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Started by Lies, March 18, 2010, 06:37:25 AM

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Lies

March 18, 2010, 06:37:25 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20000614-503543.html

QuoteUnder the guise of a game show, complete with a studio audience, contestants pose various trivia questions to another participant. If the answer is incorrect, contestants literally flip the switch and shock the other player, with the voltage increasing (all the way up to 460 volts) as wrong answers continue to flow in

So it seems people have been repeating the milgram experiments again, except this time, it's all for the cameras.

It seems people are a lot more easily influenced when they have cameras on them and a encouraging crowd telling them to kill people.

Yeah, sure, this was only an experiment, but just wait, soon we'll have REAL programs with REAL people being encouraged to kill other REAL people with REAL pain.

Fuck, maybe I should get in on this idea before someone else does, a lot of money to be made off human deaths, I hear these days.
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

Reginald Ret

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March 18, 2010, 11:12:46 AM
I'd watch it.
Lord Byron: "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

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MMIX

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March 18, 2010, 01:09:28 PM
Quote from: Regret on March 18, 2010, 11:12:46 AM
I'd watch it.

I don't know if you can get the video on this but here's the Sky report
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/French-TV-Experiment-Which-Encouraged-Players-To-Torture-Another-Contestant-Condemned-In-France/Article/201003315575334?lpos=Strange_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15575334_French_TV_Experiment_Which_Encouraged_Players_To_Torture_Another_Contestant_Condemned_In_France

I was going to scaryurl the link actually but I think that is quite scary enough . . .

When I studied Milgram in college we always assumed that no reputable college ethics committee would ever let the Milgram programme be replicated and a lot of the power of Milgram, beyond the whole banality of evil thing, lies in this "uniqueness". So I'm quite intrigued that the 15 "psychologists" behind this "experiment" are not claiming any institutional affiliation. Maybe TV is the new educational institution which will take this kind of "research" forward. Onward to "The Running Man" we jolly well go . . .



PS I found this link to a recent Meta-analysis of DISobedience in the original Milgram test sets yesterday -
http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/spa/news2/Packer_Perspectives.pdf
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Doktor Howl

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March 18, 2010, 04:02:52 PM
Thread's been done.
Molon Lube

Vaudeville Vigilante

#4
March 18, 2010, 04:21:52 PM
Videodrome.

MMIX

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March 18, 2010, 06:36:01 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on March 18, 2010, 04:29:59 PM
related thread: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24517.0

related short story: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/cramulus/index.php?title=Jury_of_Peers

Thanks Cram, I've cross posted to the original thread.
I enjoyed the short story, too.
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Lies

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March 19, 2010, 02:45:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 18, 2010, 04:02:52 PM
Thread's been done.
Ah, really, sorry. Didn't notice.
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

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#8
March 20, 2010, 06:23:57 AM
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