053 the reality of good and evil in all of us
From: starstuffharvestingstarlight joao@hipercubo.net Date: 2010-05-20 21:04:59 Title: the reality of good and evil in all of us
though i like to think we're not binary, the recent house issues fit perfectly with phil zimbardo's model for good and evil, which he refers to as the lucifer effect. in his lecture, he emphasizes the fact that if we want to analyze the perversions in people, we have to look at the power structure in the system.
in our house, despite it being an open, non-authoritarian house, therefore with no explicit power, we had implicit power. P was our alpha-male. he was louder, more violent and more imposing than everyone else. so this spread to everyone. more arguments between the people at the house, more disgruntled guests leaving. this fits zimbardo's model for human behavior, which predicted that people would begin to behave according to the perversions of the leadership (implicit in our case). when someone barked louder and forced him out (a power struggle in a very canine way), the perversions changed. i am curious to see what our new alpha will bring as perversions and/or benefits. because there is another side to this: if someone can be a devil, they can be a hero too. any setting has its power structure, and we need to be aware of this power structure and its perversions, so that we create a space that's a hero bat cave, not a devil's lair.
during 1 year and a half, my house had me as the implicit power, even though there was no explicit one. and my perversions were the perversions of the house. but my good attributes were the good things of the house. and that spread through everyone. it made people different. it pulled people to a more tolerant, happy side we all have. anyone that visited knows that.
at this house, we can create the same positive output. but again: people only show the symptoms of their setting's diseases.
godspeed starstuff ☆★☆☆★★★☆☆☆☆☆
Comments: From: NebulaX soares.b.tatiana@gmail.com Date: 2010-05-21 23:47:11 Subject: Zimbardo
Fuckin' good, dude. Great speaker.
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