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Necrodegenerate Phallus​-​Envenomation

from Whence Cometh Evil? by Christgrinder

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This track muses on the 1961 experiments of Stanley Milgram, in which test subjects were told by an authority figure to apply a supposedly harmless electric shock to another subject (in fact played by an actor) who the subject could not see, every time they gave an incorrect answer to a question asked by the authority figure, to be increased in 15 volt increments.

The subjects believed that for each wrong answer, the actor was receiving actual shocks. In reality, there were no shocks, and a pre-recorded tape was played indicating the distress of the recipient of the shocks. After the voltage was increased to 450 volts the recording fell silent.

Milgram found that 65 percent of experiment participants administered the experiment's final 450-volt shock, and all administered shocks of at least 300 volts. Subjects were uncomfortable doing so, and displayed varying degrees of tension and stress, and all subjects questioned the experiment, yet all delivered fatal voltages at the urging of an authority figure.

The results were unexpected, and gave an unpleasant glimpse into human nature. The experiment has been repeated many times with consistent results, and it seems that although we like to think that we are more likely to do the right thing, any one of us has it in us to be the concentration camp guard, or the anonymous member of the lynch mob.

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from Whence Cometh Evil?, released April 11, 2015

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