Hi Alistair,
I think the distinction is that no choice is bad, some choice is good,
but too much choice becomes bad again.
If all I have to choose from is unnamed green things, I can blame the
East German government. External factor.
If I get to choose from 10 different versions of chopped broccoli,
that might also be available at different prices at 10 different
stores... Well, if the selected broccoli ends up tasting like
cardboard and I also learn that I could have gotten it for half price
at another store, I might just blame myself. Internal factor.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> This is fascinating... In 1985 my wife Deanna and I visited East
Berlin.
> After visiting a supermarket, where we saw many clear plastic bags
of frozen
> identical but unnamed green things as constituting the frozen
vegetable section,
> we walked outside and found, on the corner of the building, a sign
behind a
> glass case, reading, "Wer hat die Wahl, hat auch die Qual."
Translated: Who
> has a choice, has also the torment/agony. (In German there is a
phrase, "Die
> Quahl der Wal" meaning, the agony/torment/torture of choice) .
>
> It seemed at the time a piece of propaganda reminding people they
really
> didn't want to be tortured by having to make choices (eg, between
various green
> frozen things).
>
> And yet I don't know many people who'd switch places.... It does
make me
> wonder about his research.... Alistair
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