Activities performed in unison, like marching or dancing, increase loyalty to the groupPosted on 02/05/2009 9:30:57 AM PST by BGHater
HITLER and Mussolini both had the ability to bend millions of people to their fascist will. Now evidence from psychology and neurology is emerging to explain how tactics like organised marching and propaganda can work to exert mass mind control.
Scott Wiltermuth of Stanford University in California and colleagues have found that activities performed in unison, such as marching or dancing, increase loyalty to the group. "It makes us feel as though we're part of a larger entity, so we see the group's welfare as being as important as our own," he says.
Wiltermuth's team separated 96 people into four groups who performed these tasks together: listening to a song while silently mouthing the words, singing along, singing and dancing, or listening to different versions of the song so that they sang and danced out of sync. In a later game, when asked to decide whether to stick with the group or strive for personal gain, those in the non-synchronised group behaved less loyally than the rest (Psychological Science, vol 20, p 1).
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville thinks this research helps explain why fascist leaders, amongst others, use organised marching and chanting to whip crowds into a frenzy of devotion to their cause, though these tactics can be used just as well for peace, he stresses. Community dances and group singing can ease local tension, for example - a theory he plans to test experimentally (Journal of Legal Studies, DOI: 10.1086/529447).
Activities performed in unison, like marching or dancing, increase loyalty to the group
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You forgot bright, moving, sparkling or glowing objects.
It doesn’t take a Stanford phD to figure that out.
Ever
Massive scale killings are always required as well.
Massive scale killings regarding a “perceived enemy”, not the worshippers themselves. I hope you are not assuming that Hitler gained control through fear and killings because you are mistaken. He was WORSHIPPED in Germany by the masses.
Right now it appears that the commie goal is to push people so far away from freedom that it leads to a revolution that they can blame on racism, thereby blaming those who are killed in the process.
Commie process...after nationalization (socialization of everything) comes the fight and after the fight comes the "normalization" or a police state.
We already have the nationalization down by about 90%. The only thing left is health care.
How much time do you think we have?
OK, all together now, “YES WE CAN!!!”
I hope you are not assuming that Hitler gained control through fear and killings because you are mistaken.
No, you are mistaken. Dachu was the first concentration camp to open in 1933 to house political prisoners. At its height, Dachau housed over 200,000, of which only a third were Jews. Almost every community in Germany had members taken away to these camps, and as early as 1935 there were jingles warning: "Dear God, make me dumb, that I may not to Dachau come."
There never was a majority of Hitler worshipers, otherwise there would have been no need to keep the rest in line through threats of going to the concentration camps.
At first even they were taken by his spell.
They didn’t oppose him until they were being targeted socially and financially.
FDR and Hitler had a mutual admiration for each others methods of controlling the masses at first.
Yes, but such tactics only work for a limited period of time.
Sustaining it - that is the key.
Sun Tze said - in military actions, sounding the drums one time will rouse the troops to action, the second time they will reach their peak, and by the third time, their zeal will be flagging.
A Jewish friend of mine who lived through that said anyone can become a dictator is he is willing to kill enough people. The German people were intimidated by the Nazis.
[cue “Rawhide” by Frankie Laine]
The German people were intimidated by the Nazis.
And no serious student of history can deny that. That fact alone should cause a great deal of unease among those of us watching the great "0".
Not immediately he didnt’.
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents. It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his weal and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking. He becomes an anonymous particle with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass... Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil... Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance... We have it from Hitler... that the genius of a great leader consists in concentrating all hatred on a single foe. [pp 85-87]
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