Book
Review
Superstition:
Belief in the Age of Science
Robert
L. Park
Robert L. Park wrote this book to show the human
inclination to understand an embrace the supernatural. This book tries to describe the connection
with things we cannot fully understand but try to. Park is trying to show us how individuals
simply try to find a way to explain the unexplainable with even taking the easy way out to get their point made
out. This just shows how people will try
to find a connection of any kind even if there is not one. Park is trying to convey to us that humans
will simply try, want, and need to make sense of things in our world to make
them feel more at ease.
My favorite part of this book that expresses this ideal
is that of the Tsunami God in which a tsunami hit along the Indian Ocean which
destroyed villages and killing so many people.
The people of this area were mainly Muslims believed it was a punishment
from their God because of several women showing their hair. This just clearly shows that something the
people could not explain, so they try to find a way to explain to justify
something that would benefit ways to get what they want out of people and even
stay in control.
I believe this relates to my favorite part of our text
for this class. It ties in with mass
hysteria and delusion, something that happened people try to justify it and
continue to use it to keep people in line.
It is like with the blogs I wrote about with the Jersey Devil and El
Chupcabra. Something that could not be
truly explained people find a way to use it to keep people in line. It is a prime explain of using social
psychology in its simplest form to get what they want out of the masses.
As
you can see even to this day people use such reasons to such reason to things
in my opinion to have control over others.
I
see how people still use this today because a lot of people are under educated
with the real world and influenced by what they hear from others. You have many cults, religious, and simply
crazy people using this to their advantage.
Telling people that possibly horrible things could happen to them or
others if they don’t follow and obey certain views in which they are told to. I believe this book can be used to introduce
people to the real world and make them up to the reality of life. I am not a superstitious person in anyway but
I believe we control our own fate but certain things can happen that our simply
out of our control. I just can that
being at the wrong place and the wrong time.
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