From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 13 Feb 2003 - 16:26:25 GMT
Keith,
The incident is not fresh in my mind because it happened some time in the
60s or 70s, but there was a professor who started using Nazi methods of
indoctrination in his classroom to show the students what happens. The next
thing he knew, some of the students were standing around watching other
students and telling them what to do. When the professor asked what they
were doing, they told him they were protecting him from people who might try
to harm him. It was not anything he had asked anyone to do. They just felt
like it was something that needed to be done. If he hadn't ended the
experiment, the "watchers" might have taken over the class and used the
teacher as an excuse to put fear into the other students, which they had
already begun to do. "Leaders" are not always the ones in charge of what's
going on. They are often just figureheads who provide others with the
authority to do what THEY want to do. The figurehead is the one who gets
blamed and remembered for all the bad things that happened. I'm not saying
he/she did not go along with what happened, but to my mind the fault lies
with the people who create and carry out the plans.
Grant
Grant
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