2 definitions by Devidose
The "crabs in a bucket" mentality.
Group work that results in no progress being achieved due to internal conflict and strife. End conditions are either equal to or worse off from those at the start.
Group work that results in no progress being achieved due to internal conflict and strife. End conditions are either equal to or worse off from those at the start.
The group failed to achieve anything due to all the groupsink going on. People were more concerned about being better than everyone else than actually doing work and sabotaged so many other people they also sabotaged their own work.
by Devidose January 25, 2018
When the Overton Window shifts around people that don't change themselves yet end up under different labels afterwards after being thrown out/defenestrated of the original windowframe.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Overton Defenestration occurs when the window throws you out itself while you do nothing in response to the Overton Window shifting around you.
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
by Devidose July 12, 2021