KonWomyn said...In the context of violence, conformity, can function as a means of survival and one is vulnerable to social pressure; they can perform the most unthinkable acts.
As this video shows, often, people have a need to belong to identity affirming-groups. When the group gave the wrong answers, the subject co-signed and when a dissenter was placed within the group, the subject co-signed and told the truth. Mob psychology works on the principle of conformity and authority and there's some twisted altruistic motive driving the philosophy of the group e.g the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and ( Rwanda (Intended Consequences).
Within the group, unknowingly/knowingly people do the sickest of things which indicates a reversion to a more primal state of being. IF this is so, then does it follow that conformity is a most primitive state of mind in communities afflicted by mob violence and/or governed by mob rule (democracy)?
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In the context of violence, conformity, can function as a means of survival and one is vulnerable to social pressure; they can perform the most unthinkable acts.
As this video shows, often, people have a need to belong to identity affirming-groups. When the group gave the wrong answers, the subject co-signed and when a dissenter was placed within the group, the subject co-signed and told the truth. Mob psychology works on the principle of conformity and authority and there's some twisted altruistic motive driving the philosophy of the group e.g the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and ( Rwanda (Intended Consequences).
Within the group, unknowingly/knowingly people do the sickest of things which indicates a reversion to a more primal state of being. IF this is so, then does it follow that conformity is a most primitive state of mind in communities afflicted by mob violence and/or governed by mob rule (democracy)?
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