What an Awful Ending and what an awful article in general. Ok, Ok, I might get voted down but common I can express opinions without being hated?
He says that it should not be a democracy, nor should it be a dictatorship, so what should it be then?
He states that the long-term self is wiser, but also that the short-term self might be wiser, so which should we listen to?
He misses the point completely of the Miligram Experiment and of the "other" experiments of such kind, I presume Zimbardo. If anything they show that the self is a continual construction, not a rigid personality which exists consistently, but that personality is fluid, it changes, it is made on the spot.
It is an interesting read somewhat, but it is a prime example of everything that is wrong with psychology.
He says that it should not be a democracy, nor should it be a dictatorship, so what should it be then?
He states that the long-term self is wiser, but also that the short-term self might be wiser, so which should we listen to?
He misses the point completely of the Miligram Experiment and of the "other" experiments of such kind, I presume Zimbardo. If anything they show that the self is a continual construction, not a rigid personality which exists consistently, but that personality is fluid, it changes, it is made on the spot.
It is an interesting read somewhat, but it is a prime example of everything that is wrong with psychology.