22-10-2009, 09:51 PM
Myra Bronstein Wrote:Is this likely to happen in another country?
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/653...c:_Yyc:aUU
A bunch of people suspend all common sense in the presence of an authority figure to this extent. People around them are dying and dead, not breathing, no pulse, there is no fucking oxygen, temperatures are dangerously high. People are not forced to stay. Yet when the con man--oops I mean "authority figure"--tells them to stay they do.
Do we have the full story on this event? Is there anything interesting going on in the background of both the authority figure and his overcharged guests?
I ask this because most people have certain powerful reflexes which would have taken them out of danger in the normal run of things. Was this a normal run of things and what happened to these powerful instinctive responses to danger? Seems to me we're missing something in this story.
Like drugs, perhaps?