Sunday, August 10, 2008

The Wave

I've been thinking a bit about psychology lately. I told my aunt about the Milgram experiments.

In case you don't know about it, read up on it on wikipedia, it's really interesting. Basically, Professor Milgram concludes that most humans do not have the resources necessary to resist authority, thus explaining events like Nazism.

Also, The Wave is a book based on a true story of a high school teacher that tries an experiment to re-create the nazi movement in his own class. Amazingly and scarily, he succeeds.

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