In the 21st Century there’s nowhere to hide. The cultures of the past are known. The subcultures of today are expressive. It’s hard not to see. It’s also interesting to look into. This makes most ways that most people live to be encyclopaedic in reach.
The grey area is our singular behaviour. It’s the reach of a politician for a glass of water. It’s in the choice of lasagne and not pasta in a restaurant. These are the types of choices that students of psychology, or indeed sociology, see to be exciting.
The backroom of this scientific endeavour is less savoury. The cause is not study, but manipulation. Once such group exist in New York, called “New York Heights”. It was a fanatics cult, not comprising of religious adherents but criminal lunatics, and freaks.
They “studied” societal happenstance’s as if they were telling insights into our guilt consciousness, or a sort of awareness of ourselves that’s built into psychology as we get older. The falseness in such theories was a dangerous bent to control others.
