jportet says: >"Is there a specific topic, concept, etc.. that no matter how many times you try to wrap your head around, you can't ever seem to get it? "< Ye

jportet says: >"Is there a specific topic, concept, etc.. that no matter how many times you try to wrap your head around, you can't ever seem to get it? "< Yes, <edit>Russian political thought patterns</edit> Make that 'Political thought patterns' or hell, maybe just "Thought." >"If you were in this situation, what would you do?"< Go to war? Kill the enemy? But seriously, I'm completely flummoxed by human group behavior vs individual behavior [i.e., the crowd vs the individual]. We have no meaningful way of extrapolating from one to the other. The closest complete model is thermodynamics, which is so primitive as to be useless in this context.