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VY-MU: "If: Leader Lead By BLIND BIND then: "WHAT CAN YOU SAY?"

"Suppose that, having surveyed the present highly dangerous scene of INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, a social scientist makes the not unreasonable hypothesis that one of the main reason for the ELECTION OF DISASTROUS LEADERS is that people tend to be swayed by the QUANITY rather than the QUALITY of their VERBAL UTTERANCES."
ENTER EXPERIMENT.

INGREDIENTS FOR EXPERIMENT:

FOUR VOLUNTEERS

ABILITY: DISCUSS!

ON: IMPORTANT TOPICAL ISSUE.

FURNITURE: ROUND TABLE.

PROPS: RED AND GREEN LIGHT BULBS.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS:

DRAMATIC EFFECTS!

STAGE IS SET.

For tom-tom tamasha to start.

The four sitting around the round-table have one red and one green light each which are shielded from all others' lights. He can only see his.

"Your contribution to the discussion will be MONITORED. When you are doing well this: signal: green light. When red light flashes: not doing good. IN this way we hope to improve your performance as DISCUSSANTS."

Off goes the lighter of lights. And having left the room chooses at RANDOM which of the four will be 'MADE' group leader, in a most arbitrary manner proceeds to punch in the light switches without HEARING A WORD OF WHAT WAS BEING SAID BY ANY OF THEM, only ensuring that the 'CHOSEN LEADER' is given more greens lights than reds.

results:

verbal output and confindence:

of leader up and up

OF OTHERS DOWN AND DOWN

more down as that of leader goes up and up

VISIBILY AND VOLUBLY THE LEADER IS ON SONG! GOING ON AND ON.. .

By the end of the experiment the 'chosen' has infact become 'leader'.

A.H. HASTRORFF, 'THE REINFORCEMENT' of Individual Actions in a Group Situation.'

Ref and quotes: Norman F. Dixon: Our Own Worst Enemies.

So while this experiment did not invite the opprobium that Milgram's did its 'effects were atleast mildly stressing for the followers-- they were made to feel inferior. AND FOR THE CATCH IN THE SCREWDRIVER KAHANI CATCH IT AGAIN WITH MILGRAM'S!

"Finally, in a world which chooses its Presidents and Prime Ministers on the basis of SHALLOW, IRRELEVANT, AND OFTEN INANE CRITERIA, THE RESULTS ARE INDEED IMPORTANT . . .

ALARMING?

WATCH THE ISHCREW LOOSE CONECTIONS and pick the politicIans with greater care, NOW taht you know how even 'volunteers' can be made to 'veer' off, offcourse, and listen less to their exhortation especially when they over-ride our own BUTTONS OF COMPASSION AND

CONSCIENCE AND

KEEP COURAGE ALWAYS BY YOUR SIDE!