> ... [the crisis] seemed to be characterized by groupthink and escalation of commitment to one course of action, at the expense of other possible solutions ...

> ... [the crisis] seemed to be characterized by groupthink and escalation of commitment to one course of action, at the expense of other possible solutions ... This is my favourite sentence in the whole article. I'm not sure what the solution really is, but spending 12 months in school just teaching people "how to respond to a crisis without panicking and behaving like a herd of sheep" would be of huge societal value. We don't all have to do exactly the same thing. Different people can do different things. I've only seen crises where compromises on individual liberty were a grave mistake; but I've seen a lot of crises where by gum the authorities tried that approach anyway with the populace egging them on.