next Wednesday, France 2 broadcast a documentary The Game of Death , which should, hopefully, provoke a wave of shock among viewers usually brainwashed.
This documentary examines the fascination exerted on us games and other entertainment reality shows that seem to know no bounds in their race to the most trivial one-upmanship. Britain's Channel 4 did research does not at this time of terminally ill patients who agreed to be mummified before the cameras? How far reality TV can push it Vice populist sole purpose of raising the stakes scores of hearing? What authority has the TV does it affect us?
The Game of Death is a game sham since its principle is based on the famous experiment had done the research psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 60s. 80 candidates were invited to participate. The shooting of the game took place in April 2009. Participants are subject to the authority of a false television crew, Tania Young presenter of the game is actually an actress and producer of the show, Christophe Nick, a filmmaker directing a documentary actually.
The storyline of this game "dummy" is very simple: applicants must memorize in one minute, a guinea pig tied to a chair electrified, a list of 26 word associations. Each error guinea pig, the participant sends him as punishment electric shock graduated from 20 to 460 volts.
If you are familiar with this game, it's either because you've read the book Submission to authority has written Stanley Milgram following his experience in the USA, or because you 've seen the movie I like Icarus Henry Verneuil which describes adapting the Milgram experiment.
The question concerned the nature Milgram monstrous acts of any authority that is able to commit to an average person. Indeed, what has been pushing young SS soldiers to accept the camps to deliver thousands of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals by sending gas to the showers? How the pilot who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, he was led to obey an order that his superiors had given him?
The storyline of this game "dummy" is very simple: applicants must memorize in one minute, a guinea pig tied to a chair electrified, a list of 26 word associations. Each error guinea pig, the participant sends him as punishment electric shock graduated from 20 to 460 volts.
If you are familiar with this game, it's either because you've read the book Submission to authority has written Stanley Milgram following his experience in the USA, or because you 've seen the movie I like Icarus Henry Verneuil which describes adapting the Milgram experiment.
The question concerned the nature Milgram monstrous acts of any authority that is able to commit to an average person. Indeed, what has been pushing young SS soldiers to accept the camps to deliver thousands of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals by sending gas to the showers? How the pilot who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, he was led to obey an order that his superiors had given him?
Here is an excerpt from the film I like Icarus Henry Verneuil recounting adapting the Milgram experiment. (More ...)
The Milgram experiment has shown that absolute obedience to orders barbarians did not apply not exclusively military in wartime, but to any form of authority from the moment it is recognized by the subject, respected and not questioned. Science for example. The men who sent a shock of 460 volts to the person they were questioning on the grounds that his answers were false had no intention maliciously toward the latter. But the presence of a scientist at their side, the guarantor of a bond they do not challenge, was sufficient that they feel relieved of all responsibility vis-à-vis their murderous acts. The documentary
Christophe Nick, Wednesday night at 20:35, trying to see what becomes of this blind obedience when it will implement the scientific field to that of a game show, the science itself being replaced by a host of game .
Do the candidates have agreed to impose the man attached to his chair electric shocks increasingly burdensome to the ultimate, 460 volts being fatal? There was a disciplined public applauding at the right time? Music it engendered suspense worthy of Hitchcock?
no illusions about the outcome of this new television experience, I believe that the ensuing debate, moderated by Christopher Hondelatte true, would shake a lot of torpor and to admit to viewers that the SS for the most part were not monsters.
A little later, ARTE is planning to devote a segment on the candidates participating in the Game of Death to the question of their experience. How to defend those who went to the end of game, that is to say who literally ran the man subjected to questions? This could be an exciting or terrifying issue that inevitably will learn a lot about bad faith.
Let's meet here to discuss them in our turn. Will you have found the experience completely legitimate or unconscious?
Christophe Nick, Wednesday night at 20:35, trying to see what becomes of this blind obedience when it will implement the scientific field to that of a game show, the science itself being replaced by a host of game .
Do the candidates have agreed to impose the man attached to his chair electric shocks increasingly burdensome to the ultimate, 460 volts being fatal? There was a disciplined public applauding at the right time? Music it engendered suspense worthy of Hitchcock?
no illusions about the outcome of this new television experience, I believe that the ensuing debate, moderated by Christopher Hondelatte true, would shake a lot of torpor and to admit to viewers that the SS for the most part were not monsters.
A little later, ARTE is planning to devote a segment on the candidates participating in the Game of Death to the question of their experience. How to defend those who went to the end of game, that is to say who literally ran the man subjected to questions? This could be an exciting or terrifying issue that inevitably will learn a lot about bad faith.
Let's meet here to discuss them in our turn. Will you have found the experience completely legitimate or unconscious?
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