The Movie Compliance

[Hatha Sunahara]

I'm not generally very accomodating to authority. They would have to do me some grave bodily harm before I migh consider doing what they want of me. As for authority over the telephone, that is a complete joke. I've generalized a rule about granting requests over the phone. If the request comes from someone whom I don't know (a complete stranger) any request is countered by a refusal, regardless what the stranger says is the payoff. As for requests from people I do know personally, it all depends on my relationship with them. If people want my cooperation, they have to establish a personal relationship with me. And in all cases, if they want me to do harm to a third person, I will refuse. I am not a conduit for other people's authority. They will find out if they try to channel it through me it will get short circuited. The general principle I am dealing with here is Do no harm.


Hatha

[Jewboo]

I think this movie beautifully summarizes and portrays the core problem in American culture: unquestioning obedience to authority.

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Jew Hollywood IS our culture and it ain't about obeying social authority.

[iOWNme]

If you read Milgrams book he wrote after these experiments he really gets into how deep this belief goes, its astonishing. The experiment only stopped because i think his girlfriend came by to check it out. She apparently flipped out when she saw what was going on, and made him put an end to it.

99% of people live every single day using voluntary transactions to get what they need. Most people arent kidnapping a guys daughter and asking for a job in order to return her. Most people arent using violence as their first option to get a hamburger at Wendy's. Almost everyone totally understands this and uses the NAP in their everyday lives.

But when it comes to this one single belief system, one superstition, one mythology, people totally throw away their own free will and conscience, and blindly obey their perceived 'Authority' figure. Its amazing to study its effects.

And this is the key because without this one cult belief, almost all of the worlds greatest atrocities, the greatest plunder, death and enslavement would have been avoided, disobeyed and resisted.


JewBookJew tries to point to the thug culture and general degradation as the source of the problems, then tries to throw the word 'social' before 'authority' ..lol Is there some 'social' Police i dont know about? Can they lock me in a cage for not being 'social' enough? LOL

What you point to is the symptom to the problem. But you already know that, your here to drift real debate into the waters of nothingness. All of the stuff you pointed to was a result of 'Government' in many different forms from the entire money system to media/entertainment controlled MONOPOLIES. Without those key controls, there is no central power to control.

You keep cutting at those branches.....Just remember there will always be a small minority of people who are willing to hack away at the root. As painful as it may be for people like you.

[Jewboo]

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of Evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau

" Walden Pond was a pleasant walk to his family home, where he lived for almost his entire life. During his famous experiment in his cabin at Walden, moralizing about his solitude, he did not mention that he brought his mother his dirty laundry and went on enjoying her apple pies. His friend William Ellery Channing wrote that, after his graduation from Harvard at the age of twenty, when his mother broached the subject of his leaving home, Thoreau became weepy--and didn't leave." -http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7113.html