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There was another experiement done in High school that a college prof taped from TV ...many years ago... she showed it to us in Communication class at NCSU in Raleigh. This was one where they decided their was a IN group and and OUT group. The IN group had blue star to wear. It started as a demonstration to the students of how hilter built up his youth corps.
Over the next weeks, the experiment became as Miligram and Stanford, out of control. The IN group was very aggressive and did unkind acts to others who were in the OUT group. Finally one girl broke the experiment by not being willing to go along.....and effectively becoming a whistle blower....and we have seen what happens to them and their careers...
Bush seems to do that to everyone. I continually wonder what he has on everyone. Greenspan.....Bush put his arm around him in the early months of being president.....people commented and said Greenspan would not take kindly.... shortly after Bush said they had had a good talk. Since then Greenspan has been Bush puppet. There are lots of incidents of this...
Anyway, Plaid adder the milgram experiment I had studied in another self study part of my BA. It was part of understanding Balance in conflicts, opposites and polarities.
It really does show that any of us, given the same circumstances, could be those soldiers in the pictures. Many do that behavior in corporations. The space shuttle blow ups were part of that cover up and change what was fact. The fall guy never seems to be the authoritarian.... it always seems to be the person who did not stand up. Yet the whistleblowers are called not loyal. All the people who have come out on Bush administration have been called disgruntled.
Standing up and following your true beliefs takes a lot of courage and the ability to stand alone, very alone. The ostracized person from a group is many times the person who did not go along.
The human yearning to belong sometimes overpowers peoples sense of right and wrong. The need to do a good job and receive praise.
I cried today for our country. I am ashamed of our president and minions. I am reminded of the dysfunctional abusive family and how when someone tries to tell the truth, they are not believed. We have a cocaine, alcholic running this country and a lot of enablers who are willing to support the illusion. When children are abused, incest, wife or husband beating, many times there is a person in that family who is the alcholic or addict. This behavior is what is happening in our country at this time. The reactions, the minimizing of the photos, the minimizing of the actions.
The incest survivor who is not believed, because there was not intercourse. Therefore there was not a problem. She was was asked to "jerk him off". She said NO. It is incest.
This incident and the war and the killing and the calling the IRaq enemies and combatants, and insugents...objectifies the people so they don't have to think of them as people. If they were in this country as the English did come....we rose up and fought the English to gain our freedom.... is that any different than what the iraqiis are doing....
There is a great article on alternet.org about how we created these people going back to carter and support of building up afganistan against the russians.....and it talks about a new book.... bad muslim, good muslim....
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