Unquestioning Obedience

From Amy Tan’s “Saving Fish from Drowning:”

Like good little school children, they followed Black Spot into the rainforest. They did not even know his name. Yet they went blindly, willingly, going closer and closer to a tribe that had been waiting for them for more than a hundred years.

It is amazing, isn’t it, how easily people hand over the reins to those who presume power. Against their own intuition, they allow themselves to trust those who they feel should not be trusted. 
This book is written from the perspective of a recently murdered woman who is with her friends (unbeknownst to them, of course) on a trip to Burma that she had planned for them. Because of her state, she can see inside the inner person as well as the outer and thus provides the reader with some interesting insights.

It is interesting how the human psyche grapples until it finds a leader, someone or something to take the burden of responsibility.

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