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//Wednesday, December 8, 2010 10:06 PM
the latent Power of Systems
System power creates, maintains, and gives meaning and justification to a situation
as exemplified in Stanford Prison Experiment and, to quote something more real and chronologically relevant to us, the abuses at Abu Gharib. In the Schlesinger Report, an investigative attempt headed by former U.S Secretary of Defense and a committee of generals and high-ranking officials, reasons seeking to answer to the deviant, abusive behaviours exhibited by ordinarily humane individuals are deindividuation, dehumanization, enemy image, groupthink, moral disengagement, social facilitation and other environmental factors. All these highlight the vulnerability of individuals to situational influences but they fail to expose to the faulty systems which allowed such immoral situations to prevail. Most systems are transparent, concealing much often their operation from outsiders... so even when a system is failing to meet its objectives and goals... or in mega corporations that engage in corrupt practices (think Enron), higher-ups are hidden from public scrutiny. Adding on, the ultimate blame lies on the unfortunate, innocuous few at the bottom of this pyramid of evil whereby their actions are merely the very by-products of obedience to authority and reflections of the systemic reality and wind up as unwilling scapegoats carrying the burdens of systemic errors and society's fundamental attribution error tendencies in accounting such atrocities as character flaws and dispositional theories. Just my two cents worth after studying Social Psych for my finals. |
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