Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA
Trust vs the Distancing Effect (20080418)
Some categories of attacks on identity systems are subversions of trust relationships, in which one party in the system is caused to act based on an incorrect assumption about its own trust relationships.
Walter Benjamin wrote in "What is Epic Theatre? (second version)"
The art of epic theatre consists in arousing astonishment rather than empathy. To put it as a formula, instead of identifying itself with the hero, the audience is called upon to learn to be astonished at the circumstances within which he has his being.