Research question : ” How does power and leadership change the social order” 1
After finished the book “ The Wave“, a question come to me: Can a person with strong power are able to change the society? Or even a nation?
A good example of this question was Martin Luther King , who encouraged thousand of black people in U.S to fight for their freedom and respect. What shocked me is the spirits of King’s followers, and even King was surprise that his followers are so loyalty and trust-worthless to him. King believed the best solution for discrimination is to forgive each others, he do not encourage his followers solve the problems through an unreasonable solutions such as against the cops, however, he only have power to persuade a group, not to stop a group.
Same in ” The Wave“, the founder of ” Wave” never expect to spread his party that so far, and finally he was involve in this impasses.
Relate to the question , we see that every leaders never want their parties into an unmanageable situation.
One factor that can cause a crowd into mad is the faith of a person, in general, a faith is a spiritual force of a person, and a understanding of the importance of this faith is propaganda or expand it.
Mrs T
I think you may be getting into an interesting topic here, Jan, when you think about faith being a spiritual force which gives a person or group of people power. This faith, as you say, can cause what we often refer to as ‘mass hysteria’ – a group of people being swept along on a tidal wave of emotion that can lead to unexpected consequences. This may be an interesting focus for you to take as you explore further these concepts of power and leadership.