Some years ago they did a test in Manhattan I think it was. They set up hidden cameras at a busy cross walk.
They had an actor who deliberately jail walked to see how many people who would follow him crossing the street against the red light.
When the actor was dressed in a business suit and with well kept hair and beard a lot of people broke the law followed across the street.
But when the same actor was looking like a home less person no one followed.
So what does this experiment say really?
Do people follow a leader blindly?
Is a business man more reliable only because his attire?
Is a homeless persons brain drugged up and not reliable?
What person is more stressed and thus likely to jail walk?
Why didn't anybody else cross the street first?
I would like to make a comparison with the animal kingdom.
Picture your self a raging river on the African Savannah full of hungry Crocodiles and a heard of Wilde beast about to cross the river.
For generations the Wilde beast has followed a healthy matriarch across the same spot for hundreds of years. Every year many Wilde beasts ends up as Crocodile food at that spot.
This year local humans has built a bridge across the river close by. A young Wilde beast finds the bridge and starts to cross the river. But only very few follow it across safely.
Why, because all species are creatures of habit and it will take generations to change this behavior.
Humans are no different. We look at TV and some official person says we need to do something and the majority follows without thinking.
For me it's scary! I know what humans are capable of when they act like mindless zombies. History is full of examples.
What can we do to make the human race more advanced and critical in it's mind set towards authority?
Education, yes maybe, but the children has teachers and those teachers were also taught, thus situation don't change. If all decisions were made in solitude after lengthy contemplation's with "all" facts available, many mistakes could be avoided. But is there time for that in the modern world? I don't think so. No time to be a modern Simeon Stylites on a pillar.Then I guess the future will be the same as history has been. Poor our future generations!
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