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Instructions: There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired.

Performance: I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility.

Duration: 6 hours (8pm–2am.) Studio Morra, Naples

  • MaryReadsBooks@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well, thats wrong. All is tells us is, that the people in the Experiment did fucked up things. These people were raised in a fucked society, they may have experienced violence, thay may be traumatised, they may idolize the traditional male rolemodel vor they may not. What far too often gets overlooked is that you can’t put people in experiments and look at them as if they where in there in a vaccum, untouched by society. Put Nazis in there you have one result. Put Queer feminist leftist in there you have another result. Put indigenous societies in the experiment, you have a different result.

    People aren’t generally fucked up. Society is fucked up and that shows through the action of its people. “People are fucked up” is a very fashist thought, it means we must have a strong state that puts its siticens in the “right” place. And that is just wrong.

    (More on why people aren’t fucked up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVe4Fju0P0)

    • Thepolack@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well yes and no. You can say that it's just the people in any experiment but past a certain point you have to be able to extrapolate the results to the population at large. And (again, if memory serves) the results of this experiment have been replicated numerous times across numerous population samples.

      Also, the point of Milgram isn't that people are fucked up, it's that people will follow orders when those orders are issued by someone in a perceived position of authority. And it's funny you mention Nazis because the experiment was Milgram's response to the "I was just following orders" defence from the Nuremberg trials.

      In conclusion: non-fucked-up people will do fucked up things if their boss tells them to.