Direct Democracy: Everyone is a Chief
Gary ‘Z’ McGee – When obedience to authority becomes one of the highest virtues in a society, you know you are on a slippery slope toward tyranny.
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Shocking Social Experiments Demonstrate Why Conformity and Blind Obedience to Authority Have Gone Viral
Dylan Charles – We are hard wired for social conformity, and it’s one of the most dangerous aspects of the human condition.
3 Things Sheeple Do That You Don’t Have To
Dylan Charles – We are not sheep, we are human beings, so let’s act like it.
Why Do Some People Support Tyranny While Others Defy It?
Brandon Smith – In our modern era, people cannot merely be ordered to submit at gunpoint, at least not right away. They must be tricked into conforming.
The Abyss We Refuse to See
Gary ‘Z’ McGee – How does the abyss we refuse to see become the abyss we can no longer ignore?
Must Mankind Bow to False Gods?
Julian Rose – Public obedience to the beast is simply another form of insanity.
Big Brother Depends on Little Brothers
Barry Brownstein – “Many ‘free’ minds have given up the struggle for decency and individuality. They surrender to the ‘Zeitgeist,’ often without being aware of it.”
3 Ways Human Psychology is Being Exploited to Create an Obedient, Self-Policing Society
Dylan Charles – When these dynamics are in play at the mass level we become obedient and self-policing.
Experiment Demonstrates the Deadly Power of Social Compliance
Dylan Charles – Could you be talked into murder?
The Seven Reasons We Obey Authority
Phillip Schneider – Rebels are a very important part of society, but they rarely get the recognition they deserve.
Modern Psychology Doing its Part to Mass Produce Obedient Sheeple
Dylan Charles – This is the foundation of the Brave New World.
Are You Damaging Your Child by Demanding Obedience?
Authentic Parenting In our current culture, parents are praised when their children are obedient – it’s a mark of good parenting. The quieter and the more obedient the child, the better. In truth, parents are doing a disservice to their children and to society when they demand that their children do exactly as they are …
How Obedient Are You?
Steve Pavlina, Guest Waking Times In the early 1960s, Yale professor Stanley Milgram conducted a serious of famous psychological experiments to measure people’s obedience to authority. A volunteer was instructed by an experimenter to help administer a simple test to a subject in another room. Cards were drawn to determine which of two “volunteers” would play each …
The Psychology of Tyranny vs. the Nature of Conformity
The foundation for understanding the psychology of tyranny and human obedience is based on classical studies such as the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Do The Many Really Have to Obey the Few? Asking Permission From the Government
Jan Fox, Wakeup World Waking Times I remember in grade school that some of the boys in class were being disruptive by talking and the nun told us all to stand and put out our hands so she could smack our hand with a ruler. About half the class stood up and put out their …
Are You Damaging Your Child by Demanding Obedience?
In our current culture, parents are praised when their children are obedient – it’s a mark of good parenting. The quieter and the more obedient the child, the better. In truth, parents are doing a disservice to their children and to society when they demand that their children do exactly as they are told, no questions asked. In other words, expecting children to dutifully comply with their parents commands, right away, is not such a great idea in the long run.