@t_biglarp8 There’s a fan project called LoZ Hero’s Purpose. One of the plot points is detailing if Ganondorf is just Demise’s Hatred given form, or he is a victim of Demise’s curse. It takes place in the Child timeline after Link exposes Ganondorf’s intentions between the king and him.
@RoomTempShrimpp@YourPalRags 2 things
1. Is the internet still doing the whole “guilty until proven innocent” thing
2. Which cropped photos are you referring too? (Twit won’t let me post two images. I’m asking either this image or his twit pfp)
One of the most telling and depressing phenomena in social psychology was elucidated by the Asch Conformity Experiment.
First conducted in the '50s, the experiment sat participants in a room with a number of (unbeknownst to the participant) actors.
The participant was shown a card with a line drawn on it. They were then shown a number of lines on a screen. The lines were of different lengths: A, B, and C.
They had to state aloud which of the lines on the screen matched the line on the card.
During the test, the actors were told to all give the same incorrect answer. If Line B matched the length of the line on the card, all the actors said Line C was the correct answer.
The test: how many people were prepared to deny reality to fit in with the consensus position.
The study found that 75% of participants - all educated to at least undergraduate degree - conformed with the incorrect majority at least once during the test. Only 25% of participants refused to conform at all.
More than a third of all answers prioritised conformity over reality.
Reading about this formed one of the most important planks of my worldview: the more a position relies on social enforcement, the less sound it is as an argument.
This exposes an underlying truth that explains repeated outbreaks of fanaticism among human populations on all manner of topics, from Israel to Mao to the Moonies.
It also explains why radical movements deploy so many of the same tactics to achieve said fanaticism, and why celebrities are so strongly pressured into taking political stances.
It is about moral fervour. The more people you can find to repeat a line, the more people will conform to that line, regardless of its basis in reality.
And, sadly, the goodness in humans - the desire to be agreeable - makes many of us particularly susceptible to this sort of manipulation.
I love my husband!
I haven’t met him yet, and I have no idea who he is, but I love him, okay? I love him to the moon and back. To the stars and back. To the ends of the universe and back.
Hoping he loves me too 🤞