Obedience to Authority
For some reason lately I’ve been fascinated with psychological studies. I’ve been specifically tripping out on a certain study conducted by Stanely Milgram at Yale University in 1963. The study looked focused on obedience to authority. This has always been a fascination of mine, probably cause I have issues with authority. But after being within the corporate world for a few years now, the study is coming back to me with totally different implications.
Why do we obey authority? Probably to keep order and structure in our otherwise chaotic life’s. Thinking that authority exists for our best interest is probably true, but also very sad. How far do we obey? The Milgram experiment demonstrated that people will obey authority to an astonishing level, even causing harm to somebody else. terrible. Crushing human will and creativity, or even containing it into authoritative blocks is a bad thing (my opinion).