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Blind Obedience - Sheeple Everywhere You Look

January 26th, 2010 at 12:57am Laurie

Que up It’s My Life….

I want to ask you something. Do you know what the Milgram Experiment was? No? Never heard of it huh? Not surprising. Very few have. It’s kind of like when average citizens were shown a blank world map with just country outlines and asked to place a pin on the country Greece. Some put their pin on Australia, some put theirs on Peru, some put it on Japan, others put it on Iceland. Sad and at the same time scary.

The Milgram Experiment was designed to show how everyday ordinary people like the ones that live next to you can be influenced by an authority figure to give out pain/punishment/torture to the point of serious bodily harm/death without so much as even a sliver of guilt or conscience. That innocent looking 30ish librarian with her hair in a bun could be the next Ted Bundy if an authority figure says “just continue”?? To moi that is seriously scary time.

Don’t believe Little Laurie that the innocent looking creature in the next car over could morph into a modern day lizzie Borden on a moments notice? Yea? Watch the 3 videos below and get ready to be very scared.

The original experiment was conducted in 1961 with 2/3’s of the people going all the way to deliver a lethal dose. The scary part is in 2009 the number of people going all the way is even higher. Watch the videos below of an updated 2009 version of the Milgram Experiment done by the BBC.

What could possibly explain why so many were willing to give a fatal dose three times in succession to a fellow human being? Bob Altemeyer (author of “The Authoritarians”) had this to say:

“The bigger reason has to be that the vast majority of us have had practically no training in our lifetimes in openly defying authority. The authorities who brought us up mysteriously forgot to teach that. We may desperately want to say no, but that turns out to be a huge step that most people find impossibly huge – even when the authority is only a psychologist you never heard of running an insane experiment. From our earliest days we are told disobedience is a sin, and obedience is a virtue, the “right” thing to do…

Milgram has shown us how hard it is to say no to malevolent authority, how easy it is to follow the crowd, and how very difficult it is to resist when the crowd is doing the biding of malevolent authority. It’s not that there’s some part of “No” we don’t understand. It’s that situational pressures, often quite unnoticed, temporarily strike the word from our vocabulary.”

I’ve had a distaste for authority figures since I was a wee little one. I don’t need anyone to follow nor listen to for instructions. I’m not looking for a surrogate mommy or daddy. Yes, perhaps the world does need billions of worker bees to blindly follow authority but count Little Laurie out. I suppose that’s why most would rather go on a 7K luxury tour of Europe aboard a 45 passenger motor coach with a tour guide rather than strike out on their own with nothing but a backpack, an outstretched thumb, 12 weeks and a zest for adventure.

Ready to take the red pill? Watch these 3 videos.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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This post was composed under the influence of It’s My Life by Talk Talk

Thought For The Day - Who Said This?

Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital … the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service. There was no place among this royalty for our many thousands of small business men and merchants who sought to make a worthy use of the American system of initiative and profit. They were no more free than the worker or the farmer…

The privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property…. And as a result… the hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor – these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family – other people’s money – these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in.

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