Stark Image of Arkansas in Spring, 2002. An Original Photograph by mkrause381@gmail.com or mkrause54@yahoo.com.
Few situations are more difficult, than the feeling one's life has been put "on hold". Or that there are people, some known, many unknown, connected by forces, whether greed, resentment, anonymous mean amusement, who have conjoined to circumscribe one's life. How do meaner people connected in meaner acts sometimes overwhelm the neutral or usually kinder people?
The forces which connect them become so repetitive as to be almost predictable. Whether these forces are psychic, telepathic, or exist among ethnic or other groups who seem to connect physico-chemically.
The connected also use known technology, surveillance by "wiretaps" on cellular and land telephones, cameras in stores or store parking lots, Internet and website or other device tracking.
Like elements in a humanoid electronic chain, the connected report on certain people or automobiles from store to store or parking lost to parking lot, street to street, highway to highway, interstate to interstate.
All of this may be done to track the innocent for store sales, automotive repair, other expenditures. Yet the Osama bin-Ladens, terrorists, dangerous criminals, and thieves are not so easily found.
Newser's Rob Quinn reported on a related phenomena in March 2010. A chilling French documentary recreated a famous 1960s psychology experiment about punishment. In "Zone Extreme", a TV game show host instructed players to deliver a painful electric shock to punish a victim for a wrong answer. The victims were actors in the documentary.
Only 19% of players stopped the game before delivering the maximum 420 volt, despite the victim's howls of pain. The aim of the documentary was to highlight the power of TV.
The documentary producer referred to Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram's study in which 62% of participants obeyed researchers orders to shock people, noting the number was higher, 81%, in the TV game show players.
Producer Christopher Nick concluded "It's more about the notion of power than about the individual. When a person is alone, face to face with someone abusing their power, then he or she becomes completely malleable and obedient".
Similar behaviors can be observed in severe bullying, more common now that in recent decades. People with no personal grudge against an innocent person, obey someone with no real power or authority who instructs them to bully that innocent person.
Graphic: Stark Image of Arkansas in Spring, April, 2002. An Original Photograph by mkrause381@gmail.com or mkrause54@yahoo.com.
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