shock. The other half could only activate a light for him
to see.
The blood pressure of the group who believed they
were shocking the man who had annoyed them dropped
to normal rapidly. The pressure of the men who could
only flash a light remained high!
This experiment tells us how necessary it is for humans
to get rid of their aggressive impulses and also how
wrong it would be to live in a society where no aggression
occurred. Bottled up, aggression could destroy us. When
it is released, we are able to survive.
The best you could hope to find is some society where
some ritualized form of release from aggression allowed
the people to blow their safety valves when necessary.
The release needn't be aggression in an ugly sense against
our neighbors, family, or friends. It can be competetive
aggression in business, politics, or sports, or creative aggression
in the arts, in painting, sculpture, building—in
almost any field of endeavor. Even in communist countries
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