BakerJohnson6

"What it all has to do with us". This article is showing the way that taking the path of least resistance is often followed by most people. The path of least resistance is the chioce which makes one not have to fight as hard once the chioce is made. One of the examples in the text is a manager is told to fire many employees or he will be fired himself. By refusing to fire the others he would encounter much resistance, mainly from losing his job, so most likely the man will fire the other employees. This idea conforms to the idea that individualism is not as important than the group. If most people take the path of least resistance, taking out the extreme circumstances, the group as a whole will benifit, that same company which desired the man to fire his employees may have made that decision because they are aware of the companys loss of profits and if the company were to keep the employees it would have gone under, which would have forced more people out of their jobs. While there are some times that people aren't even aware of the other choices that could be made which still leads them to the path of least resistance. Sexism and racism both tie into this idea, to fit in many people will jump on the bandwagon to ridicule or humiliate just so they aren't cast out of their group. It is much easier to agree or not say anything to a joke or statement you dont really agree with than to show how you are different and be ridiculed yourself.
1) Why do most people not know how the path of least resistants is the path they choose because it is so much easier?
2) Why are white men, supposedly the highest ranked social class, many white man are discriminated in society today because of their incomes or age.
My reaction to this article is that I guess I can somewhat relate to the conforming to social classes by going with the norms and taking the path of least resistance but I dont think I ever though of it that way. Most of the time the path of leat resistance is the only that will end the same way, if everything doesn't turn out the same than not only are the paths different but results are to, which one could just argue people do things because of the results.