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Stanley Milgram: There was a time, I suspect, when men and women could give a fully human response to any situation, when we could be fully absorbed, in the world, as human beings, but more often now people don't get to see the whole situation but only some small part of it. There's a division of labour and people carry out small, narrow, specialised jobs and we can't act without some sort of direction from on high. I call this the agentic state. The individual yields to authority and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions. The agentic state is 'store policy', it's 'I'm just doing my job', or 'that's not my job', or 'I don't make the rules', 'we don't do that here'. 'just following orders', 'it's the law'. In the agentic state the individual defines himself as an instrument carrying out the wishes of others - a soldier, a nurse, an administrator, an actor, a corporate employee, or even, yes, academics and artists.


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There was a time I suspect when men and women
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could give a fully human response to any situation
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When we could be fully absorbed in the world as human beings
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But more often now
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people don't get to see the whole situation
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but only some small part of it
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There's a division of labor and people carry out small
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narrow specialized jobs
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and we can't act without some kind of direction from on high
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I call this the agentic state
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The individual yields to authority
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and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions
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Steven Mr Dahlquist you agreed to the rules
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The agentic state is store policy
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It's I'm just doing my job
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Or That's not my job
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Or I don't make the rules We don't do that here
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Just following orders It's the law
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In the agentic state the individual defines himself
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as an instrument carrying out the wishes of others
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A soldier a nurse an administrator
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An actor

Clip duration: 69 seconds
Views: 150
Timestamp in movie: 01h 24m 36s
Uploaded: 07 December, 2022
Genres: drama, history
Summary: Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.


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