Conscience vs Obedience, Responsibility vs Authority: a Measure of the Humanoid Potential Trouble Source Horrors, 6

And, by the way, it’s worth to look at those bombs in terms of one specific facet brought to light by these Milgram experiments: why are media so important a weapon in this war against us? Proximity: media make up an artificial but nonetheless effective and thus precious closeness to us of the staged authority. Whenever you see television screens usurping communication within households, whenever you see people falling asleep exhausted in front of them, dispraised but still switched on, in addition to everything you already considered, keep in mind how percentages are influenced by the “perceived closeness” of the ordering “authority”, too, and how these minds will wake up moulded in someone’s intended direction.

At the expense of what does this artificial closeness of the media advance? Of real−world closeness: that with yor loved ones, your friends, your neighbours, your fellows, with the real society and the real world. With the consequence of developing a viewpoint from which the media are more and more present and important, while reality is less and less so. Guess how much this would ease things, should one find oneself in a Milgram experiment situation, but this time suppressing one’s fellows for real. And when you extend this to the modern−day world of so−called “social media”, you may get an inlking of why people are trapped in their mobile “communication” devices, thinking they’re “communicating”, while to the contrary they’re being averted from confronting their real fellows and the real world in person.

And you may want to add a further addendum to the sum producing the perceived legitimacy of authority: education and its barbarisation. First, education can be designed to educate one to understand responsibility, question “authority” and hold self as responsible and as the first legitimate authority, or designed to attain the opposite. But education doesn't even have to be betrayed that openly: it is enough to barbarise it, disperse it, hollow it out. If basic education does not take place, whichever way this betrayal is concealed, the chain of consequences is obvious: less consciously self−disciplined people produce more and more chaos that sooner or later jeopardizes viability, which eventually produces a demand for “naturally” superimposed order on those “naturally” incapable of self−discipline.