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I admire the level to which he’s mastered his craft, on stage or in one of his specials. I’m also quite frustrated with people who watch him and believe he’s s

I admire the level to which he’s mastered his craft, on stage or in one of his specials. I’m also quite frustrated with people who watch him and believe he’s shown us something about ourselves, especially those who believe he demonstrated that 75% of people would commit murder if in a real situation like the elaborate sequence in The Push. But it’s difficult to explain the difference between participating in a hypnotic/suggestive guided scenario (unwittingly or not) and real life with its hard edges and unsuspended moral convictions.

SmirkingRevenge 7y ago
> those who believe he demonstrated that 75% of people would commit murder if in a real situation like the elaborate sequence in The Push. There's also the fact that there was a screening process. They didn't pick people at random, they filtered for people with high suggestibility. It was pretty amusing to watch that conformity test where they put an applicant in a room with actors pretending to be applicants, where actors would all stand up/sit down at regular intervals, with no explanation.
- 1123581321 7y ago
  Yes, that one was, and I think I would probably have conformed too! I participated in an exercise once designed, through rhyme, to get an entire room to say the wrong answer to a basic math problem. I knew I was saying the wrong thing as it was happening, but I couldn’t stop myself. It’s just that there is a difference between that and finding oneself taking a bullet, committing murder, etc.