Lee--Robert Fritz explores this phenomenon you've described in his book,
"the path of least resistance."
many of you have read it--I've purchased probably a dozen copies over the
years to give to graduating students (I doubt that one has opened the
book).
I think that Socrates would have recognized this path that his fellow
Athenians were following was also the one that was easiest to follow.
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