Occupy Your Mind-Ep.40 Why Do People Give Up Their Power to Cult Leaders and Dictators?

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Historically, people have given up their power, allowing strong, powerful authority figures tell them what to do? Why? Usually it’s because they are afraid, they feel powerless and have accepted that the authorities are smarter and stronger and so will protect them.

Case in point:

Over 900 people—nearly a thousand!—lined up to drink poison at cult leader Jim Jones’ command. Why didn’t they gang up on him and overpower the gunmen surrounding them? They must have noticed the people ahead of them dying after they drank it, so didn't they know they were going to die anyway? Why didn't any of them resist? What did they have to lose when they were going to die anyway?

The first handful of people who lunged at the gunmen may have been shot and killed, but if all 900 had acted in unison, ganging up on Jones and his posse, most of them probably would have survived. But the people weren’t unified. They were all focused on following orders coming from one man. What if they had been listening to each other and to their own consciences first? What if they’d recognized Jones for who he was, just a man? What if each one knew that the others would watch his/her back? What if the first person to lunge at the gunmen knew that the person behind him/her would do the same?

Similarly, victims of the Holocaust, dug their own graves, as they were ordered, then lined up in front of the graves, stuck their necks out and waited to be shot. If one person had defied orders and lunged at the Nazis, he/she would have been shot. But what if they all had lunged? Even if they all were shot, they would have made it difficult for the perpetrators, may have even gotten some of the Nazi soldiers shot in the process.

We humans can do incredible things when we’re unified and supportive of each other. Knowing we have a crowd standing behind us watching our backs gives us courage. But when we’re divided, we can easily be conquered. Rugged individualism teaches us to be selfish, unappreciative of others who help us, and unwilling to help others in need. It may sound like an attractive idea, but it is actually a lonely way to live. We humans need each other in order to thrive! (And yes, that means physical contact.)

We’re told to obey authorities in the realm of science. Yet history also shows us that scientists, doctors and even psychologists will often help torture victims of dictatorships. Are medical “experts” really better than us? Are they all nice people with good intentions? Do they really know more than we do? If that is the case, then why do they disagree with each other?

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