The Psychology of Obedience to perceived Power

[TEARDUCTER]

Promises are like Babies easy to make hard to deliver :)

[carefulcarpenter]

I spoke out recently against a representative of the utility company who used deceptive tactics to fulfill his role in the hierarchy. Interesting how my neighbors cowered and turned away as I confronted the agent. I felt they were shunning me as I revealed how the deception is repeated against their own interests.

You have brought up a great point: the Psychology of Obedience to Perceived Expertise and authority.

I'm becoming less accepted in my "progressive" neighborhood.

[Zyworski]

If you think that it is bad when the lobotomized lemmings of the New Age are are seduced by the siren call of perceived authority, just wait till they get some authority of their own. In the Stanford prison experiment the subjects assigned as guards adapted to their roles well beyond what was expected, leading the "Officers" to display authoritarian measures and ultimately to subject some of the prisoners to torture. Conversely many of the prisoners became passive and accepted physical abuse.

[valhala56]

The only Obama supporters I can think of is Beltway Obama Minions. Outside of Politicians folowing orders, and his Corporate backers and Party Lackeys I can't think of anybody in middle America who still supports the Polite Führer.

Everybody I talk to is at best dissapointed most harbor extreme dislike of his policies and favortism to the Wall Street & Military Industrial Complex Power Cartels.

[airforcemax]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!

[badattitude77769]

Authority figures do not always get there by hard work and honesty, many are members of the good old boys club, and those are some that you have to watch out for, they are beholden to the club, not you nor your family.

[tenebroust]

Excellent video Ella. Those experiments were made into a movie that came out last year I think. We need more broad philosophical thinking these days.

[OrwellsDaughter]

Excellent vid, Ella...which is really redundant at this point since all your vids are superb.

You've inspired me to make a response vid...will start uploading now...you'll likely be in Winkin Blinkin & Nod ville by the time it's up.

[IChoseTheRedPill]

i love you in a i love the universe kind of way. every one of your videos seem well thought out. that said, you always make me think about things in a way i rarely have an opportunity to do so. your passion is contagious, i get myself in trouble with my wife when i try to engage her politically. sadly she is one of those people who think the world is 6000 years old but i still love her with all my heart.

man is capable of terrible things. one day our military will be used against us...

Kensho

[manque15]

I was telling my US friend today about our prime minister and what she's doing to our country and he thought what I was telling him was a joke! I feel like Im living in some sort of ghoulish cartoon that I can't wake from ! The world has fallen asleep and the snake oil salesmen have taken control!

[Boomer1949]

Ella, I watched the whole video (I admit I don't on some) because I recently ran across these experiments (again) in a documentary I was watching. I tried to lie to myself and say I would never do that, no matter what they told me but under certain circumstances (personal threat or threat to my family) who knows how far I would go. I've always bucked authority, beginning very young. On the flip side, I'm protective of people I love. Tell me I have to do this to protect and I will.

[55ella2007k]

@TheElMoIsEviL Yes, it is a betrayal...not just compromise. But remember, the spectrum has shifted so far to the right, that anyone left of center (at least here, in the States) is now considered a radical communist. Just like during the good old McCarthy days...same shit, all over again. Only now, they are going for a much wider swath, both internally and globally. Don't give up, Rick !!!

[SkidRowRadio]

excellent video. faved. tweeted. : )

[mrgoodvibrations]

Seem a prerequisite of being a politition nowadays is you have to be a 2 faced JANUS creature.

[DynaCatlovesme]

It would be a good thing, I think, to subject every high school student to a re-created Milgram experiment--get it ingrained in the collective conscious. Obviously, word would get out in advance and every student would "pass," but that's not the point--the point is awareness.

[55ella2007k]

@DynaCatlovesme Actually, I don't think that prior awareness would be a good idea. The reactions of those who took part, the 'awareness', as you put it, came AFTER, not during. I could tell you some very serious examples from my own family - anecdotal stuff, of course.

[DynaCatlovesme]

@55ella2007k I agree, but it wouldn't be doable since the thing couldn't be kept a secret from the next group of kids.

[55ella2007k]

@DynaCatlovesme  not necessarily, since their attention span is already restricted to the last week or so. Give it ten years or so... and nobody will even remember that it even took place. People are already saying that the landing on the moon never took place either... :)

[valhala56]

@55ella2007k I'm with the person who said the Milgram experiment should be done in High school and college. Sure kids mostly won't take it seriosly at the time, will look at as a game however culturely it would introduce everybody to the concepts that the experiment showed following the Nazi & other totalatarian regimes. As it is most people only have vague ideas what this experiment demonstrated.

By the way that was the heyday of great Social Psycholgy Experiments that have long past.

[Frequencitee]

Tolerance of intolerance is suicide by apathy, especially when viewed through the historic lens of, "going along to get along" or saying "Hell no" and doing the less popular but right thing.

Good synopsis!

[Frequencitee]

I stopped your video and watched a "Milgram experiment" video, of an updated version from the original. I placed it as the feature video on my page for anyone wishing to watch it. A little over 10 minutes long.

Now we can better understand the psychology behind the "Unmanned Drones". I cannot personally give energy to a system that has ingrained this belief in "authority or perceived authority" through indoctrination

You are Dutch or German. =/ I'm trying to make out the intonations.

[Birchbark5]

thanks Ella... too many are consenting to and justifying the violence... camp followers and such... it just perpetuates and hides it in plain sight... it's like the disfunctional and enabling homelife, we don't talk about it, it is a sick deluded front of denial and pretense. Too many folks seem almost like drones.

[dathan889]

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is so small. It is all about leadership leading a demoralized people. The American masses have become so demoralized. The Americans have become so saturated by fear that information is meaningless

[Licmycat]

Shouldn't we have Homeland Security investigating those repubs?

[airforcemax]

I, Max Rafael Waller, study all religions to understand why some refuse to tolerate and coexist with others, but without hesitation will vilify without giving proof or information to research for credibility and merit. YouTube and FaceBook along with people in public and private agencies that "defend" our freedoms censors and monitors everyone except people like GW Bush and BH Obama II, thus we have no privacy. Listen to the song by Hank Williams Jr "What You Don't Know (Won't Hurt You)"

[Licmycat]

Republicans are our enemies out to destroy our gov. Are they not? Our biggest enemies are in and snuck in thru Wall Street.

[LouieArrighi]

Obama is a Republican. I see libertarians following an ideology to the end until they fall off a cliff.

[airforcemax]

I, Max Rafael Waller, study all religions to understand why some refuse to tolerate and coexist with others, but without hesitation will vilify without giving proof or information to research for credibility and merit. Examples are the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. Some people continue to be bigots, discriminate, are racists who refuse to tolerate and coexist with people from all races and ethnic groups. Many refuse to accept different sexual orientation and preference.

[CognitiveDisonance]

Psy-op is and has been a mainstay for over sixty years now; military, government, and business. I believe Newton said 'men will sometimes stumble over the truth. Sadly most will get up and carry on as though nothing had ever happened.’

The elite are not going to dumb themselves down so we had best educate ourselves, and stop looking to Obama (or anyone) to lead us. It has been said that what lies before us and what lies behind, is not nearly as important as what lies right to our face.

[CognitiveDisonance]

Have you read Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars?

[taxmaxtony]

Authority= Author of reality.. Costume Authority, People put on costumes, and percieve they have authority.