Do you Agree?

Thirty million book owners of The DaVinci Code must be right, and the movie is a worldwide hit. Publicity and religious controversy has fueled instant name recognition, filling the theater seats internationally.

With that endorsement I went with my adult son and sat through its mediocre acting, beautiful filming, and a story line that contained no suspense.

We will survive wasting a few hours and some bucks, but what does it tell us about our own suggestibility through social-proof?

When public acceptance reaches critical-mass, there is a chain-reaction and an atomic explosion of behinds in theater seats. Is it based on a conscious decision, logically reasoned using the wisdom of our left-hemisphere?

Placebo