Social Proof & the Power of Persuasion:

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Ok - this has nothing to do with Internet Marketing, making more money, copywriting,or just about any of the other small minded matters I try to tackle on here as often as possible.  So if a little bit of scary social commentary is not up your alley - simply skip watching the video below.  But if you want to take a closer look at the real power of persuasion and how social memes spread nefariously through small groups in cataclysmic ways ( and of course - you can draw any number of your own analogies as to how these very same sorts of mindsets are at work in our lives, business practices and the fishbowl economies that so many of us play in online) take a VERY close look at the last 2 minutes of this video.  The whole thing is worthwhile - but if you truly want to feel the immense power of social conditioning run amok - ( and of course the whole nature/nurture argument of belief) taking a hard, close uncomfortable gaze into the eyes at the end of this thing, is well - very sad stuff.  

 

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