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Enai · 07-16-2003, 02:36 PM

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Originally posted by marduck
You should read up on "The California Prison Experiment"
Some college students were picked to be 'guards' some 'prisoners'.
The experiment had to be stopped after a few days, the guards were getting a little carried away.
We are all potential Nazis it turns out.

Wasn't Hannah Ahrendt the historian who wrote about the horrifying fact that Adolf Eichmann (one of Hitlers top men, he organized the deportation and killing of the european jews) was so absolutely normal ? If I recall correctly, the world reacted absolutely shocked to her book about that subject. They needed to believe that Nazi Germany was a singular and non-repeatable thing. I believe it is not. Regrettably, the title of that book escapes me.

Enai

lisarea · 07-16-2003, 02:45 PM

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Originally posted by Enai
Wasn't Hannah Ahrendt the historian who wrote about the horrifying fact that Adolf Eichmann (one of Hitlers top men, he organized the deportation and killing of the european jews) was so absolutely normal ? If I recall correctly, the world reacted absolutely shocked to her book about that subject. They needed to believe that Nazi Germany was a singular and non-repeatable thing. I believe it is not. Regrettably, the title of that book escapes me.

Eichmann in Jerusalem.

The Milgram article I linked to above provides parallels to Arendt's characterization of the banality of evil with the results of Milgram's studies. It's definitely worth a read. Very chilling.

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