where will you be Thursday evening between 6 and 8 pm.
It is harder to imagine a better place than
the APS School Board Candidate Forum.
I don't know what else to say.
It's dance time.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
It is never too soon to start thinking about
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six conditions for people to take action - from http://www.uplink.com.au/lawlibrary/Documents/Docs/Doc82.html
structural conduciveness,
strain or tension,
growth and the spread of a generalised belief,
precipitation factors,
mobilisation and organisation for action,
And finally, operation of mechanisms for social control.
In having these social conflicts develop into riots, inmates accomplish at least three essential psychological objectives.
The first is a sort of outlet for expressing hostility originally generated by failure in human relations, in particular their resentment of confinement.
Secondly, the reinforcement of a self-picture in the role of a martyred victim of superior force, with particular reference to their heroic counteractions.
And thirdly, absolution of any personal sense of guilt or responsibility for offenses against society by emphasising and concentrating on society’s real or fancied offenses against them.
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If we are in that prison that Plato described still, the Cave, and we are not looking at anything but the shadows that those who have us chained while they cavort and drink, do not want us looking away from, then a paper about prison riots and what motivates them might be very appropriate.
I might use this psychology to explain the actions of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, or the people who wrote the Magna Carta.
J. Lopez
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