“Anonymous” from 2/23, 1:56 doesn’t know what groupthink is.

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon endemic to the small group dynamic. It can most easily be described as the process by which a group blindly follows a bad idea, because no one speaks up to point out how bad it is. They trust someone else to point out that it’s a bad idea, and since no one says anything, they assume that their concerns are unfounded. Then the obviously bad idea fails.

Anyone who has watched Anonymous knows that its modus operandi is the opposite of groupthink. It’s a huge, multinational movement, chock full of people just dying to take the piss out of each other. If an idea is stupid, Anons will be all over it, because we like nothing more than to mock the stupid.

Contrary to the creed, Anonymous has many flaws, but groupthink is not among them. Anonymous is not a really a group. Anonymous is a massive collective of individuals who do whatever they want, and can (occasionally) agree to work together to get what they want.

As for the MSNBC article, it was a blow to scientology, for the few seconds that it was relevant. It said more about the state of the popular internet consciousness that such an article was written in the first place, and that, I think, is the salient bit of news in this post. Unless I have misunderstood your point.

The funny bit being that the cult has completely missed the point. Comments on the MSNBC article reek of Co$ trolling. They don’t get how futile it is to do so. The only point of trolling a comment section is lulz, and the Co$ has a poor sense of humor.

But then, the Co$ actually thinks people will believe that the Xenu story isn’t a part of their dogma. They don’t have a good understanding of the rational mind. I guess it’s because they hate psychology so much.

As for karma, well, karma isn’t actually a real thing. Though I do agree with you that some of the people in Anonymous either need to get their act together or leave. Some of the recent comments on this blog by people claiming to be “Anonymous” have been really stupid and pointlessly offensive (I’ve deleted the worst of them).