Unintentional Milgram Experiments

Are happening all over the place

With and without our permission

Unidentified lab assistants

Portraying alleged authority

Creating behavioral studies

Never to be fully reviewed




Vague results serving the

Intentional means of distraction

Along with the brooding seeds

For growing potential violence




All because unwitting participants

Do not know who they really are

Guided poorly by celebrity

Authority or an immoral majority





“Psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments at Yale University to investigate how far ordinary people would go in obeying an authority figure, even when obedience appeared to harm another person.

The setup: Participants were told to administer electric shocks to a person whenever that person answered a question incorrectly.

The deception: The shocks were not real, and the person receiving them was an actor. The participants did not know this.

The pressure: As the apparent shocks increased, the actor protested, complained of pain, and eventually stopped responding. An experimenter urged participants to continue.

The results: In the best-known version, 65% of participants continued to the highest setting of 450 volts, despite the apparent distress of the other person.

The main conclusion

Milgram argued that ordinary people may obey authority even when doing so conflicts with their personal conscience. Situational pressure and the perceived legitimacy of authority can strongly influence behavior.

The deeper psychological question: Are people inherently cruel, or can an authority structure persuade otherwise ordinary people to do things they would normally consider wrong?

The experiment remains influential, although its ethics, interpretation, and generalizability have been debated.”

– AI





Otherwise, intelligent individuals

Succumb to gross group think

Because they want to be liked

When they can not even like themselves




Changing behavior for perceived acceptance

Altering beliefs to combat cognitive dissonance

Or gathering together simply

For a rotation of temporary enemies

Religious, political, and sports affiliations

Are the easiest go-to culprits





Division for the sake of division

When all could be seen for their similarities

Seeing as how we are all one consciousness

No one pictures themselves as,

The would be recipient of their own cruelty

Because it is “outside” themselves.



Ooopsie





Or imagine themselves in the shoes

Of the people, they objectify their self hatred upon

If only the veil of separation could be lifted

To expose the mirror reflecting who one is

With or without any Milgram experiments






“What do I know

I am just a person

Who drives a truck,”


– Angelo Devlin