Books:
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Cold War to the Terror War by Alfred McCoy, the shocking
photographs from Abu Ghraib are nothing new.
Escape from Freedom by Eric Fromm, this classic reminds us
of the first step a fascist leader takes even in a nominally democratic
society.
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib by Karen
Greenberg and Joshua Dratel, exposing the perversion of legal skills by
government lawyers.
Oath Betrayed by Steven H. Miles professor of medicine and
bioethics.
Without Sanctuary, a documentary catalogue of lynching postcards
Photography of the Holocaust by Janina Struk
Film:
Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment [1985]
Das Experiment is a German film based on the SPE that has
been widely shown around the world.
Repetition by Polish artist ArturZmijewski. A forty-six
minute film that highlights the seven days paid volunteers spent in his mock
prison.
Faces of the Enemy, Sam Keen show how archetypes of the
enemy are created by visual propaganda that most nations use against those
judged to be the dangerous “them,” “outsiders,” “enemies.”
The Marine Machine a full, graphic depiction of the making
of a Marine by William Mares
The Wave, a powerful docudrama of this simulated Nazi
experience captured the transformation of good kids into pseudo Hitler Youth.
Suicide Killers by French filmmaker Pierre Rehov viewed many
Palestinians in Israeli jails who were caught before detonating tier bombs or
had abetted would-be attacks.
Links:
Music:
Stanford Prison Experiment” is the name of a rock band from
Los Angeles whose intense music is a fusion of punk and noise, according to its
leader, who learned about the SPE as a student at UCLA.
Quotes:
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men
to do nothing. British statesman Edmund Burke
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is
to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
Martin Luther King
Influence Tactics
Three simple influence tactics that have been consistently
studied and documented by social psychologist: the foot-in-the door tactic,
social modeling, and self-labeling of helpfulness.
[1] Our slow ascent into goodness step by step makes use of
what social psychologists call the “foot-in-the-door” tactic. This tactic
begins by first asking someone to do a small request, which most people readily
perform, and then later on to ask them to comply with a related but much bigger
request, which was the actual goal all along.
[2] Altruistic role models increase the likelihood that
those around them will engage in positive, pro-social behavior.
[3] Give someone an identity label of the kind that you
would like them to have as someone who will then do the action you want to
elicit from them. When you tell a person that he or she is helpful, altruistic,
and kind, that person is more likely to do helpful, altruistic, and kind
behaviors for others.
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