#the wave

[freshwaterbear]

visit the wiki page for wave (audience) for more fun facts!

[nemfrog]

Body surfing. My health habits. Book three. 1930.

Internet Archive

[angelique-of-the-volturi-guard]

All the political discourse rn and I have seen NOBODY talking about The Third Wave???? Do you know what that is???? No???? Well Imma tell you! in 1967 high school teacher Ron Jones conducted an experiment during a lecture on the holocaust when they couldn't understand how the German people could allow the Nazi's to do such things to the jewish people. Jones started a movement called "The Third Wave" and told his students that the movement aimed to eliminate democracy. Jones postulated that democracy’s focus on individuality was against mankind’s “authoritarian” nature, which he aimed to emphasize with the movement’s motto: "Strength through discipline, strength through involvement." and only made simple changes on the first day like asking his students to sit properly, to raise their hands before speaking, and to address him as Mr. Jones. The experiment was meant to be only one day, but the students took to it. On day two a salute was made and the movement was called the third wave. It began to grow as his students not only took to his tactics, but other students wanted to join in. The line "Strength through community" was added in. And then on the third day as the movement grew again, the motto "Strength through action" was added. Students were given member cards, taught how to initiate new members, and were instructed to report anyone who did not abide by the rules. By the fourth day the experiment was blowing out of Jones' control so he told the students that it was a nationwide movement, and that he next day a presidential candidate of the Third Wave would announce its existence to the public. Students were asked to attend a rally at noon the next day, and three students who dissented were banished to the library while the rally was held- where jones had other friends pretend to be speakers before revealing the "president" of the movement: Adolf Hitler.

It emphasized being careful about who you follow. The experiment was made into a tv movie in 1981 called The Wave (which I highly recommend watching btw), and shows how easily people can fall into fascism. Please watch it or read the novel of the same name by Todd Strasser, or Check out the wikipedia page. Get yourself educated and use what you learn to protect your loved ones please.

[nobrashfestivity]

Aristide Maillol The Wave (La Vague), 1895

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[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Guillaume Seignac (French, 1870-1929) La vague (The wave), n.d.

[7pleiades7]

La Vague (The Wave), (Detail), (1896), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 – 1905), signed and dated (bottom): ‘W BOUGUEREAU 1896’, oil on canvas, 121 cm (47.6 in) x 160.5 cm (63.1 in), Private Collection

[buddiegoingcanon2026]

Ryan and Oliver getting the audience to do the wave.