was the same height. A, B or C. One by one, each participant looked and then pronounce: "A" is the same"--although A was clearly not the answer. But one by one, they all said "A" was the correct answer. The last person in line, the one being tested, obviously struggling within, sensing that A was the wrong answer---still eventually said "A."
Wow.
They re-ran this experiment a few times. It ended up that only a few test subjects said, "Duh – it's "C" and stood against the majority. The vast number sided with the inaccurate majority. Mind-blowing.

This herd mentality can be used for the good: e.g., running from danger, etc. Unfortunately, it can also be used for evil . . . "