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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 10:11 PM
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9. The Corporate Media is a flocking animal. The behavior of organisms
that flock in this manner is marked by a strict conformity to the group as a whole. To leave the group, or to be forced out by ostracism, is to die. Hence each member tries to conform as closely as possible to the behavior of the perceived flock-as-a-whole.

Thus, the reluctance we see to initiate the squawking behavior, while at the same time, this same drive accounts for the unanimity of squawking once it commences.

Thus, succeeding in alarming one of the creatures will invariably rouse the entire flock.


In other words, once ONE of 'em blinks their eyes and sees what's RIGHT IN FRONT of us, there will be a fist-fight over the information that we've been piling up in haystacks.

That'll be the time for us to step back, and lean on our pitchforks.

:)
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