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Nov. 7, 2020 - Davis Aurini
08:48
We Don't Need No More Heroes

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The Stanford prison experiment by Dr. Zimbardo has gone down in the annals of psychology as a gross violation of medical ethics, which exposes the evil inside the human soul.
But it's his latest project, the Heroic Imagination Project, which is truly terrible for humanity.
Because I'll tell you, we don't need no more heroes.
The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Nobody seems to understand what this thing was.
Because, with all due respect to Dr. Zimbardo, the experimental method was way off.
The idea was to see how people behave in a militarized prison type of experience.
And one week into it, his wife saw what was happening and said, you need to stop this experiment right now.
You are brutalizing people.
Because it turned into the most abusive, egregious, cartoonish prison experience you can imagine.
And quite frankly, this is no surprise.
You see, when they put the ad out to get people into this experiment, they advertised it as a study of prison psychology.
So immediately you are going to be selecting for a certain type of individual.
Second, Dr. Zimbardo put himself as the chief of this prison.
So he was studying it, but also involved in it.
And finally, you must come to the conclusion that this was not a study in the behavior of prison guards and prisoners any more than a Dungeon and Dragons game is a study in medieval culture.
It was a study in how college students think prisons behave.
Now these go along with the Milgram obedience experiments.
If a man in a lab coat tells you to push a button while somebody on the other side of the screen is screaming in pain, will you push the button?
Well, turns out the only people that won't push the button are those that are very high in testosterone and high in disagreeableness.
So almost entirely men.
Women will cry and beg not to push the button, but it's mostly men, with a few exceptional women, that won't push the button.
Very, very few people are willing to stand up to authority.
And so modern psychology looks back at the Nazis, the mythology of the red skull, and say, how do we stop this from happening again?
And they've come to exactly the wrong conclusion.
You see, the conclusion they've come to is that we need more whistleblowers.
We need to empower the people.
And to a certain extent, they're not wrong on this.
One of the great advancements in industrial security, in the safety of the job site, is those dumb capitalists finally getting it through their head that a guy getting injured on the job is way more expensive than a six-hour delay because somebody saw something that was unsafe.
And so on construction sites, anybody can call out a dangerous situation.
And even if you get 99 false positives, that one true positive that you would have missed saves you millions of dollars.
So in a certain sense, it's true.
We need whistleblowers.
Having whistleblower protection is good.
All of that.
Having structures in place that recognize that authority does need to be questioned.
And if it's a valid questioning of authority, that person should not be persecuted.
That is good.
But the problem with things like the heroic imagination project.
The problem with the idea that anybody can be a leader.
The problem with this is it waters down what heroism and leadership actually are.
And if you go look at the sort of kids hanging out at the Starbucks, when you tell everybody that they're a special little snowflake and they shouldn't follow orders and they should think for themselves, they wind up thinking exactly how the corporations tell them to think.
Instead of following the heroes, they follow the shysters.
Let's go back to these obedience experiments for a second.
That the only people that will truly rebel in the obedience experiment tend to be men with the occasional woman.
And if you're concluding from this that women just lack any sense of morality, you're clearly not understanding what's going on here.
You're not understanding the differences between the sexes, that there isn't some ideal form of human.
There's a spectrum.
And we only need heroes once in a blue moon.
The problem is not that women, or most men, refuse to call out the corruption.
That is not the problem.
That is normal humanity.
It's good that we only have a small number of people that do this.
Otherwise nothing would get done.
The problem is when you take people that aren't temperamentally suited for heroism And you let the marketing shister manipulator scumbags shove a funnel full of sunshine up their ass and tell them that they're a hero.
Because now you got a whole society of special snowflakes complaining and whining and ratting one another out, and everything falls apart.
No, we don't need more heroes.
We've got more than enough already.
We're full up on crazy in this society.
What we need is more people who know how to do their damn job.
Carpe futurum, tene tratitum.
Greeni Out.
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