9.14.2007

Obey!

Milgram later commented, "I would say, on the basis of having observed a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town."(Article)
Or anywhere, I would suspect....


And then there's the Stanford prison experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo:

Not even "innocent" children are immune to the effects of socialized hate:
Part 1 of Frontline's "A Class Divided"

THEY can get to anyone one of us.

1 comment:

Middle Child said...

Unbelievable...but sadly all too believable. My husband was in an electric chair from 33 till 56 when he died ...we learnt only to soon the none too subtle ways society has whilst wearing a gemial face... Thanks for this SNAG