42thinkingJul 13

Warum tun wir oft mehr, als von uns verlangt wird – und wann wird das gefährlich? Der neue Blogbeitrag beleuchtet, wie vorauseilender Gehorsam entsteht, warum er ethische Risiken birgt und wie wir stattdessen mehr Eigenverantwortung wagen können. Lies, warum kritisches Denken wichtiger ist als blinder Aktionismus!

👉 https://42thinking.de/2025/05/vorauseilender-gehorsam/

#Selbstreflexion #Eigenverantwortung #KritischesDenken #Psychologie #Gesellschaft #Bürokratie #MilgramExperiment #HannahArendt #BanalitätDesBösen

🤘 The Metal Dog 🤘May 27

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THE AMATORY MURDER Release New Single / Video “Velvet Noose” From Upcoming Album, The Sounds Of Seven Angels

https://bravewords.com/news/the-amatory-murder-release-new-single-video-velvet-noose-from-upcoming-album-the-sounds-of-seven-angels/

#AmatoryMurder #VelvetNoose #SoundsOfSevenAngels #MilgramExperiment #StanleyMilgram #XianMurder #BinxNoir #ScottGenovese #JakeHaimowitz #Brooklyn

KayApr 12

Politico: #RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ called FDA employees ‘sock puppet’ of industry

In an apparent effort to encourage FDA employees to stay true to their mission of making Americans healthier, Kennedy later also referenced the #CIA’s Project #MKUltra — a notorious human experimentation program from the 1960s — and the #Milgramexperiment, a well-known study meant to test people’s willingness to obey authority even if it meant inflicting pain on others.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/rfk-jr-says-the-deep-state-is-real-references-past-work-with-the-retarded-in-private-speech-to-fda-staff-00286826

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 11

Sasha Abramsky says the shocking truth we have to learn with the Abrego Garcia case is that America is now one vast Milgram experiment:

"In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of Good Americans, people who seem incapable of rejecting unjust orders or understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty."

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #immigrants #deportations #authoritarianism #cruelty #MilgramExperiment
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-milgram-experiment/

the roamerFeb 1

A thoughtful long thread by @wdlindsy

On Trump's dehumanising policies, the support these seem to generate among many normal folks, and how this relates to the infamous Milgram experiments from the 1960s.

Not a very rosy train of reflections, so (contrary to my usual avoidance of QTs) I refer to the thread by link and I give this post a CW.

Thank you to @wdlindsy for his thought-provoking thread.

https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113929408245844500

#Trump #MilgramExperiment #StanleyMilgram #BanalityOfEvil #USpol

William Lindsey :toad: (@wdlindsy@toad.social)

It's being reported now that Trump's approval rating is the highest it has ever been. I watch, unsurprised at the widespread approval of my fellow Americans as the federal government is dismantled, websites taken down, Black and female history erased from government websites, trans people erased, foreign-born people are targeted, hounded, rounded up, shipped out, economic policies that will inflict huge pain on us are enacted, etc. #Trump #MilgramExperiment /1

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 1

We will only learn the hard way, it seems, when things fall apart and we ourselves are hurt by the cruelty we have freely, gladly chosen for others — many of us, choosing it, even as we brandish our bibles and our crosses and trot off to church to sing and pray.

#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 1

When a cunning dictator-to-be harnesses that lust to attain power and inflames that lust in a large sector the population, the consequences are always beyond brutal — including for the very people who applauded him, voted him into office, told him he was doing a splendid job as he hurt their "enemies."

#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 1

This is America! he was told. Germans may have acted that way. We don't, not in America.

His experiment has been replicated over the years in different periods of time and different cultural-social circumstances. Each time, the results are the same.

There is a deep lust inside us to demean, attack, harm, erase targeted others.

#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 1

As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.

A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….

Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.

#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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William Lindsey Feb 1

It's being reported now that Trump's approval rating is the highest it has ever been.

I watch, unsurprised at the widespread approval of my fellow Americans as the federal government is dismantled, websites taken down, Black and female history erased from government websites, trans people erased, foreign-born people are targeted, hounded, rounded up, shipped out, economic policies that will inflict huge pain on us are enacted, etc.

#Trump #MilgramExperiment
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