This morning I have the mood disintegrated. Self-esteem: -100.
I'm really down and I can not get up the morale ... god, how sad!
Maybe it will be the fault of the antibiotics I am taking, but he can not lift even the thought that in less than 10 days I'll be on vacation ...
So today I write to further depress me, but will report a story that I found curious ...
Lucifer Effect: How the good people become bad.
In 1971, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo at Stanford and professor selected a group of students who, for two weeks, $ 15 days, simulating the conditions of a prison. The children were chosen on the basis of simple requirements: good health and good mental and physical balance. In case some people had to immerse themselves in the role of the guard in that of other inmates. They were all children of the middle class in Palo Alto, students in one of the most prestigious American universitiesAll participants, therefore, were volunteers who were told what would happen. They were free to ask to stop the experiment at any time and they knew perfectly well that it was a scientific simulation from the University. To make it more likely, the boys were arrested Sunday morning by a real team of police, who followed the procedures in case of arrest realistic and house break-ins were recorded by a professional cameraman.
Then began the detention, followed closely by the study group Zimbardo with constant television coverage. The boys-guards immediately began to implement the behavior of growing psychological violence. Threats, dehumanization, isolation, sexual humiliation. After 36 hours, five out of nine prisoners began to show signs of nervous breakdown. The experiment was discontinued on the sixth day, because he had gone out of control. From those six days
Philip Zimbardo, more than thirty years, has drawn a book essential to understanding the nature of evil. It's called The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn evil in Italy and was published in 2008 by Cambridge University in the series of Psychology. The book is a lesson on the nature of evil and part of a crucial assumption: the Evil is the exercise of power, evil was born blind obedience to power. In short, anyone, even you who think you are incapable of evil, can discover in certain circumstances, of being an "agent of Evil" or of being a "pawn of evil," indifferent to its unfolding, to stop too passive or too conformist to recognize it, or as a third hypothesis, to be a normal person who acts heroically at the right time, that is different from the masses. Recognize the evil and resists. And it does so for the Common Good, not for himself.
And again: the Evil is almost never the individual, but in systems. This is the reflection of Zimbardo it should hit more: from within a system, very few have the moral strength, dignity and firmness to say no. It also means System for only certain ingrained patterns of thought, leading us all, except a few "deviant" to let things go as they go instead to change them ...
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