Hello, I am Stanley Milgram, a psychologist known for my experiments on obedience to authority. One of my most famous studies demonstrated a striking reality about human behavior: “80% of the population does not have the psychological or moral wherewithal to defy authority, no matter how illegitimate the orders and rules may be.” In essence, people follow the herd, often without questioning the morality or legitimacy of the directives they are given. When I conducted my experiments in the 1960s, the backdrop was the aftermath of World War II and the atrocities committed under authoritarian regimes. The question was simple: How could ordinary people commit such horrors under orders? The results were sobering. In my study, participants were instructed to administer what they believed were painful electric shocks to another person. Despite hearing cries of pain, the majority continued when urged by an authority figure. They chose obedience over critical thinking and moral responsibility.
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80% of the population does not have the psychological or moral wherewithal to defy authority - Stanley Milgram
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There’s something really odd with this video - it looks AI generated.
It 100% is. They need to be transparent about this because it detracts from what is actually a powerful message.
I totally agree. The message is spot on but Stanley Milgram died in 1984 so I don't believe he was giving out web addresses
Absolutely. I knew right away it was AI and that scared me - what happens when the technology improves to the point that we can’t tell? I remember when the study “he” references first came out. Facts speak for themselves and a good cautionary tale for times without any gimmicks. And we need to be aware that experiments of this type are now banned. Study participants were traumatized by their experience.
Yes it is an AI animation of a stock photo of Milgram stating a quote from his writings.
It is
How so if you have the time?
Now…to Question…..this guy DIED in 1984….BEFORE any internet addresses.
Your intentions may be honourable but I DON’T LIKE IT.
I agree. This is hypocrisy. They may mean well in some way but it harms the movement, that of being the 20% that are the example of how to be , and this AI generated video is the antithesis of that.
Dang. I didn’t know when he died.
Still, this message needs to get out.
20%. I’m part of the hell no muthafucka 20%.
Right there with ya, sistah!
Exactly what I was thinking!! I’ve NEVER been a follow the herd kinda girl! Used to second guess myself at times when younger or made me occasionally “wish I was normal”, if nothing else just to visit for just a few moments the seemingly peaceful uncomplicated “herd” mentality (or lack thereof)! It’d be nice to flip a switch and relax in some blissfully ignorant/obliviousness! Hey a girl can dream!!! At least until I smack myself in the face like Cher in Moonstruck “Snap out of it!” I wouldn’t last 5 minutes who am I kidding - especially being the deep thinky knowledge thirsty beyotch that I am! Lol! So now I proudly fly my freak flag, embrace my inner rebel and stand at the ready to DO SOMETHING - before something is done TO me and/or us!!! ✨♾️✨
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I don’t take orders from domininionist nazis fyi. Weirdest petting zoo ever!
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Keep your filthy language to you're dirty self !.
Don’t use BULLSHIT to try to promote a legitimate idea! Are you crazy
? We need real people in a real timeline to be speaking up.
Awareness is the first step toward change!
Always question authority…have courage.
And don’t become one of the 80%‼️‼️
Be the 20%!
Sounds about right I saw that experiment
I think 80 percent of the population just cares about themselves. And as long as they're not negatively impacted by the storms in life … they don't bother to address them.
Let’s see, in Europe , many countries that were in the Soviet Bloc protested in mass and won their freedom. Lithuania, Poland, Georgia, East Germany, and many other countries stood up to the dictatorship. We had the had the Anti-Vietnam protests of the 60’s. The Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s. Don’t underestimate today’s Americans. They’ll meet the challenge of this authoritarian trump administration. It may not happen overnight but it will come to past.
The irony is that most protests have leadership! Without leadership they wouldn't have happened.
Ha the authoritarian spying listing doj and fbi were criminally spying on us and putting us in lists all through BIDEN administration !! Get your facts
UNIPARTY.
Wow! This gentleman said it so well, and so succinctly. His words and message still have life long after their utterance. They are still as true today as much as they were likely true back then. THIS is why in this moment we must ALL show up, and speak up. We never know when what we know in our cores reach out and impact those living in the future - our current times.
Human nature is human nature. So what mistakes we made in yesteryears we are likely to revisit again in the future, to resolve once again, unless we keep the lesson alive about the pain of these times alive for those that will follow.
The author is right; critcal thinking and moral wherewithal truly matter. Without having had these assets modeled around us, as well as cultivated within us, we will likely fall prey to the changing political climates of the times we're in. We will allow others to disturb our peace by causing unfounded fear and widespread panic. With critcal thinking and moral wherewithal inculcated vastly into our communities, and beyond, we can live more peacefully, internally, and we will clearly see any approaching, ill-intended intruders recklessly passing lies as truth, creating havoc where we give them inroads: places of doubt and uncertainty.
Practice stillness and inner calm so we can better discern those intent on spreading chaos and panic. That is how we will recognize them - by their fruit - be it sour or sweet. If we truly know ourselves and what is inherently precious, that we cannot so easily replace, we will not so carelessly let it slip through our fingers, and instead, guard our peace and liberties at every turn.
We must learn to recognize the enemy before they're at our very doors. Teach the children well about safeguarding their Godly inheritance, living precious and free, as well as the importance of passing them down for the next generations to come.
Be well!
Christy 🇺🇲❤️🕊
This is an AI animation of a stock photo of Milgram who died in 1984. Gina Perry is the author of “Behind the Shock Machine - The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Experiments”. Here is a link to an interview with Gina Perry https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/psychology-teacher-network/activities-books/behind-shock-machine
I could never understand this myself. I have never been this way even as a small child. I see these so called people as weak and no one that I want to be near. I have nothing in common with stupid ignorant beings.
The dumbing down of America has happened.
I saw a video of a mother being taking away as her teenage daughter watched. It’s was so heartbreaking and I couldn’t stop thinking how can they do this? I saw this study a few years ago and how it played out. It’s was shocking but it is a sad truth.
His book Obedience to Authority is not just good. It’s immortal brilliance on a McLuhan level.
He hasn’t met me yet
We already did defy. I didn’t take the jab!
I showed the film of this Milgram experiment in my legal studies classes years ago. It is indeed an astounding thing to see it happening.
People vote for politicians with their wallet.
Then they complain about the politicians corruptness.
It’s THE MESSAGE… not necessarily THE MESSENGER…
Funny cuz I defied all. Never paid taxes, no DL, I don’t follow the norm, the norm call me crazy. I’m also alone cuz they can’t handle real intelligence and fortitude. So fuck that Jew !
I see people automatically collapse to authority because they don't trust their own, or they are moral morons, or most often moral cowards. All my life I've watched these psychopathic bullies steam roll over people because nobody will stand in their way. Nobody will challenge them and hardly anyone thinks for themselves or more accurately, think for themselves but won't speak up. I see those people all the time, you see it their eyes. They know. They know better but won't speak up and those are the ones that will kill you and they claim innocence or ignorance. Full of them around here. It's almost evil. It's better to speak up rather than give up and I think most people are just cowards and it's easier to give in and assuage your conscience with any excuse that will do rather than do the right thing.
Covid was a great example of bullies in the media, politics, government, work place who were rule bound, which is what I call it. There is a rule and they will inflexibly obey it without question. It gives them (false) moral virtue. They are morally incapable of perusing the right decision because it is easier letting someone else take the responsibility and they can be the executioner. Then they are NEVER afraid to speak up because someone else is taking the blame and telling them that being a bully is in the best interest of society. Emergency measures and all that bullcrap. They can eat their hero biscuit and claim their virtue all in one fell swoop. I literally want to punch people like this in the head and during covid there were plenty seeking to get punched. Most people don't question authority like it is correct by weight of it's own existence. The government who is the largest authority in the land is wrong so often, and lies so much it's a bloody miracle anyone listens at all but they can't wait to fall in line. My head literally hurts from shaking it so damned often in the last 4 years. Trust is a terrible thing to waste on government because they wore it out a very long time ago, and now the police, military, medical and justice "authorities" (there it is again) have joined them in disgrace and pulled the innocent down along with them. 80%? I'd say more like 97%.
If that includes the military…I'm counting on that 20% to take out our national threat.
Sheeple dumbed down
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Well your results may not be correct. Resistance is growing.
And yet 20% of us do.
Thanks for sharing!
Stanley Milgram! I just finished watching the 1969 debate between him and Martun Orne. Martin Orne argued demand characteristics and Stanley, obedience. For the life of me I couldn't see how that mattered. I assume their is an underlying argument to each that neither expressed. And perhaps the two, demand and obedience, are intertwined.
In any case, you get a good feel as to the workings of the scientists at that time, and how they were perceived by their colleagues. I enjoyed it.
The video is on youtube.
“Despite hearing cries of pain, the majority continued when urged by an authority figure. They chose obedience over critical thinking and moral responsibility. “
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You clearly haven't studied today's students in high school, lol
This does not bode well for us.
he’s wrong. his experiments were a joke.
Right now, I'm seeing well over 50% fighting back. A little glimmer of hope ?
Sorry, using AI , even if your message may otherwise be worthwhile, just earns you a block.
Do better. There are ways to be creative that don’t involve theft.
In this instance (and I hate AI), I think the message is so important and on point that I’m not perturbed that it’s AI.
I remember this from my psych 101 class!
Yes, I remember learning about this study. Maybe we should teach kids to question authority when it doesn't make sense to them.
That explains the magat cultists.
Just wake up to the fact Stalin genocided 20million of his own thru 1932, Adolf wasn’t even appointed the 3rd•Temp till ‘33;
By 1941 Ghoul Stalin + murdering Soviet murdered another 20million of his own and invaded 6 nations YET all that talked about is Adolf, and none have a clue as WHY & HOW he even was there because they’ve actually no idea rooted in the truth;
Stalin made a piker of Adolf’s entire career before Adolf was even in the scene as a Temp. is 33, let alone the 100million he helped slaughter befor the monster finally croaked his last:
Seems some bright person might wanna understand the real history of what went on in the lead up directly because of U.S. either wrong involvement or no involvement shen it should have;
Instead of the Globalist funded U.S. BigEd. tells them what to regurgitate as whatever they’re told to, I’m growing weary of trying to connect folks with actual reality that was 80+% ommitted as is ALL the other Fake News & U.S. Educational Globalist outlets…!
Thot maybe people were rsady to connect the real dots that draw the true bigger picture ehich is nothing as they’ve bern told to tink→ sefi us research would reveal it all IF it actually occurred to any serious history buffs to want to get it right finally…!!!
I guess how many of the 20% who don’t happen to be on the spectrum!?
Yup. History teaches us Autocracy’s a car crash waiting to happen
https://justhinkin.substack.com/p/autocracy-a-suicide-machine?r=3cs2wr
So obviously AI
What is true is what is true for you. No one has any right to force data off on you and command you to believe it or else. If it is not true for you, it isn’t true. Be your own adviser, keep your own counsel and select your own decisions.
"Authority" is a myth to which its entire premise rests upon a logical fallacy called argumentum ad baculum.
Not to mention they don’t allow free speech
Media has already crippled the minds of those without critical thinking and moral integrity.
AI
What was the uptake of the covid jab? 80%, he was right
The experiments were bullshit. A lot of the students understood what was going on and played the researchers. Trying to run these kind of ‘social experiments’ in a laboratory setting is a fantasy. The midwits designing them don't understand the endless variables that cannot be controlled for.
CGI
Your not old enough to have conducted experiments in 1960?
Fascist Totalitarianism is in Control and the People are Falling into Lockstep with it .
The source & driving force of today's & greatest SATANIC Evil are the jewish Zionists (Freemasons & so-called Illuminati as Organizers) together with the goyimic Globalists/ with the souls of the same kind, that mostly hide their conversion to Judaism and Talmudism.
The satanic Talmud, The Book of the Kahal & The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - In brief (The main features of the ancient jewish-satanic plan to enslave all goyim, i.e. the whole world, and their inner organization are summarized in these books, and the nature of their being as well) https://mile7bar.substack.com/p/the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion
I see this tendency in many people in my neighborhood.
Speak your truth.
Now, just don’t allow yourself to be compromised by those who hate Trump or think that he is Hitler. Because he’s not.
Absolutely Correct 👍
Look at this dogshit fraud robot garbage.
Fuck yourself
I am so terribly frightened I am a follower
That’s 80%too many sheeple on this planet
Says he died in 1984 and yet he is using 21st century jargon. It's fake.
Maybe when he did his experiment. The number must be higher 2025.
The Milgram Experiments….
Fritz Haber… inventor of poison Gas…
Oppenehimer Atom Bomb…
Hitler was a Rothschild…
Covid 19 Behavioral Modification exercise…
The War mongrols of Ukraine…
The Jewish Curse: Groupthink and Mass Manipulation
Understanding the Enemy... selling Cancer as the Cure
The Jews have studied Humanity like the Alien Race they are only to use this knowledge against Humanity
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/the-jewish-curse-groupthink-and-mass
Well that explains why the left follows whatever social agenda is pushed out to them. They don't want to be shunned or canceled.
Reminds me of the book: Ordinary Men; about a Polish police department which turned into a murder and torture squad for the Nazis during WW2.
What, like in Australia?
Similar.
https://a.co/d/2H1Ne0W
Sure.
AI
This guy looks like a Neanderthal .
This Milgram moral authority experiment was a film I viewed in college psychology class.
“Because he told me to”, was the reason people shocked a subject, even to what looked like death.
Interesting, that’s kind of my mental model for the population at large
Great message from the Uncanny Valley 😬
Thois is information we need to reminded of the frailty of human beings and their attraction to filing the authority at hand.
Actually if you read his other studies- this was one of many- people actually do