Support or Confidence? Where Votes Go
Even when someone, individually, holds a different position about something, that position will most likely be swayed to that of the herd to which they belong. It is 10 am, I enter my classroom (from the library) to find my guys- seated in the back corner of the classroom- discussing what three of them have just done- submitted their application letters for consideration for various leadership roles in the student administration. Two of them (X & Y) have just submitted letters for the same post. Stunned, I look at them unhappy about that decision. This is not unfounded unhappiness. It is, rather, unhappiness resulting from a feeling of betrayal and deviation from the earlier plan. I ask what prompted the change of mind, and I am told the other contender (Z) for the senior-most post is well known among teachers and students alike. My friend (Y), who we had agreed would throw his hat in the ring for the senior-most post, is afraid of losing to Z. Given my loyalty to both, I tell