Governing others is a science. 1. The leader appears. As an ordinary person, in real life, it is usually the enforcer of the rules, not the maker. When the pressure increases, it is difficult for them to find their own position. At this time, if someone gets up and raises their arms, a leader is born. Boris became the leader. As the experiment continued, his willpower and leadership gradually increased. On the contrary, the less people around him thought, the stronger his attachment became, such as falling into fundamentalism. With this kind of checks and balances without rights, it is not surprising that some absurd and evil things happen.
The second is the power that power confers on people to exaggerate. Le Pen's "The Crowd" on the study of crowds says: "The isolated individual is well aware that even if he is tempted to burn palaces and loot shops when he is alone, he can easily resist such temptations. But being a group One of them, he will realize the power that the numbers give him, which is enough to give him the idea of killing and looting, and will immediately succumb to the temptation. Unexpected obstacles will be violently destroyed” in the film Although not strength given by numbers, but power, the power of the enforcer over the taker. When Eckert first tasted the taste of power, he arbitrarily deprived others of basic dignity, and even tried to rape the female professor. This power not only empowers people, but also amplifies them. In the end the police really wanted to stab Tarek Fader (the protagonist). And that would never happen in normal times.
The third is the principle of clearing power. It is said that the revolutionary ranks have never lacked speculators. Under the same dictatorship, when the will of the leader is infinitely magnified, those who do not approve will become the objects of elimination. There was a popular saying in the Soviet era, whoever is not a friend is an enemy, and the enemy should be eliminated. As violence becomes more and more the basis for the existence of power, the need for and maintenance of violence becomes necessary. And this is like a bottomless pit that requires constant updating. Because retreat means negation, and its existence loses its foundation. Simple slogans are more powerful than long, rational sentences. At this stage, the guard Bash, the female professor and the male assistant were eliminated.
The fourth is the creation of fear. Prisoners who do not obey discipline will be punished, which is the iron rule of power maintenance. Prisoners who don't drink milk are forced to drink it and abuse Tarek Fade, allowing the police to establish authority. Begin to create a terrifying atmosphere, and then expand and shrink, and control it in a controllable dimension (with the release of the handcuffs, the shackles under the feet will become intolerable in every possible way). The prisoners felt that they had to obey, and that there was no hope for resistance. The prisoners became silent, and even though he was the next to suffer, he did not rise up to resist. And the silence is spreading. In this small circle of 20 people, the terrifying atmosphere even made people nervous, showing the horror of totalitarianism.
A power that has been concentrated cannot be rendered harmless by the good will of those who created it. And this kind of experiment with human nature as a sacrifice, such as Pandora's Box that opened the door of hell, the devil will come out.
Finally, the words of the big brother in "1984": "War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is power."
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