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listening to an old series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue from 2006 & there's a joke there about how young children should avoid Jimmy Savile. it got a big (although uneasy) laugh youtu.be/l9Kivsk7p0g?t=1081Permalink Look on archive.org
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like, as his Wikipedia article says "During Savile's lifetime, sporadic allegations of child abuse were made against him dating back to 1963", but it's still striking to stumble acrossPermalink Look on archive.org
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really makes me think about the way that people know but nothing happens. not until everyone knows everyone knows. not until it's a topic that's been raised.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the way news can happen once and no-one cares, and then it can happen again 9 months later and it can possibly bring down the government @PickardJE/1486974224854138880?s=20&t=KsOS39W5k16TCjS6ItqMkgPermalink Look on archive.org
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or, for a less despairing example, in the first episode of Station Eleven (heavily paraphrased): - how did you know he was having a heart attack before everyone else? - i don't think i did. i think i was just the first one to do something about it.Look on archive.org
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the Bystander Effect is about how when a crisis happens, people don't respond because no-one else is responding. this is a little different because there are people acting. people yelling about it! but no-one responds, so they conclude, rationally enough, that no-one will respondPermalink Look on archive.org
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and of course, they're probably right. how many things pass by and never do become "a thing"?Permalink Look on archive.org
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(incidentally, studies into the Bystander Effect were triggered by the murder of Kitty Genovese, and news reports that 38 eyewitnesses watched & did nothing. except that the reports were flawed (there were far fewer witnesses), and several did in fact call the police.)Permalink Look on archive.org