Divorcing a Wife Who Isn’t
This is a story of a young man walking in a mall that was crowded. He saw a lady and he just fell for her. He followed her till she was annoyed and reached her tipping point of anger. She erupted shouting at him and even boxed him. She started screaming and the crowed gathered around them. The man suddenly burst crying and saying,” I have no more money to spend. Look how many items you bought. You drained me. There is no enough is enough for you. You are divorced. I don’t need a wife like you” and then walked away. The lady was baffled and didn’t react immediately. The crowd started blaming her. “Why do you behave this way, lady”? “You bought so many items and you should be appreciative rather than demanding”.
This is a real story and it shows the fragility of public opinion. The man was in a predicament, but knew how to gather support of the ill-informed public. He found a creative way to reverse the public opinion by moving the crowd emotionally. He knew how to make the crowd feel the issue isn’t distant from them and that his cause is theirs as well. The crowds’ behavior reminded me of the Theory of Symbolic Interactionism. The theory studies the society focusing on the subjective meanings that people give to events. People’s interpretations of a situation will govern their following course of action.
"You as well, Brutus?" is being repeated. Public opinion forms because of the interactions of individuals. Emotions gather support. The young man knew how to draw the emotions of individuals. Soon, the sympathetic individuals interacted to build a belief that the man divorced the lady rightly so without processing information or finding the real story. The group effect became dominant and resulted in making the predator the prey and the prey as the predator. Once the opinion shapes up people don’t like to be proven wrong and mayn’t be willing to reverse their minds and accept reality.
It amazes me how people collect information and form opinions based on this information. Maybe being first with a burst of giving others that they come from a hurt man/woman plays a decisive role. What if the lady started screaming by saying that the man was chasing her for hours? Would have that changed the outcome? Sometimes being first can be helpful. The fragility of public opinion is evident and may be formed on very ill-based facts.
The story of the lady and young man reminds me of the Receive-Accept-Sample (RAS) Model. When people receive many conflicting messages, they tend to go by those messages that are consistent with their current beliefs/opinions. The young man created belief in the crowd that he was the prey and by his creative ideas gave no room for conflicting messages to be heard by the gathering crowds, His creativity helped him out.
It is amazing how creativity plays a dominant role in our lives.
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Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #25
Lisa Vanderburg
منذ 4 سنوات #24
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #23
And I love you my drear friend Clau Valerio
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #22
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #21
Your comment is a buzz on its own. Just by giving real examples of recent public opinion manipulation
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #20
Spot on Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador and the trigger could be a small event
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #19
It is mass deception my friend.
Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee
منذ 4 سنوات #18
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #17
Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee- you read buzzes well before commenting on them. You extracted the main points of the buzz in your comment. Yes, mass hysteria means the prevalence of chaos and the chaotic decision-making as a result. Your baseball bats are swinging in the right direction.
Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee
منذ 4 سنوات #16
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #15
Dear Jerry, In response to your comment and that of CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit#12 I am writing a buzz to publish next week on these prominent issues that you bring in your comment. I shall elaborate on the global village and what you say here "takes us part of the way to that possibility but the flashpoints of fascism are arriving at an ever increasing pace". Thank you for elaborating on the role of emotions in decision-making.
Jerry Fletcher
منذ 4 سنوات #14
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #13
Dear David Navarro L\u00f3pez- it is amazing how your mind works. You are right and many people do what some governments do. They change the problem to deviate the public opinion from the core issues. Corporations tend to blame customers rather than their inferior products and/or poor customer service. What happens is a growing polarization with the majority in one side and the minority on another. We see it today when people revolt and the politicians blame certain sector of people for the cause of the national problem and not the governments' poor handling of economy. There is a spill-over effects and the issue extends to other sectors. For example, public revolt results in declining tourism and many sectors suffer accordingly such as hotels, restaurants and transportation. The roots of the problem branch out.
David Navarro López
منذ 4 سنوات #12
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #11
Your comments for a higher meaning of the buzz dear CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit. Variety is the spice of life and homogenization is decreasing diversity. Are we losing the spice of life continually? Your comment tolls many bells in my head and your use of the word homogenization shall be my next buzz. I have some thoughts to share with you. The video link is great. It is inspirational as well. In my e-book and my buss on "Fish Pond- the complexity of management: https://www.slideshare.net/hudali15/fish-pond-metaphor-complexity-of-management I discussed the issue of coalescing the fish that live in an ocean and move them to a small space such as a fish pond. There are considerable complexities, but conformity becomes more pressurizing. You are right and I welcome your comment my friend.
CityVP Manjit
منذ 4 سنوات #10
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #9
Great and look forward to reading your buzz my friend Randall Burns.
Randall Burns
منذ 4 سنوات #8
Indeed Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee soon my friend
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #7
Thank you Randall Burns. I have read a buzz from you for quite sometime. I hope to read one soonest.
Randall Burns
منذ 4 سنوات #6
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #5
I love the way you explained the reaction of spectators and why they reacted the way they did. You are a great man of reasoning my dear Edward Lewellen. The past is ingrained in us and even though we say live the present, the past has the control on the steering.
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #4
I appreciate your very comprehensive comment my dear Debasish Majumder and for your generous sharing of the buzz. It is a sad fact that creativity may be ill-used. Yes, creativity is turning the unfamiliar to familiar and vice versa. Whether the intended use is for good or bad is different from creativity. Reading history shows a huge number of creative ideas that were put to evil purposes. It is sad, but as our friend Jerry Fletcher keeps saying "And this is how it goes". In wars, in business and all aspects of life we find that as we make better traps, the he mice keep creating better ways to avoid trapping.
Debasish Majumder
منذ 4 سنوات #3
Ali Anani
منذ 4 سنوات #2
On spot comment Pascal Derrien. I also thank you for sharing the buzz
Pascal Derrien
منذ 4 سنوات #1