an old saying that anything goes at Carnival time. Carnival, as well as Halloween night is a time when the company, in a sense, is reversed. In the case of Halloween is the overthrow through the admixture of the world of the living with the dead, Carnival, however, it is thanks to a well-established tradition that leads us to believe, for one day only, different from what we are, helping us to cure us and not subvert the roles the actions that we commit while masked.
Mine is obviously an extreme. I wanted to romanticize the concept of form to introduce a topic related: that of deindividuation. The deindividuation is another mechanism, along with the rationalization behind the ' Lucifer Effect, which turns good people into carriers of destruction and death. Deindividuation works through an assumption which is in many ways similar to that of the Carnival We are not responsible for what we do when we're dressed.
A Carnival every joke is , namely, the actions committed to respond to the role which are not directly attributable to us. It would happen sometimes complain of blatant injustice of a measure by, perhaps, of a policeman, and when people say with a fairly typical sentence: "I'm only doing my job." Maybe sometimes you yourself will be surprised to meet someone in this way. At times, we are fortunate enough to play a role because we gave informed choice, but other times this role we are saddled on the other, and then that, responding in this way, we're not doing other things that trigger our personal, small process irresponsibility. I know I did when I was in charge of surveillance.
A mask is not necessarily something that covers the face, although covering the face is much more effective in terms of irresponsibility. Even a uniform, or a particular hairstyle, or a title or a pair of sunglasses can be a mask. In the movie The Mask played much on this theme: in this case, however, the role of the form is exactly opposite that Lucifer is not in effect. While
magic mask worn by Stanley Ipkiss deprived the hero of all brakes social, situational and systemic, revealing the true and terrible part of nature, "Zimbardo mask" works in reverse: it covers, dominates our true face, stifling and corrupting by means of various tricks our intentions.
I RPGs (real ones) are very insidious, because they can serve to corrupt and pervert our perception of reality. In general, I recognize how insidious any mechanism to deprive us of a slice of our sense of responsibility: it is a role, or a justification that we give to ourselves or the dehumanization of the other (which we will talk in depth). In particular, however, the roles are a formidable weapon-mask, that we turn against our critical sense and, sometimes, against other innocent people because they are an outfit that we can leave at the end of the day, when we stop working or when we abandon our role in general, and that we can throw in the basket of dirty laundry without curarcene then wear it again the next morning.
The Executioner is a stereotype hooded interesting and immediate: under the hood there is a normal man, which after being stained with the blood of the condemned, he returns home, stripped of its role and resumed his daily life, kiss the wife and embraces children from good family man, unaware of the contrast that exists between the performer and the role of educator. Well, almost.
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