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“Many Of Us Really Are Sheep: 
Experiments in social compliance show few people argue with authority figures.”
by Lance D Johnson

(Natural News) “Many of us really are sheep, quick to follow the crowd and obey orders. Instead of standing up and speaking out on our own convictions, we often choose to fit in. Assimilating with the crowd, we find it’s easier to go-along to get-along, even if that means giving away our own power, rights, and dignity in the process. In fear of isolation, we do not question or challenge authority figures, even when they are morally and ethically wrong.

Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram unveiled this sad reality of human behavior in a social compliance experiment that showed how ordinary people will torture others under the social pressures of an authority figure. Milgram wondered why Nazi military personnel were so easily influenced to inflict torture and death on innocent people. His experiment gave us a window into the compliant nature of human psychology.

The experiment, detailed in Milgram’s 1974 book, “Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View,” shows that when people are under the influence of an authority figure, they are easily coerced to repeatedly hurt others. In the experiment, Milgram asked volunteers to deliver an electric shock to a stranger. The volunteers didn’t know they would be shocking actors who were pretending to be hurt. Even after inflicting visible pain on others, the volunteers would continue to shock them only when they were ordered to do so by an authoritarian person in a lab coat. Even when the victims feigned heart attacks, only a small percentage of the volunteers chose to defy the orders of the authority figure. Most continued to torture their victims. According to Dylan Charles for Waking Times“The suggested conclusion is that people are inherently unable to think for themselves when given a subordinate role in some authoritarian hierarchy such as the role of the ordinary citizen in a state-controlled world. A documentary of this experiment can be seen here.

A personal story of questioning authority and standing up for parental rights: When visiting a church with my wife and three-year-old, we were initially told to register our kid in their computer system, obtain a number ID, and wear tags so that church security staff could properly identify the child and the parents. When our daughter cried during the church service, my wife went into the nursery for five minutes to help her get used to playing in there. A watchful staff member outside the nursery walked in and told my wife that ‘only people with background checks are allowed in the nursery.’ The staff member watched her closely, but my wife refused to leave our child even though she was pressured to.

When my wife brought our daughter back to the church service, I decided to take my daughter back to the nursery myself, passing two security guards on the way. I unintentionally disobeyed their rule, thinking it was natural to stay with my child to help her get acquainted with the nursery. Later that week, we questioned church authority on the matter. We were told that this is their policy, that parents must ask for their child and not cross into the nursery unless they submit to a criminal background check. Applying social pressure, they told us no one had ever had a problem with the policy. In the end, they only wanted us to listen and obey the rules, for which I responded, “I cannot guarantee that I would, since this is our kid” and we are free as parents to be where our kid is, if need be.”

The church may have rules that their staff undergoes a background check, but the church authority has no right to keep parents out of a place where their kid is being kept.

Social pressure and compliance illustrated in Netflix documentary, “The Push”A Netflix documentary titled, “The Push”, explores this obedience-driven group psychology further, showing how readily people hand over control and authorship of their own lives. The need to belong can drive most people to act in unethical and violent ways just to fit in. Even with a little authoritarian pressure, people will give in to immoral demands, shunning any bit of courage they might have had. With no conviction or individual standards to go by, many will bend to authority to please the manmade hierarchical structures that have been formed by group think and the needs of the group to feel that they belong.

This is prevalent in “The Push”. In the opening scene, a café worker takes a phone call from a police officer and within a minute is convinced to abduct a woman’s baby. At first the café worker showed hesitation, but ultimately carried out the wrongful act under the social pressure of the authoritarian figure.

In another elaborate experiment, participants are slowly coerced to comply with the demands of a persistent authority figure and the pressure of a small group of others. By the end of the experiment, the participants were so compliant; they actually took orders to push actors off of a building, believing they were doing the right thing by committing the murder.

Most people are wired to take orders and feel as if they belong, even if that means relinquishing their own power sacrificing their integrity, or trouncing on someone else’s human rights along the way. (For more stories on exercising personal freedom, visit Liberty.News.)


Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2018/04/many-of-us-really-are-sheep.html



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    • diane

      This ‘tendency’ to submit to authority has its roots in how a large portion of Americans are subjected to respecting ‘authority’ from infancy. Do not misconstrue nor conflate this statement to mean anything else beyond what it states. Some level of respect is necessary and sufficient, especially for the youngest among us. The very young have no life experience to gauge that which is dangerous and or life ending. Beyond the basic “don’t play with level fire” of guidance, everything else is at the very least borderline mental abuse.

      We as a society, as a general rule, raise the young with way to many Do’s and Don’ts that the poor young folks have little or know critical thinking skills. In effect, their ‘intellectual wings’ have been clipped. Yes there are exceptions to every general rule, however, the exceptions do not invalidate the general.

      So, with the general population thus stilted in thinking for themselves, it cannot be revelatory in anyway that these experiments yield the stated conclusions. The results of these experiments are in fact the only consequence in consideration of the mental content people carry around in their brains.

      Well, perhaps this experiment has not ended. There is a significant portion of the American population today being subjected to all kinds harassment and torture in their daily lives. The tormentors have succumbed to a Svengali kind of mind trick at the ‘hands’ of those “authority figures”. These individuals have been unleashed upon society in general inflicting this nightmare on undeserving ‘victims’. The abuse can range from mental/verbal to directly physical. It is often done in such a stealthy manner that the target can appear to be mentally unstable to those around them.

      Understanding that such stealthy attacks upon targeted individuals does occur, the TI’s loved ones can start helping by accepting the TI is indeed and in fact being attacked. No, you may or may not be able to intervene to end the harassment. If it is at all possible to end it, for the sake of the targeted individual, by all means do not tarry a moment to bring such nightmare to an end as soon as humanly possible. If however you are unable to do that, then at least be empathetically compassionate towards the TI. Such empathy and compassion will go a long way to at least ease the soul crushing experience to which a fellow human is subjected to.

      I offered this brief comment on behalf of my beloved Diane, a TI for over four years. She suffered many of these attacks; poisoning of food, electromagnetic radiation attacks, stalking, medical implants upon the heart, etc. She has been through a hell on earth at the hands of the most dastardly uncaring people to walk among us. The worst of the wretched are the ones recruiting the ‘field operatives’ to carry out acts that which they themselves are too corrupt and cowardly commit themselves. Authority can be a very potent weapon in the hands of the unethically unprincipled. As for the ‘field operatives’ they too are victims, the robots with out the brainpower to distinguish right from wrong. Their participation in such schemes is as reprehensible as their ‘masters’. I heap infinite sham upon all of them. In this day and age the “I’m just doing my/a job” gambit no longer exonerates anyone this planet of any immoral, unethical act towards anyone.

      - Gerry B.

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