Comments on: Hero Worship http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/04/26/hero-worship/ One Mormon boy’s iconoclastic quest to remix and rectify his notions of truth, mind, myth, love, life, and transcendence. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jonathan Blake http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/04/26/hero-worship/#comment-257 Jonathan Blake Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:56:55 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/04/26/hero-worship/#comment-257 I was recently made aware of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-People/dp/1400064112/">The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil</a> by Philip Zimbardo which is centered on that very topic. Zimbardo is the professor who conducted the <a href="http://www.prisonexp.org/">famous prison experiment at Stanford</a>. I wish I could remember where I heard about the book so I could give credit. My memory is failing me in my not so old age. :( I was recently made aware of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo which is centered on that very topic. Zimbardo is the professor who conducted the famous prison experiment at Stanford.

I wish I could remember where I heard about the book so I could give credit. My memory is failing me in my not so old age. :(

]]> By: Kullervo http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/04/26/hero-worship/#comment-255 Kullervo Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:45:50 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/04/26/hero-worship/#comment-255 I think one of the most fertile fields for atrocity is the mind that is certain that "I could never do something like that." Psychology has shown us that normal people in the right circumstances will do horrible things. With gusto. When we see concentration camps, mass murders, and killing fields, the question should never be "how could they do such a thing," but "how can we do such things?" I think one of the most fertile fields for atrocity is the mind that is certain that “I could never do something like that.” Psychology has shown us that normal people in the right circumstances will do horrible things. With gusto. When we see concentration camps, mass murders, and killing fields, the question should never be “how could they do such a thing,” but “how can we do such things?”

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