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''So this is one of the things that I want to dig into because the cascade effect is really a refinement as I see it, of the old story of the Emperor's New Clothes, where all it takes is one person. But then it's missing the mechanism. It's like Newton's laws, there's no ability to transmit gravity. It's an instantaneous action at a distance. To my way of thinking, the best way of understanding your theory for most people is to understand the motif that is found throughout American cinema. And the motif has a name, I believe inside the business, which is called the [[Slow Clap|slow clap]], which is that somebody can't take it anymore. And they give an impassioned speech that nobody's expecting, that starts speaking to the unmet beliefs of a large group of people, none of whom have understood that there is a lot of support for this in terms of private preferences. That's the first action. Now if I understand your theory correctly, people have private preferences and public preferences, but they have some threshold of alternate support in the group. It will be necessary for them to update their public preferences towards their private preferences. And then the most important thing is, is that that crazy speech is followed by some anonymous member of the group who starts the [[Slow Clap|slow clap]]. And that [[Slow Clap|slow clap]] becomes oppressive. Because in that group, that person is saying, we all know that what has just been said reflects the group. And then the [[Slow Clap|slow clap]] is joined by a third person and that you watch the cascade visually.'' | |||
-'''Eric Weinstein''' | |||
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