oh wow, i wanna see this "heist" very interesting.

This one needs more votes. Our willingness to put authority ahead of our own knowledge of right and wrong has a lot to do with the last few years and how we got where we are now. If we never think about and recognize it we'll never stop.

Wow, only ONE of those people had heard of the experiment before?

We do what we're told.

We do what we're told.

We do what we're told.

We do what we're told.

We do what we're told.

We do what we're told.

We do what we're told.

We do what we're told.

There was a dramatization of the Milgram experiment on US tv in 1975 called "The Tenth Level" starring William Shatner.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075320/

Very disturbing, most people will do whatever they are told by an authority figure - doctor, lawyer, cop, politician, military officer - even though they know it's immoral / illegal / murderous / genocidal.

Also interesting is "The Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted by Dr. Phillip Zimbardo in 1971.

Also check out "The Third Wave", which started out as an innocent experiment to show students why the Germans turned a blind eye to the Nazis or become Nazis themselves, and which ended as a rather frightening and humbling experience for everyone. By the end of the experiment the teacher had over 200 students, most of which were not actually in his class at all, snitching on classmates who didn't follow "The Third Wave" and doing a special "salute".

He then gathered them altogether in a conference room, played some videos of Hitler and other Nazi stuff, then told them that like the Germans during WW2, these students wouldn't be admitting to anyone that they came this far either.

We are just animals anyways.

German movie "Das Experiment" is always highly recommended, although that's more about the Stanford prison experiment. Oh, and probably long? With a *?

You do know that a lot of stuff on Brown's program is staged, right?

You do know that a lot of stuff on Brown's program is staged, right?

Utter rubbish. Back it up with proof or retract it.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_brown

BrknPhoenix, great film. I wish I could find a copy around here. I think there's one floating around the library system.

Seconded, HaricotVert. Scary stuff, but I'm amazed they even found people who weren't aware of the Milgram experiment.

"I mix magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship"

I've read alot into Mr. Brown and basically he IS dishonest about what he's actually doing in the sense that his presentations are clever (i.e. believable) misdirections. For example, he often implies that he's achieving the effect with some sort of persuasion and suggestion technique while in fact he is using much more mechanical and well-studied performance magic (especially mentalism) techniques. I know how he does about 80% of his stuff cuz I've bothered to read up about it and read all the books he's read but another 20% still baffles me. Overall I think he's brilliant at what he does.

We are just animals anyways.

That's a cop-out, the kind of thing certain people say to try to excuse wronging others.

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