Carl, I am trying to get my Psych 101 in order: Was the kitty genovese incident the one that led to that horrendous series of experiments that demonstrate that if you give people a shock console (or what they THINK is a shock console) and ask them politely to do so, they will cheerfully use shocks that they think are lethal, just so long as they are told to?
reminds me of the stoners that jg showed us at arrowhead, who would run out from the crowd, throw a stone, and then sink back into the anonymity of the crowd. Thought experiment: if all humor were forbidden, would genocide be possible??? In the Pleistocene context, with many small groups in desperate conflict for unpredictable resources, what was humor FOR? N > [Original Message] > From: Carl Tollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 5/24/2007 2:52:28 PM > Subject: Re: [WedTech] Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims|the Daily Mail > > Nick asks: > >Do we need a science of Comparative Genocideology? > > Closest I've seen that starts to address this is Chapter 15 from Philip > Bobbit's book "The Shield of Achilles" > titled "The Kitty Genovese Incident and the War in Bosnia". I'll bring > it by FRIAM. > > C. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
