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Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

I understand the feeling that the tide is turning, but perhaps you’re in a bit of your own echo chamber? Or perhaps it’s just me, being trapped in NJ, but I am not seeing or hearing what you are suggesting. Friends, family members, acquaintances who were maskers, vaxxholes, lockdowners have not really changed their minds, they have simply either forgotten the BS we were put through or are unaware (deliberately in many cases) of the information available about vax injuries/deaths, mask ineffectiveness and lockdown damage. It feels as if they would be perfectly fine if it all came back...

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OMG. The Abilene Paradox. Memories flooding back.

Jerry Harvey first wrote about this in 1974. Link with the original 3 page story below for those with curiousity.

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/content/upload/16-Harvey-Abilene-Paradox-redacted.pdf

A copy of the original, a gift certificate for a suit, and $500 in cash were my dad’s gifts to me on the day I graduated from college in 1977.

The suit and the money are obviously long gone. But the very yellowed, coffee stained, and clearly well read copy is still pinned to my bulletin board. It has been a major factor in my life for 56 years.

Ocassionally, through the ensuing years, my dad would pose this question to me: “Are we on the road to Abilene?”

He died a couple years ago at age 95. I found his own copy in a box he kept by his chair.

I gave it to my oldest son, to replace the copy I had given to him the day he graduated from college.

Thanks beautiful kitten for the memories.

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