Independent Thought https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan31_Post.mp4 One of the more interesting psychological experiments is the famous Milgram experiment. It showed, more or less, that 2/3’s of people will mindlessly obey an authority figure. Even if it means “shocking” another innocent person. In the test, the guy getting shocked was only pretending. Now the label […]
Your Programmable Memory
What’s Really In Your Brain? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr03_Post.mp4 Back in the seventies, a troubling trend started to happen. Some psychologists got the big idea that dysfunctional adults had emotional issues because of repressed childhood memories. Which set up a very disturbing situation. Not unlike how people can easily be coerced into giving false confessions […]
The Nurse Killer Authority Pattern
Authority Goes A Long Way https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar06_Post.mp4 They did an experiment in a hospital once. Part of a larger group of experiments. A researcher would call a nurse. The researcher would identify themselves as a Dr., but one they’d never heard of before. “Hi, this Dr. Schmeckleberry…” And they would tell […]
Why Experts Recommend This Hack
Somebody’s Lying https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar01_Post.mp4 After WWII ended, they put a bunch of Nazi’s on trial. And the most burning question they had, was why did you do all those horrendous things? And they all gave some unexpected answers. “I was just following orders.” It’s one thing to read history books about guys […]
The Death of Hippocrates
Health Expo I went to this health expo a few weeks ago. It was kind of non-main stream expo, mostly supplements, lots of homeopathic based medicine. They had a lot of booths, mostly books and supplements. They also had a lot of talks, some by doctors, some by dieticians, but they were […]
Memory Confusion Experiment
Watch Closely Researchers did an interesting memory study. They had a guy pretending to be a thief come into a large classroom while a professor was lecturing and steal a bag off the desk in front. A common understanding is that winners of wars write the history books. We might assume that […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
Authority Paradox
The Guy In Charge Said So One of the go-to ways for most of us silly humans to figure out what’s what is to see what somebody in charge says. Study after study shows this. They put ten people in a room, and dump in an unexpected and complicated task. Time after time, people will […]
Myth Of Self
Who Are You? How would you answer that question? Most of us answer it by saying what we do, or what we have. By our jobs, by our accomplishments, by our families, by our connections. All of these are things outside of us. If I call myself a writer, it’s really a description of what […]