“Time’s up. Pencils down. The first phase of the Obedience-Prison-Conformity experiment is over. How’d you do?”
It is disappointing how few passed but not terribly surprising considering only a dozen out of 500 men chose not to participate in the Józefów massacre of Polish Jews when given the opportunity to excuse themselves, as documented in Christopher Browning’s “Ordinary Men” and explored in this piece:
“Covid and the Three Tests of Compliance” sounds like a perfect companion piece to this article I published last April:
• “Are You a Good German or a Badass German?” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/are-you-a-good-german-or-a-badass)
I opened with:
“Time’s up. Pencils down. The first phase of the Obedience-Prison-Conformity experiment is over. How’d you do?”
It is disappointing how few passed but not terribly surprising considering only a dozen out of 500 men chose not to participate in the Józefów massacre of Polish Jews when given the opportunity to excuse themselves, as documented in Christopher Browning’s “Ordinary Men” and explored in this piece:
• “Letter to a Colluder: Stop Enabling Tyranny” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling)