This old Candid Camera clip showing a stunt involving the power of conformity says more than original viewers may have thought. It explains some of what goes on in our schools, with peer pressure and some of the tiresome rhetoric and political attacks we see by partisans of both parties (and how quickly they fall in line with a new attack line):
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.