https://steemit.com/society/@lauralemons/mob-mentality-how-strong-is-an-individual-s-moral-code
"This process alone does not account for intergroup conflict: groups also promote anonymity, diminish personal responsibility, and encourage reframing harmful actions as 'necessary for the greater good.'"
What started out as a playful audience, kissing her on the cheek, and placing a flower in her hands, over the course of 6 hours ,ended up a terrifying scene that even the best psychological horror film couldn't replicate. She was naked, bloody, crying. A man had tried to rape her at one point. People had cut her skin. One man had a loaded gun pointed at her head and another person, thankfully, stopped him from pulling the trigger. In the mob it seems there was only a couple people, sort of, trying to keep things from going to crazy. For the most part, this crowd of every day people that had gone to see some art had turned into people capable of torturing another human being.
Marina Abramovic. The performance was called "Rhythm 0" and took place in 1974.
