David and Goliath by BusinessNews Publishing

Author:BusinessNews Publishing
Language: fra
Format: epub
Publisher: FichesdeLecture.com
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

2. You begin to act like you have invulnerability and this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy

In 1937, the British military command carried out a study predicting what would happen if London were attacked by the Nazis. They forecast 600,000 deaths and mass panic in the streets requiring the army to be deployed to keep the order. The army even set up several large psychiatric hospitals on the outskirts of the city to handle the anticipated flood of panicked civilians who would need treatment there.

In the fall of 1940, the Nazi blitz of London became a reality. For eight months, German bombers pounded London relentlessly. More than a million buildings were destroyed and forty thousand people were killed but nobody panicked. Instead of mass hysteria or widespread civil unrest, Londoners pretty much stoically went about their business as per normal. The hospitals on the outskirts of the city were switched over to military use because nobody needed them.

When social scientists analyzed this phenomena after the war, they concluded that bombing a city doesn't have the effect the military thinks it will have. In practical terms, the survivors tend to fall into three groups:

Those who have one of their family members killed by the bombs – and for whom the experience is devastating and profound.

The near misses – those who experience the blast, see the destruction and suffer some kind of post-event shock.

The remote misses – the people who see the bombers overhead and perhaps even hear bombs exploding a few streets away.

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