Yesterday a French “reality” TV game show imitated the experiment by Stanley Milgram in which people off the street, ie you and me, electrocute another innocent person because they are told to by someone else.
In the TV show 64 out of 80 contestants continued electrocuting (and smiling as they did so) until the man in the chair “died”. Only 16 decided to stop because of the creaming and obvious pain that they were inflicting.
We’re very primitive despite our space age technology and luxury lifestyles. No wonder we sit by as our consumption eats the planet and the food off the plate of the poor.
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