Random Emotion Theory:
The idea is credited to Joseph Chaikin (director) by Chuck Mee Jr. (playwright) in the article "Shattered and Fucked Up and Full of Wreckage: The Words and Works of Charles L. Mee" - though I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.
The quote:
"I think there are things that everyone feels at least once every 15 minutes: embarrassment, for example, or humiliation, from no-where, without apparent cause; sudden grief, anxiety, dread, distraction — as though a spirit or monster of some kind had passed overhead; regret, impatience, hatred, and unreasoning rage. It’s not the same for everyone. Some people I know feel none of those things, but instead, every 15 minutes they feel vengeful, jealous — they are immobilized by envy, a longing to possess something or someone, greed, lust, a wish to put something in their mouths."
The Milgram Experiment
From Wikipedia:
The Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
The BBC did a program recreating these tests in 2009, and you can see that over at YouTube. And if you watch the last one to the end you can catch the editor's racial biases at play - for extra credit!
It is also worth noting the Stanford prison experiment as a related study.
Holy Spirit Interactive: The Explanatory Mass:
The Explanatory Mass is simply a guide to the mass. Should just add some context (from a religious perspective) to the text.
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