COVID was a live-action replay of the Milgram experiment.
No walls. No laboratory. No electrodes.
Just a television, a daily briefing, and an authority figure in a suit telling people what to do.
And the results were exactly the same.
For those unfamiliar, Stanley Milgram’s landmark experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people, when placed under institutional authority and given clear instructions, would administer what they believed to be severe electric shocks to innocent strangers simply because someone in a position of authority told them to continue.
The conclusion was uncomfortable and definitive.
Obedience to authority, in the presence of sufficient social pressure, overrides individual conscience in the vast majority of people.
COVID proved it again. At global scale. In real time.
But the truly devastating part the part that I find most difficult to reconcile , was the medical profession.
Doctors. Physicians. People who spent years “studying” human biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medical ethics. People who took an oath. People who knew or had every professional obligation to know that mandating an experimental intervention, suppressing early treatment, isolating the dying from their families, and dismissing adverse events without investigation was a profound violation of everything their training stood for.
And so many of them did it anyway.
Not reluctantly. Enthusiastically.
Do as you’re told was not a private capitulation for most of them. It was performed publicly, proudly, wrapped in the language of science and responsibility and care by people who had abandoned all three the moment the institutional authority spoke.
Follow the science became the most cynical slogan of the era. Deployed not by people following evidence but by people following orders and using the language of reason to avoid the discomfort of exercising it.
Milgram’s most haunting finding was not that monsters do terrible things.
It was that ordinary people do when the structure around them makes it easy enough.
We just watched it happen again.
And the lesson, as always, is the same.
An obedient population is only as safe as the integrity of whoever is giving the orders.
Think for yourself.
Question everything.
And never under any pressure, from any authority switch off your conscience because someone told you to.
Nothing to do with our kids working in the EU, everything about letting in millions more of the illegals that are currently occupying European countries with us sending more of our own citizens’ $ over to the EU- and likely our kids to fight in their wars.BAD policy by a dictator
MUST WATCH: PM Mark Carney pitches lax Canada-EU borders, calling for young people to “work, study and live where they want” on either side of the Atlantic.
He claims an “overwhelming majority” of Canadians want closer ties with Europe.
@RobertL63444839@junonewscom Nothing to do with our kids working in the EU, everything about letting in millions more of the illegals that are currently occupying European countries with us sending more of our own citizens’ $ over to the EU- and likely our kids to fight in their wars.BAD policy by a dictator
@TheChiefNerd Wow Bill Gates looks like he’s hopped on the Ozempic train. Wonder if he will suffer the side effects like having his stomach permanently paralyzed?
@JasminLaine Too many blue and purple haired old chicks are going to be lapping this up like a Labrador retriever at the charcuterie board on the coffee table.
@rsk82410@jotbert@yegwave And it’s wrong there too. All immigrants should learn the language and at least if the sign is going to be in something other than FR or EN then it has to include one or both of those.
@loadedlen@Great_Cdn_Moose And Carney did the exact same thing with the Liberal candidate who advised kidnapping a political opponent and turning him over to the Chinese consulate. These people Liberal party seems to be cut from the same cloth. #HowDoWeTolerateThem
This is why we need to examine everything g that happened during the Covid years and NOT sweep it all under the rug. Govt officials and public health policies killed people and destroyed families. We should NOT be sealing files for 15 years!
35-year-old father of five, Garnet Harper, was denied a life-saving kidney transplant in Ontario — not because there weren’t donors, but because he hadn’t received the COVID vaccine.
His own brothers had volunteered to give him a kidney, yet no hospital would perform the surgery.
Garnet passed away in May, leaving behind his wife of 12 years and their five young children. While he was still fighting for his life, hospital staff asked his wife if they could harvest his organs once he was gone.
He was considered unworthy of receiving a transplant while alive… but valuable enough to take organs from once he died.
This isn’t just a policy debate anymore. It’s a family that will never be whole again.
Nothing screams we have the most transparent govt ever in Canadian history than sealing up all the files for 15 years. These people think you are stupid. Prove them wrong!
@MichaelHaip@MarkJCarney Complete insanity! At the pool today I heard a bunch of boomer women go on about how “smart “ and educated Mark Carney has and how people in England “loved” him when he was the head of the Bank of England. Canada is doomed by stupid people who cannot see beneath the MSM gloss.
People are finally waking up to the lies the globalist corpratists like @MarkJCarney and Trudeau have been pushing through propagandized legacy media like @CBC, @CTV, and others that survive only on account of government funding. It was and is a hoax.
@wealthmoose@MichaelHaip I’m really hoping that these two do no show up for the Canada match in Houston. We don’t need their fake Elbows Up negative energy at the game.
Most Canadians are focused on Bill C-34. Before that it was Bill C-22. Before that it was Bill C-9.
And that is exactly the problem.
Professor of Law at Queen's University @PardyBruce just explained why fighting each bill one by one will never fix Canada. The bills are not the problem. They are the distraction. The real problem is the system that keeps producing them — a governing structure that allows elected politicians to hand unlimited power to unelected bureaucrats who answer to no one and serve indefinitely.
Until Canadians understand that, nothing changes.
Watch the full conversation here 👇
@BasilTheGreat When leftish women supported the return of the Ayatullah to Iran in 1979, they cheered his return as a victory against the 'right wing' Shah.
Within 2 years, they were all imprisoned, or dead.
Useful idiots.