The psychological effects of inferiority

[andrewducker]

The ways in which society affects peoples minds is of interest to me at the moment - I've been slowly but surely moving towards the view that movies, books, music, etc. all have a very maked effect on the people that watch them. I still believe in freedom of speech, etc., but that's because I believe that the alternative is far worse.

Anyway, I bumped into this today - which is like the Stanford Prison Experiment, only performed on kids. Here's a quote:

"I administered this exercise to a group of children with dyslexia. Brown-eyed children, who couldn't really read or spell anything without stammering, suddenly could spell words they couldn't before. On the other hand, I had a very smart girl who could multiply very well. The moment she, as a blue eyes, came in a inferior position, she started to stammer and making mistakes doing her sums. And we had been doing the exercise for less than two hours!"

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Do you simply believe in the -idea- of freedom of speech or do you believe that we -have- freedom of speech?

[andrewducker]

I believe in the ideal of free speech. I do think that we have more freedom of speech than we ever had in the past, however. Not enough, but still more than you'd ever have gotten away with at previous points in history.