One of the challenges we have as human beings is to find our community. We need a clan to belong to which can bring security but also potentially present us with a trap.
In order to belong we need to define ourselves as being members and sometimes shoehorn ourselves into a model that may not feel quite right.
This is human nature in spades.
My instinct has always told me to be wary of groupthink precisely because the draw to belong can potentially cloud our judgement. It's wonderful to feel part of something bigger than ourselves but that invariably comes with some warning stickers
We love labels and categories so we can fit in with the flipside serving as criteria for exclusion and even banishment.
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