| I can't remember that experiment, but another experiment that springs to mind was the electric shock experiment.
Participants (random people selected from a college crowd) were given buzzers. When pressed, the "victim" would be given an electric shock.
The participants asked the victims questions, and if the victims answered wrong, they were allowed to shock them. Apparently, the parcipants were quite liberal with the electric shocks.
(In reality, I think the victims were just actors pretending to be shocked, but the parcipants thought they were really being sent electrical jolts).
People are pretty sick, eh? Here's to the poor fools who wonder why communism and any utopian social theory failed.
Ideological loyalty is the act of giving your soul to a vague concept, to be manipulated by people smarter than you. |