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katakowsj · 2438 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why do young men worship Professor Jordan Peterson?
On a lobster related note, my grandfather would occasionally lament that my family would act like lobsters in a bucket. According to him, many trapped lobsters in a bucket work competitively and keep every single lobster in the bucket. Many would be able to escape, if only they would operate in a cooperative manner. One lobster crawls upright, another crawls over it's back, and so on making a bridge so that all but two or three crawl to safety. Instead though, the lobsters tend to pull one another back from the success of crawling out and not one ever leaves the bucket. My family has definitely been stuck in several buckets before.