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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1950070, member: 15199"]'People are lemmings.' This is a misconception towards lemmings and a good illustration also of how some people follow a crowd , even when they think they are doing the opposite. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>"The misconception of lemming "mass suicide" is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. It was well enough known to be mentioned in "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons" rel="nofollow">The Marching Morons</a>", a 1951 short story by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth" rel="nofollow">Cyril M. Kornbluth</a>. In 1955, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" rel="nofollow">Disney Studio</a> illustrator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks" rel="nofollow">Carl Barks</a> drew an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Scrooge" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Scrooge" rel="nofollow">Uncle Scrooge</a> adventure comic with the title "The Lemming with the Locket". This comic, which was inspired by a 1953 <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Mercury" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Mercury" rel="nofollow">American Mercury</a></i> article, showed massive numbers of lemmings jumping over Norwegian cliffs.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-11" rel="nofollow">[11]</a> Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_%28film%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_%28film%29" rel="nofollow">White Wilderness</a></i>, which won an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Documentary_Feature" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Documentary_Feature" rel="nofollow">Academy Award for Documentary Feature</a>, in which staged footage was shown with lemmings jumping into certain death after faked scenes of mass migration.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-12" rel="nofollow">[12]</a> A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" rel="nofollow">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation</a> documentary, <i>Cruel Camera</i>, found the <span style="color: #ff0000">lemmings used for <i>White Wilderness</i> were flown from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay" rel="nofollow">Hudson Bay</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary" rel="nofollow">Calgary</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta" rel="nofollow">Alberta</a>, Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but were in fact launched off the cliff using a turntable.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-13" rel="nofollow">[13]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-14" rel="nofollow">[14]"</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1950070, member: 15199"]'People are lemmings.' This is a misconception towards lemmings and a good illustration also of how some people follow a crowd , even when they think they are doing the opposite. :) "The misconception of lemming "mass suicide" is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. It was well enough known to be mentioned in "[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons']The Marching Morons[/URL]", a 1951 short story by [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth']Cyril M. Kornbluth[/URL]. In 1955, [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company']Disney Studio[/URL] illustrator [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks']Carl Barks[/URL] drew an [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Scrooge']Uncle Scrooge[/URL] adventure comic with the title "The Lemming with the Locket". This comic, which was inspired by a 1953 [I][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Mercury']American Mercury[/URL][/I] article, showed massive numbers of lemmings jumping over Norwegian cliffs.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-10'][10][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-11'][11][/URL] Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film [I][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_%28film%29']White Wilderness[/URL][/I], which won an [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Documentary_Feature']Academy Award for Documentary Feature[/URL], in which staged footage was shown with lemmings jumping into certain death after faked scenes of mass migration.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-12'][12][/URL] A [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation']Canadian Broadcasting Corporation[/URL] documentary, [I]Cruel Camera[/I], found the [COLOR=#ff0000]lemmings used for [I]White Wilderness[/I] were flown from [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay']Hudson Bay[/URL] to [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary']Calgary[/URL], [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta']Alberta[/URL], Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but were in fact launched off the cliff using a turntable.[/COLOR][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-13'][13][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#cite_note-14'][14]"[/URL] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming[/url][/QUOTE]
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