Where all think alike, no one thinks very much
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. -WALTER LIPPMANN, The Stakes of Diplomacy
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
In the book
Most of us never step back; we press our face to the glass and call the smear the sky. And the social version is just as dangerous: where everyone around you thinks alike, no one is really thinking very much, and the instruments all drift together toward the same blind spot. [Name here a blind spot of your own that cost you — the plane you were certain wasn't there, the person you misread, the outcome you were sure of that never came.] — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)