To understand how humans work in society we have to see the human first as an individual and then how it integrates itself into society. It is very interesting to see how human behavior works, how unconsciousness and consciousness plays role in everyday decisions. Upon seeing the movie, The Experimenter, and reading the essay The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, we can see how easy it is to manipulate these factors, unconsciousness and consciousness, through order and the media.
The movie The Experimenter is based on an experiment conducted in 1963 by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. The goal of his experiment was to see how people reacted under orders of an authorative figure. Two people were given a role one of the …show more content…
We see humans seen as mere subjects, statistics and even numbers, instead of intellectual individuals. There will always exist those who do not conform and are set apart from the social norms, but those people are considered outcast and weird. What is normal is considered weird and the strangest part of all of this is that abnormality is what makes up complete human beings, who use their intellect, creativity, and genuineness to produce change in society. The subjects in the experiment, even though the conditions of the experiments changed, the majority complied. Also, in the culture industry even though products “change” they are meaningless and are still being bought. These realizations of how we conduct ourselves in society demonstrates how we have become weak and unimaginative. It is like we are part of this huge plan made by those who are really in power to control our thoughts, actions, and even our reactions by dulling our senses through media and obedience. We have let deception cloud our thoughts and let the “leaders” of society dictate how we should live instead of giving its members the power of reaching their full
The movie The Experimenter is based on an experiment conducted in 1963 by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University. The goal of his experiment was to see how people reacted under orders of an authorative figure. Two people were given a role one of the …show more content…
We see humans seen as mere subjects, statistics and even numbers, instead of intellectual individuals. There will always exist those who do not conform and are set apart from the social norms, but those people are considered outcast and weird. What is normal is considered weird and the strangest part of all of this is that abnormality is what makes up complete human beings, who use their intellect, creativity, and genuineness to produce change in society. The subjects in the experiment, even though the conditions of the experiments changed, the majority complied. Also, in the culture industry even though products “change” they are meaningless and are still being bought. These realizations of how we conduct ourselves in society demonstrates how we have become weak and unimaginative. It is like we are part of this huge plan made by those who are really in power to control our thoughts, actions, and even our reactions by dulling our senses through media and obedience. We have let deception cloud our thoughts and let the “leaders” of society dictate how we should live instead of giving its members the power of reaching their full