Word: groupthink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kundera's characters are outsiders by choice, but all are barred from the consolations of groupthink. They cringe at shared beliefs: "The best of all possible progressive ideas is the one which is provocative enough so its supporters can feel proud of being different, but popular enough so the risk of isolation is precluded by cheering crowds confident of victory." Kundera's men find the messianic earnestness of an orgy either frightening or funny. They do not believe that indiscriminate sex or any other contemporary anodyne will save them. They live perilously close to what Kundera calls...
...House favors. For a variety of reasons, there's much less of that kind of exchange these days. The interesting phenomenon is that Washington commentators sympathetic to Carter became disillusioned with him before much of the rest of the country did. Was this a case of claustrophobic Potomac groupthink or of closer knowledge? Some of both. Reporters recognized Carter's genuine concern about the Iranian hostages but disliked the way he used the situation to his political advantage. The liberal Mary McGrory also thinks that reporters spotted a mean streak in Carter long before the public read what...