Becoming the crowd
My first (maybe last) Wikipedia entry, in the False Dilemma article:
Examples in popular culture
One example of false dilemma occurs in the music video “Eenie Meenie” by Sean Kingston and featuring Justin Bieber.[5] In the video, hundreds of fertile young women are seen attending a party in a high-rise condo with few males other than Kingston and Bieber. The female attendees are given a round robin high-pressure sales pitch to choose between a dichotomy of the two. Kingston sings, “She’s indecisive / can’t decide / keeps on lookin’ / from left to right,” and Bieber sings, “Can’t make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind / please don’t waste my time, time, time, time, time.” In one final scene, a befuddled girl stands between Kingston and Bieber. The two singers see her indecision as a sign of her character (“Shawty is a eenie meenie miny moe lova” and “you seem like the type to love ‘em and leave ‘em”) but no mention is made that would indicate her confusion is due to her disinterest in either of the black and white options she’s been presented. Bieber contemptuously tells the girl “you don’t have to roll the dice” when, in application, randomness is the only solution to a false dilemma if one is to avoid a decision based upon fallacious reasoning.
