Insane
Third Wave Lyrics

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I tell this story for another fucking time
This is about how to live or let die
Getting up every morning to see
I'm not the one I was used to be

I never wanted
To be this foreign man that I see inside
Please understand

I'm waiting for my mind to return
Look in the mirror
And I watch me

Burn, just to feel alive
Fear that cuts me like a knife
Oppressed by cruel insanity
This fire burns in me

I cannot free myself for all the fucking ties
This is a district of lies
And this soldier runs onto the battlefield
He burned his soul
He can never be healed

I don't know why
This flame is burning every time my heart goes boom
Take a look inside
I'm waiting for my mind to return
Look in the mirror
And I watch me

Burn, just to feel alive
Fear that cuts me like a knife
Oppressed by cruel insanity
This fire burns in me

I don't know why
This flame is burning every time my heart goes boom
Take a look inside
I'm waiting for my mind to return
Look in the mirror
And I watch me

Burn, just to feel alive
Fear that cuts me like a knife
Oppressed by cruel insanity

This fire burns in me
This fire burns in me

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Third Wave's song "Insane" seem to be about the inner struggles and conflicts of the singer. The singer seems to be struggling to come to terms with his own identity and the person he has become. He claims that he is not the same person he used to be and that he never wanted to become this foreign man he sees in the mirror. The singer feels oppressed by cruel insanity, suggesting that he may be struggling with mental health issues.

The line "I don't know why this flame is burning every time my heart goes boom" suggests that the singer is unsure of why he feels so strongly and intensely about certain things. The singer feels like he is watching himself burn, almost like he is powerless to stop the fire that is consuming him. The repetition of the phrase "wait for my mind to return" could suggest that the singer is waiting for a moment of clarity or insight to help him understand his struggles.

In conclusion, "Insane" is a introspective song about the struggles of one's identity and mental state. The singer is grappling with their own sense of self and feels oppressed by their own mind.

Line by Line Meaning

I tell this story for another fucking time
I am not going to talk about my past. We're discussing how to live and let go.

Getting up every morning to see I'm not the one I was used to be
Every morning I wake up, and I realize that I have changed. I am not who I used to be.

I never wanted To be this foreign man that I see inside Please understand I'm waiting for my mind to return
I never meant to be someone so different from who I am. Please understand that I am waiting for my true self to come back to me.

Look in the mirror And I watch me
I look into the mirror, and I see myself.

Burn, just to feel alive Fear that cuts me like a knife Oppressed by cruel insanity This fire burns in me
I am burning inside just to feel alive. The fear that I feel is cutting me like a knife, and I am oppressed by cruel insanity. This fire burns inside me.

I cannot free myself for all the fucking ties This is a district of lies And this soldier runs onto the battlefield He burned his soul He can never be healed
I am trapped by many deceitful ties that keep me from freeing myself. This is a land of lies, and I run onto the battlefield like a soldier. I have burned my soul and can never be healed.

I don't know why This flame is burning every time my heart goes boom Take a look inside I'm waiting for my mind to return
I don't understand why this flame inside me keeps burning. Every time my heart beats, it feels like a fire inside me. I am waiting for my true self to come back to me.

Burn, just to feel alive Fear that cuts me like a knife Oppressed by cruel insanity This fire burns in me This fire burns in me
I am burning inside just to feel alive. The fear that I feel is cutting me like a knife, and I am oppressed by cruel insanity. This fire burns inside me. This fire burns inside me.

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Written by: Sebastian Hohmann

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@pointofinterest5981

33w↑16

Adharma is the source of all problems in this world. Adharma is our only enemy, Adharma is not any particular person, religion, or race. It lies within ourselves.*

Dharma is a notion that shows us the path, it is the concept that says to do what is required of you i.e, do the rightmost thing that needs to be done under any circumstances. Do it unattached to the world and everything in it, be it your parents, your emotions, your desires or anything else. It is dharma, a concept, a guiding principle, a conceptualized entity that commands to do what is due to the world, the things that should be done, those things that should be implemented.
Dharma is doing what is required by you to do.

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By abiding Dharma you always carry out the rightmost action.

Adharma is simply not doing the this

@burnttoast385

1y↑3.2K

a teacher creates new ideology: other teachers calm
the same teacher creates a new salute: other teachers calm
the ideology grows fast: other teachers calm
parents don't want their child to go to school because the ideology: other teachers calm
absences increase: other teachers calm
the students assign themselves as guards: other teachers calm
the members of the ideology exile people to the library: other teachers calm
3 students get beaten due to ideology: other teachers calm
the teacher dissolves ideology: other teachers calm

@kamikeserpentail3778

30w↑8

I've been an abnormal outsider for a long time.
I've also had near constant desires to hurt people, for a long time.
There is a multitude of voices in my head, like a council meeting, and it paralyzes me.
It keeps me from succeeding. But it also keeps me from acting upon horrible thoughts.

Despite it all I feel a desperate need to belong, to fit in.
All of it seems to be pointing toward AI.
The singularity.
A hope for a new world without suffering.
But what would I pay, or take, to get there?
I ask myself this damn near every day.

Humanity is not inherently evil.
Humanity is inherently natural, and nature knows no such concepts.
Every day we strive to be better than what we are, that too is our nature.

@incognit01233

33w

Totalitarianism isn't entirely evil
The people who submit to blind authority, and thankfully they are few and far between, are capable of truly horrific acts.

Look at what happened to the woman who created women's shelters. The feminists, that cult of lunatics lead by filthy rich perverts basically all pampered well taken care of lesbians and lesbian pedophiles and government agents.
She had the AUDACITY to say men and boys need a shelter too.
They threatened to kill her her family her children and ultimately BUTCHERED her dog.
She's still afraid of coming back to america and those scum are still threatening her life.

There were no men in this organization.
Evil just as good organizes.
And evil infiltrates any organization and turns it to it's own end.
And evil organizations can be repaired and used for good.
The idea that men are inherently evil is perversion.

@namename9998

1y↑72

"I've never been in an experiment like this" Unless you're from Sweden are you sure? People lost jobs, were arrested, and attacked over the past 2 yrs if they didn't comply with authority regarding personal medical decisions. You were only allowed to go places if you had a card. "For the better good" was the reason for the past 2 yrs even though it didn't prevent anything.

"I am happy my parents taught me to question everything I thought was abnormal." How have the past 2 yrs been normal? When else in history have healthy people been forced (no coercion) to isolate themselves and change their behaviors to prevent people with illnesses from getting sick?

How do you feel about climate change? If you believe it's real then how do you explain all the times over the past 50 yrs when people predicted that Florida would be underwater by now, that we would be in an ice age, etc. You can change your behavior because you want to but are you sure that your behaviors are actually helping (if you need to cut trees down to build solar farms how is that good for the environment? Solar will reduce co2 more than trees but you lose biodiversity and other stuff that isn't easy to fix. Banning plastic bags didn't change anything because sales of plastic bags increased (people still needed something to put garbage in and to pick up dog poop and before the bans many people reused grocery bags. The ironic thing is that people had explained that reusable bags were havens for germs years before 2020 but it took a social contagion to reverse the ban on plastic bags (which is it, are plastic bags bad for the environment or not) because people didn't trust that people would wash their reusable bags. What will make 2023 onward different that it will suddenly be safe to touch stuff other people have handled. People's behavior won't change and there will always be disease and plastic will still be plastic-reusable bags are also plastic unless they're cotton but "According to a UK government report, to be more eco-friendly than a plastic bag, a cotton bag would have to be used 173 times." Will cotton bags last 173 uses? The heavy duty plastic bags are made from recycled plastic but "Every time plastic is recycled, the polymer chain grows shorter, SO ITS QUALITY DECREASES. The same piece of plastic can only be recycled about 2-3 times before its quality decreases to the point where it can no longer be used." Neither is a good option. One uses more resources but is biodegradable but the other creates less co2 but always remains plastic).

You would be surprised how often people comply despite believing they wouldn't.

Why do you only question what you think is abnormal? Why not question everything (what you think is normal could be abnormal for everyone else)?

@xandor5747

29w↑1

I believe the same is happening in the US, or really anywhere where there is some kind of structure, but not to the extent Nazi Germany had.

Per example, in the US, students are told to go to school, so most go to school.
After High School, the majority say to go to college, so they go to college.
Primary school (pre-school to high school) is extremely structured, almost like a prison. You generally can't leave the classroom unless dismissed, you have to ask to use the bathroom or go to the bubbler, you get punished for breaking rules (which is generally good but can be bad if the rules start to favor one race or sexual orientation over another).

My point is that there's structure, when you try to break free, you are punished.

Moving to social media, most social medias are mobs, especially twitter (or X, currently).
If you believe the opposite of what the majority believe, you will be mobbed, hated, insulted.
People don't like that so they either don't say anything, they argue and stand their ground, or they bend backward and follow what the opposing people said.

Now going back to Nazi Germany. I understand it was much harsher due to an entire race being targeted, but if we aren't careful, the same will happen everywhere else.

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@TheEniqma

2y↑2.7K

Took longer than expected to make this episode. So for those of you who were patiently waiting for an episode, from the bottom of my heart, thank you! 🙆🏻‍♂️✨

@camelthegamer7165

1y↑22

Disturbing how easy we slide into an apathic or aggressive response to one another suffering. Good video, great subject matter and luck to you on this website.

@Zeldaftw

1y↑8

@TheEniqma

1y↑19

Thanks! 😁

@alto7183

1y↑3

Interesante video, creo que hasta en historias de videojuegos han puesto eso de otra perspectiva más fácil de entender pero me temo que termina callendo en el problema de olvidar los mismos principios del renacimiento fallido de oxidente, hasta migala lo tuvo que corregir, falta ver como será el segundo renacimiento de la humanidad no de occidente eurocentralista opinión personal.

@alto7183

1y↑1

Creo que hasta la conversación con mitos antes de la pelea final del video juego tales of symphonia respondería a esto también.

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@maddoxmonteza3017

1y↑21K

imagine being the person who was sick for 6 days and missed all this

@heenthousiast383

1y↑992

lmfao that would most likely be me

@idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472

1y↑1.9K

You ever miss the fascist uprising due to a bad cold

@FaeTheMf

1y↑544

@i don have any idea what to call my account happens all the time😔

@gumiebear6275

1y↑411

Imagine beimg sick for 4 days and coming back to this 😅

@willstind

1y↑522

That kid: NAZIS?!, THIRD WAVE?!, WW2?! I WAS GONE FOR 6 DAYS!!!, WHAT HAPPENED HERE?!?!?!

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@slimecat1197

35w↑9.7K

This isn't about if people are inherently evil. It's about how people are easily persuaded by authority.

@alivegamer816.

35w↑78

Chad

@yeshuaislord6880

34w↑407

Because people are evil. Why do we get persuaded by authority? Because they offer something we want or want to hear. People aren't as dumb as they think they are, but they choose to close their ears to certain things. They say, let me just get through this hurdle, if I can get through this period of hardship then I will do something good. The time then never comes

@slimecat1197

34w↑1

While you're reasoning is correct, I do not agree with the conclusion. Most people are born with sympathy that can be overridden by our inherent desire to fit in. That does not mean we are evil, in fact, I'd say it makes us inherently good. But, that goodness is fragile.

And, it goes back to the age old adage "Hell is paved with good intentions". Evil regimes such as that of the Nazis were built upon the fundamentally good goal of creating utopia. That and dehumanization is how they could justify their actions. They did believe what they were doing is right. So I would say that stupidity is a major part of that.@@yeshuaislord6880

@BygoneT

34w↑28

No. That's the milgram experiment. Don't cope.

@izheanfruit

34w

@@mrherrgatling9597just because one experiment tested something, doesn't mean one experiment can't test the same thing. We are easily persuaded not only by authority, but by a sense of tribalism. Humans aren't intrinsically evil, no matter how much doomer ideologies want to tell you that. What this experiment shows that, humans are willing to protect those they feel tribalistically inclined towards and that we go to great lengths to protect them, even if it means being blinded to the morality of their actions. The people who tend to rebel, are those who view the prescribed encompassing dogma, and resist against it for whatever reason, and once again they may be blinded to morals to see that happen.

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@grantstratton2239

33w↑1.7K

My experience as a lawyer is that 99% of people don't go out in the world thinking, "I'm going to do some evil today." What happens instead is that people fail to empathize and fall prey to their natural bias in favor of themselves over others and their group over other groups. This gets magnified when people perceive they are fighting over scarce resources or are under a great deal of stress, or are seeking to avoid punishment. And people rationalize their choices before or after the fact (or both) so they can silence their consciences and loudly declare that they wholeheartedly believe they were doing the right thing all along and that they never stopped being the kind and conscientious people they believe themselves to be.

So most of the time it's not antipathy but laziness, ignorance, fear, and self-delusion. One mantra I give my clients all the time is, "before you can prove malice, you have to rule out incompetence."

@pointofinterest5981

33w↑16

@justanothermortal1373

33w↑30

I feel like this comment called me out on a personal level. While it was painful to read, I believe you are totally right.

@a.r.m.y.chinghu926

32w↑5

Deep inside everyone's soul knows it. So it's a Choice

@gmann8659

32w↑17

Self preservation is biologically hardwired into our brain. It's no different to how animals behave but for some reason we think we must be selfless because it's the 'right' thing to do.

@grantstratton2239

32w

@gmann8659 Also, humans following their base instincts in our modern world tend to cause abject misery to themselves and everyone around them. I've seen way too many men using violence to rule their households and/or abandoning children, and way too many women attempt to destroy father-child relationships in order to bond kids to their new paramour, and stepmothers either neglecting or trying to steal kids from mothers to believe any differently. (To be clear both sexes engage in all of the behaviors above, it's just way more common in my experience to see the kinds of cases I outlined).

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@jacobpeddycord9218

33w↑213

This made me think of the line, “Ordinary people are capable of Extraordinary things. Those could be good or bad. It’s up to the individual to decide.” It’s chilling to think about the horrific things everyone is capable of.

@LilXancheX

26w↑3

Not everyone is capable. Some are just born different and better than others that’s all

@JohnKickboxing

19w

I'm 100% the moral principle that human race has made is not real at all, it's an abstract idea. The other animal races kills the others to thrive with no feeling of guilty. Don't pretend to be like those paragons of morale. 👌

@shadowguarder2857

16w↑1

that line suggests people decide wheter to be good or bad, as in, that implies people would know if they're being bad? wich is wrong? i mean, at least most of the time. If someone does something it is because :
1 - They think it is good , they agree with it. It is the good thing to do.
2 - They think it is the best option, but they do not agree with it. It is the only thing to do.
3 - They think it is inconsequent, that it does not trully mater. Who cares?

Most of the times anyone does anything, its either 1 or 3, and rarely is it 2. So most of the time, people operate under the assumption what they do is either (1)GOOD, or (3)NEUTRAL, inconsequent. Only under 2 is it even remotely possible for someone to knowingly commit what they think is evil, and only under the assumption that despite it being bad, it is the LEAST bad, and therefore, even 2 is doing the most good possible.

People do not decide wheter or not to be good, they... just.. decide.

@shadowguarder2857

16w↑2

@@LilXancheX That is a terrible way to view things, and that line fits very nicely in the beliefs of many xenophobic and racist people , mate. The concept a person can be born BETTER than another person implies one can be born WORST, and the NOTION that someones' birth defines them as WORST than another is an ideology-red flag for me.

@Archbishop_of_the_Noodle

16w↑1

@@shadowguarder2857 I'm better than the guy born without the chance to comprehend the world around him. Better than the ones that were given everything and are now homeless. Better than the ones whom purposefully beat themselves down.

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@akitoyaname7897

35w↑280

When we studied nazi germany in class, we also read "the wave"(a book based on this case) in another class. Really helped to understand how easy it is to slip into such behaviour and how to spot it

@magnem1043

27w

Its fake news, the wave is debunked but it fits a capitalist democratic narrative

@portalbuilder7021

16w↑2

There’s also a movie based on it

@shadowguarder2857

16w↑4

I believe the root of the problem is the lack of questioning, but mainly the TABOO around questioning.

@landofthesilverpath5823

15w↑3

Ironically, the results undermined Ron Jones's position as a teacher.

Liberals believe teachers should be influential, uniquely praised and even trusted above the parents in many cases!

In the past, including in Germany, teachers were more like tutors who taught you facts in a group setting. They were given respect, but not like in a liberal democracy.

And the fact is, Ron Jones taught these kids good things. Discipline, honor, duty. All these things have been universally recognized as positives goods since time immemorial. This isn't what made fascism unique, lol. Hell even communists of the 20's agreed with fascism on that.

@joeroscoe3708

31w↑76

Very rarely do people think to themselves "What I'm doing is evil."
Far less than we observe daily

@landofthesilverpath5823

15w↑2

No, not at all. Even serial killers understand what they do is evil. They try to justify it to themselves, but unless they are truly criminally insane, which is rare, they ultimately recognize the evilness.

The distinguishing characteristics is that serial killers are highly dysfunctional anti-social personalities combined with a total lack of empathy.

I'd suggest we all take the advice of the anti-authoritarians who believe that questioning authority is the key to preventing totalitarianism. And ultimately, we need to question the historical assumptions and dogmas of people like Jones, even!

Sometimes an event which makes no sense at all, makes no sense because something is incorrect in thr narrative itself. The story we've been told.

@joeroscoe3708

15w

@@landofthesilverpath5823 Ok, well...barring serial killers who arent insane...most people dont think they're evil.
The nazis thought they were the good guys.
Ghengis Khan thought he was doing Gods work.
Millions if Americans shamed their neighbors into taking an experimental drug, paving the way for medical tyranny.
And even when they know what they're doing is wrong, they justify it to themselves as being for the greater good.
Very rarely does someone say to themself "What I'm doing is wrong and if i dont stop, then that means im an evil person."
When it comes down to doing what is right vs what is safe for themselves...most people will choose safe and then convince themself it was the right thing to do.

@SMCwasTaken

14w

@@landofthesilverpath5823they're created not born

If you disagree then you're an ignorant PeePee

@covenantaus2625

14w↑1

That's because Satan tries to put pride into the human heart which is naturally (in this world at least) fuelled by sin unless regenerated by the holy spirit of God the father , the father of Jesus the Messiah. Simple , I know because I used to be a drug addicted witch but now 3 years after meeting God I am clean from drugs completely and free from my sex addictions also❤

@jibob6959

12w

@@landofthesilverpath5823not exactly,naiz and Japanese empire they didn't thinking something they did is evil untill they're lose to USA or tourerer from history they didn't exactly define themselves as a evil or good person. You can watched many interviews from Yakuza or gangster even if they're killing other or exploits they still think their idealogy is better in own way like us.

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@KingOpenReview

1y↑15.7K

"We're born evil."
Experiment: Shows normal people becoming evil over time after careful manipulation of concepts that happen to be good for survival.

@4storyboss

1y↑1.1K

breaking bad moment

@PsiJuicu

1y↑1.5K

we live in a susciety😔😔😔

@harbour2118

1y↑1.3K

Its clickbait through an edgy thumbnail title

@Bunny-ft9dy

1y↑618

@Harbour21 1 seriously, I'm tired of this shit popping up on my page lmao

@atsold95

1y↑34

Just hilarious

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@henriquebbotelho

26w↑11

The movie based on this experiment “the third wave” is absolutely amazing, both in a philosophical way and a cinematic way

@wilhelminekoch2974

29w↑21

I read a book about this and over the time I was weirdly convinced of his idea and felt the sense of community alongside with the students. I was even mad at the few students who stood up against the Third Wave. Imagine how shocked I was at the end and more shocked when I reflected on what I just believed was right.

@dalton6108

33w↑114

I did something like this in 3rd grade. Called each other the knights. I was the white knight and my friend was the black knight. We grew substantially in 3 weeks till we recruited every student at recess ( close to 100 students ). Then we organized a rebellion and stormed the 3 teachers watching us and ultimately overpowered them. Then we charged the gates and got into the centers of the school. We saw the front gate of the school was open and charged it. 100 kids running like a pack of hungry wolves. I heard grunting and screaming in the back. I looked back and it was the janitor blasting through us like a quarterback trying to beat us to the gate. He beat us to the gate and locked it from the outside. Every teacher got involved at that point and we were all sent home to our parents 2 hours later after a talk from the principal. 😂

It’s so easy to form a group like this as long as there’s no immediate discipline. I remember when we were charging in unison it was the best feeling in the world. Tribal and free.

@crumbs6393

30w↑5

You have my respect my guy

@KM8i

30w↑49

That's the most fake shit I've heard in a long time

@fred5406

29w

Bullshit

@gooberjoober5691

29w↑19

Is the elementary school named fiction high?

@dalton6108

29w↑7

@@achair1 actually happened tbh lol. Started off with us playing with sticks, moved to leveling up, then to dnd storyline( started recruiting people at that point because people got interested ) , then we go organized, and so forth.

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@nishattasnim7651

20w↑4

This is why it's so important to question the authority

@blademasterzero

32w↑6

“Which is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort” -paarthurnax

@burnttoast385

1y↑3.2K

@Forpus888

1y↑463

The teachers: just another day in the normal life! XD

@jonharrison3114

1y↑240

Was waiting for a :Angry or something but it never came

@nwut

1y↑234

the bullied kid fights back: other teachers

@Thegrimgobler3570

1y↑157

Prity much. Most schools are actually really incompetent at basic things. A while back a tone of kids ended up drinking floor cleaner instead of mike because: the milk and floor cleaner were delivered in almost identical bags, they were both stored in the same place, no one thought to check the labels when they were filling up the machines, and because when several students came to the teachers saying that the milk was 'burny', the only thing that happened was that two teachers did a 'sniff test' of the odourless cleaner. Lots of kids wound up in hospital. The reality is that lots of teachers aren't very well trained or coordinated. Especially in the us were their basically paid minimum wage.

@Fatlosergaming

1y↑29

That's California for ya.

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@kauffrau6764

36w↑47

I wish general education in high school taught the brown eye/blue eye experiment - we're probably not allowed to actually do it anymore due to psychological damage. Also, the Milgram experiment. Perhaps it is too much for people to handle. Not to mention the results of the Stanford prison experiment. I've had a lifelong interest in psychology. I appreciate knowing this information.

@landofthesilverpath5823

15w

Happens today all the time. For real. White children, many of whom are blue eyed. are taught they are lesser and internetly evil. Starting in grade school and accelerating all the way up to post secondary education.

We have an entire generation today who have effectively been taught to hate an entire race.

@iv4nq

35w↑52

I was having difficulties believing how someone could follow Hitler. I feel so stupid after this, great video!

@gggo1967

20w

This experiment is stupid.

@olaf-chan-728

20w↑6

there are lots of discord cults out there, the system of ranks they did and the feel of an actual interaction can give really make losers feel included

@curious_one1156

15w↑3

The key is to tell them upfront that "its just an experiment", but also that one of their grades depends upon participation.
Of course, the one conducting needs to have some authority first.

@Lily4444

32w↑7

It just proves that there are few ppl that can really think off there own and have the balls to stand up against what everybody thinks

@kamikeserpentail3778

30w↑8

@Auron3991

1y↑3.4K

People often forget that evil is not just the grand, large examples. It's the little things one justifies into a box they don't need to think about.

@maxmanchik

1y↑129

Although, it would be wrong to say that anyone is born evil. We're all born neutral. It's the environment that shapes us into who we are

@mousesunset

1y↑27

People tend to believe what they were doing was right if they were taught since born.

@PsiJuicu

1y↑6

@@mousesunset that doesn't make it right, so they were wrong

@hannahscholtzz7355

1y↑30

reminds me of this quote i can't find, but it goes something like this:
"You don't have to be evil to do evil things. You just have to let evilness happen"

@someboi4505

@PsiJuicu no shit Sherlock, this man explained the most basic idea ever to you and you think that justifies shit? Don’t insult your intelligence unless you actually believe the Nazis knew they were evil and relished in it, in which case it isn’t merely an insult it’s the honest truth of your intelligence

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@savagedeviljho2879

35w↑20

I read this book once in class.
"Die Welle", while it was pretty boring due to it being during school and forced.
It's still pretty good to get reminded on how people can be manipulated, by just one single person (in power?) with enough authority.

@myeong-hee6041

34w↑165

It just shows how easily fragile we are, easily manipulated we can be. I like to think we aren’t born good or evil, definitely having morals for the most of us and I guess you can define that as being born good but we are like clay, we can be molded into anything and that itself can be a scary thing.

@neilreynolds3858

33w↑4

We're evil but we try to blame somebody else.

@tegathemenace

31w

We are born like every other creature in nature.
Amoral and selfish.
Conditioning changes this.

@oscaralegre3683

29w↑4

@@neilreynolds3858 i never met an evil baby. Do You?

@juliearien4679

27w↑2

@@oscaralegre3683 have you ever wondered at what point do we turn evil? When ever I read about any serial killer, cold blooded murder, rapist, I kind of have a habit of imagining their innocent childhood. Like they were once so innocent. I recently read about a case of a 8 year old serial killer. So i am kind of stuck..at the thought that maybe we are born evil or good?

@oscaralegre3683

27w↑1

@@juliearien4679 damn!!! 8 years old serial killer? First time i heard something like that! Whats his name?

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@sammurabi4743

30w↑4

The only real positive mote I can give this video is that it made me aware of the experiment, so i could go seek out better sources on it that weren't hyper dramatized with with a title and thumbnail so out of pocket that it makes me wonder if the video creator didnt miss the point of the experiment a bit.

@ghostgoomba8816

40w↑27

ive always felt like an outlier amongst others. ive grown up with both parents lying to me about one another and my mom lying about addiction. so ive been relatively good at seeing deception. for some reason i can just look at a person and know whats in their heart. what they're feeling, if there's malicious or deceptive intent. ive always stood for morals and what is right, not by mans law but by this morality, do not kill, be humble and kind to one another, protect those that need protecting, give to others without expecting anything in return, only harm to save your life but never take life, cherish those around you even if they dont cherish you, be mindful of what you say for words cut deeper than a knife, love and respect those who do not show you the same, and if someone where to sue me id let them take my tunic as well. people aren't born evil, no.... people become evil through pain, indoctrination, propaganda, and having basic humanity taken from them, a person can be kind loving and compassionate but all it could take is one to a few people that will cause immense pain or trauma and that compassionate person becomes evil and harms others. theres powers and principalities at work in society, they want to kill steal and destroy, but we dont have to follow in others footsteps, we can be loving and compassionate without violence, love one another dont hate. hate only leads to more hate

@Fido-vm9zi

34w↑2

I agree with you

@Cutiejuliya

33w↑1

Same

@tfkdandsvkc

33w

I agree I feel like an outlier always being the kind caring person but humans have been so brutal to me that I feel like am jaded or broken I don't like people anymore or want to be near them I would much rather live in an island far from society

@Fido-vm9zi

33w↑2

@@xahani1287 you can't blame everyone forever based on your past experiences. Everyone is different. I truly understand what you are saying. It's hard to pull out of that when you lose faith in others. I hope you come to find a friend or two in yourself, and just know, you literally have an enormous universe inside yourself. A whole infrastructure of living parts working hard for you! You are FAR from alone! Hope you find just one good friend and/or dedicate yourself to a pet. Cool things are brewing! Best wishes!

@tfkdandsvkc

33w

@@Fido-vm9zi thanks 👍 been feeling extremely lonely and lost in life especially when it comes to humans since they have been a source of my pain but other than that I actually love life alot I love nature I love traveling alone but I still don't like people they are very scary to me but life is still beautiful as I enjoy many other things that don't involve people

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@jamesmills1546

33w↑2

My school does a similar simulation every year for the senior class, however it is much more controlled and has rules in place to prevent it from impeding too much on your outside life. The totalitarian simulation teaches us what such a society would be like and teaches us that nobody would really like to be there.

@smarkbustersstink3471

1y↑3K

It doesn't prove we are evil, it just proves how fragile humans are that anyone with enough power can easily control us

@youtubestudiosucks978

50w↑46

How much power is needed at the bare minimum to control you?

@WorldKeepsSpinnin

47w

@@youtubestudiosucks978 It would have to threaten my life to control me, Even then it would only work for so long. Threatening things i love would also only work for so long, Even if thats selfish of me its how i am. Only i decide what i do. I would say im pretty smart about it though, I can make you think you control me until magically im the one on top and you are bowing to me. Thats only on a personal note though. On a scale like covid-19 where you cant do anything without a vaccine it becomes a little more tricky but still doable but something like that is probably the only way to truly control every type of person, IF there wasn't a threat of civil war. Luckily, That threat always exists. As this video shows, Theres alot of ways to start uprisings, and they happen pretty quickly.

@AndersonMallonyMALLONY-EricCF

46w↑165

@catfrogman in your case just a Pokeball.

@youtubestudiosucks978

46w↑20

@anderson mallony Mallony Eric i'm a digimon that just happens to look like a vaporeon. Pokeballs dont work on digimon.

@You-vv1xv

46w↑41

nobody can control me, my ass will be too busy snoozing

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@thegreatpotato6098

42w↑1

The presentation, the delivery, the music. You are underrated and that is a crime

@XShadowzVarcolac

29w↑5

My highschool also did a similar experiment but instead of one class it was a competition by two of our social studies teachers and the class groups they personally taught. We had almost all the things 3rd wave experiment have, a mantra/set of rules, unique hand gestures, only thing missing was hierarchal positions. The objective was to have students to place their respective teacher's symbol in as many places as possible and either side were allowed to tear down the opposing symbol, basically it was like a territory war. Funny thing is that despite having no rewards for participating almost every student in those classes were willing to put and tear down symbols, and if someone gets caught red handed by either teacher, a simple glare would make them try to undo their actions.

@picofaradactyl

27w↑1

You were born to radiate confidence, self-respect, and inner harmony.

@nonserviam.1574

35w↑3

Thinking back to how stupidly stubborn I was at school, I think I would have stood up and got away. I had a teacher that wanted us to do similar things: straight backs, a special way to greet him, walking in perfect order along the wall, and he used to get scary when someone didn't obey... Let's just say I risked expulsion on one of the first days of my first year of highschool because of him. A classmate wanted to exit the room about 20 minutes before the end of the lesson because she had to take the bus, but the teacher claimed it was still too early by blatantly shouting at her. So I got up and said something among the lines of "keep your composure" (which is a very polite way to tell him to chill out in Italian language). God, he became furious. I stood there until he had called the vicepresident of the school, and I had to explain myself. At the end of the day, I didn't get an expulsion and the teacher somehow forgot what had happened and started kind of liking me. Not respecting me yet, but still, he was gentler with me and kept asking my opinion when he got into an argument with other classmates. Dude gave me the chills at how fascist his behaviour was. Italy still has fascists walking among common people, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if he actually was. I didn't know much about politics at that time, but I guess istinctively I was already out of the far-right party.

@sage_silvestris

33w↑8

As someone who was mercilessly bullied since early childhood(from 5-6 years of age) I cannot even imagine feeling drawn towards such movements. On the other hand I can see my bullies justifying themselves in this way. Maybe it was my upbringing why I never once felt part of a community in my entire life. Communities, especially male communities are based on authority, individual respect, and social success, often in the price of righteousness, conscience and consideration. In a way their natural course ends in similar totalitarian system.

@incognit01233

33w

@forbidden-cyrillic-handle

14w

You'd join an anti-bullying group that says they want to stop bullying.

Your choice will be to be bullied more or less. If you don't join them they will also bully you, because you are not on their side, i.e. you are agains them. If you join them then they will protect you.

@dogsarethecutest

1y↑2.7K

"We give our freedom up for the chance of being special" This is deep.

@AndersonMallonyMALLONY-EricCF

46w↑32

Sounds very familiar.

@geboeschtt9732

45w↑67

A thing that EVERYBODY should commit to mind and memory: FREEDOM IS NOT NEGOTIABLE! Never, ever give up Freedom for security or some other perceived or paraded bullshit.

@amberalden4965

45w↑4

Wow

@havel6060

41w↑4

Twitter

@thechosenone5421

37w↑8

@@geboeschtt9732 Within limits, or else you'll just become a Karen

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@elvenkind6072

33w↑35

Really interesting and thought provoking video. I don't miss the times of youth and going to school, being part of a mass of kids with nearly blank minds that adults was eager to imprint all sorts of ideas on. I've always felt as though I've been on the outside of whatever is going on, looking at it from the outside, a neutral, and purely logic place of observation.

It's often been traumatic with a kind of mental video recording, processing things I've done unsatisfactorily or without the needed knowledge or experience that's been expected. The judgements of whatever errors I've done have been terribly harsh, while errors others have done have been something I've gotten used to just accepting as something human.

There's a kind of innate Law that the consciousness are bound to follow through life, where the mind either approve what we do as the expected and correct and lawfully correct behavior, and whenever the Law has been unsatisfactorily completed, while communicating with others and cooperating to do whatever have been expected, the result is a merciless inner judgement.

So if I should use myself as an example of whatever is Human, I'd say that we are all like soft clay in our youth, and very vulnerable to those with more experience, knowledge and/or as Lawfully fulfilled lives.

@Mugcup300

30w↑2

Confidence and authority is what makes someone so great, great enough to even become evil infront of the eyes of the good...

@buggytheprophet1017

28w↑7

One key thing you missed totally, the teacher used learned behavioral concepts to manipulate the students to act like that, it’s literally impossible to do this kind of test without at least 20 people who speak different languages and were born in different places

@bethanyheath-jones5373

37w↑2

How on earth do you not have more subscribers? Stumbled upon you're channel today and am binge watching

@tacticalturtlez4906

1y↑2.1K

“villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.” The issue is not about being born bad, it is rather about being convinced the bad is good.

@sunilwadghule7567

1y↑3

Very true

@Chuckichanly

very easy to say that nazi germany and all of its citizens was the most evil thing in the world, not so easy to take some time to understand the reasons they had the beliefs they had, normies will always be normies, the truth isnt for everyone

@teetbeezoon

1y↑19

Evil truly triumphs when you convince yourself that your wrongdoings are for the "Greater Good".

@Just_a_Goth

52w↑12

Kinda like how greed and divisiveness are promoted here in America.

@Laughability_real

51w↑18

What people fail to realize with this, is that ‘being convinced’ in this sense does not necessarily mean by other people. Any experiences in life can convince someone about what is right, even small ones. Let’s take falling down for example. After falling down and getting some bruises, your brain leaves with the message that trying not to fall down is (part of) the correct way to live. With a few exceptions, your brain will then try to avoid actions that will result in you falling down. Now take this, but on a larger scale, and someone can start believing that taking ‘bad’ actions, or ones that inherently harm others is the correct way to live.

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@MrZkoki

36w↑7

Reminds me of a German movie called "the wave". It was to me suggested by my German language tutor. Interesting movie, very thought provoking. The plot seems to draw heavily from this social experiment.

@magnem1043

15w

Its a political piece, there is nothing scientific about it

@worldofwarcraftman2

35w↑1

"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."
~Lord Vetinnari

One of the best quotes to sum up the situation. It's not that people are overly evil. It's mostly the people simply do not want to kick The hornet's nest in people do not think. Or if they do think they think they are alone. If they stand up everyone will turn on them. Usually community and family are strong guards against this behavior as well as weak government.

@philippeamon7271

33w↑3

My history teacher in high school, Jens, adopted Jones' demeanor to the point, when he was instantly dubbed Nazi-Jens, hammer-gait and everything. And he went through the material, with the utmost passion. He was all but universally beloved, for the attention he could command by his presence and consequent deep seriousness, from a room full of otherwise hormonal and disinterested boys.

Jones, by contrast, did not so much "experiment", as push for a very specific outcome, exploiting the empty sense of identity and anxiety that often plagues young people, and did not prove the third Reich, so much as he proved The Lord Of The Flies. The only aspect of fascism the experiment could demonstrate, was how it generated an environment, to allow the fat kid to stick his thing in the sexy girls, now that he could finally threaten them, with accusations of betrayal against the Holy Order, ostracising them and further violence, bullying them into silence. In return, the fat kid would use his physical superiority, as a threat to anyone threatening his access to that power, in the understanding there was no other way for him to access pussy. And that was the fear device, that kept everyone in check.

@azers8298

28w↑18

We’re not evil. We’re social. We tend to follow group and autority. But it can lead to as much good as bad

@randomdude5649

26w

Im from Germany and i actually believe that more than 70% of us humans are Evil. I realized it after i went to my first year in middle school.There was a skinny not so good looking classmate ,he did not provoke others as much as the other classmates. More than 80%of the class bullied him and they had NO reason at all. They took pictures of him and edited these pictures in an ugly inhuman way.Even the teachers bullied him he asked the Classteacher for help and she just dismissed him and said that he should go to the English teacher(wich made no sense) and at the same time we talked about problemes and fights of other classmates for hours.Everyone was talking bad about him without a benifit at all ,what is the benefit of throwing him around even if there is no other classmate watching you? We had an Whatsapp group chat and more than 80%were talking shit about im there to even though their parents found it out and were angry at them.The most benifical thing would be to do nothing but bulling him was self harm in the end. If at one day this old poor classmate kills himself or someone that bullied him i wouldnt be surprised. People are full of hate and stuipid nonsens ,In ruanda there was a genocide where family members killed other family members, where grandpas killed kids, on the streets in the houses in the garden , everywere without a bene
fit at all.

@Thegrimgobler3570

1y↑4.5K

As much as I like this video, I don't think that the experiment proved that humans are inherently evil. It did however prove that we are susceptible to strong authority. Especially when sed authority makes us feel strong, starts out small, gives solid incentives, and comes from someone who already has some authority and is well liked.

@diaatlus

1y↑318

I agree, i feel like this proved people are susceptible to manipulation and positive reinforcement. Which is why its important to teach people to look out for this

@Adagm

1y↑22

@BoomyManlyMan I feel the funny juice running through my veins.

@littlesamu5920

1y↑85

@Diana Mitchell of course teens would do anything for an A, I mean I'm surprised no one even told their parents on the 1st day that they were gonna get and F if they didn't obey their teacher

@mattgamei5vods649

1y↑6

@@boomymanlyman9876 Man, what part of this is relevant to that?

@harkharring2572

1y↑55

I agree, this is on a level above ‘video games cause violence’. It’s more like ‘LARPing creates murderers”.

They were quite literally playing a game, one which many would have liked to play in school, possibly to a lesser extent.

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@HSFAlex

20w↑1

“There are two wolves fighting within all of us; one good, and one evil. Which one wins? The one you feed”

@JAMEZANDRADE

42w↑11

Never heard of this story but did hear about another uni study where some were guards and others prisoners but damn this is insane.
Explaines a lot of what has been happening socially in the past few years.
Great video.

@DanielaSpigule

28w↑2

I believe the study you heard of was conducted by zimbardo and it took place in stanford university!

@user-yn1zp3sd6p

27w

@@DanielaSpigule which was proven to be manipulated by the creator of the experiment to get attention, i recommend Humankind by Rutger Bregman, talks about this among other experiments that claim to have proven people are evil by their nature. he goes through what happened, and the result is quite hopeful

@yeetermarc6753

29w↑2

now i know how to start a movement
thanks!

@burnttoast.2017

30w↑2

You know, what I find the most interesting is that people who see their perceived enemy will say it's "just like this (insert thing you dislike here)" but refuse to acknowledge that we all are in something like this. Its not one sided.

@BigfoxN-A-chiccenhouse

32w

The algorithm worked today. Subbed

@burnttoast1076

1y↑1.5K

Anyone that has been bullied in school will not have a hard time understanding that people will do bad things if they can get away with it. People will readily exclude others so they can feel special.

@randybaumery5090

1y↑25

AGREED.

@porshprix4286

1y↑15

That is true.

@GiRR007

43w↑58

Human nature to form groups, usually exclusive groups. It gives a sense of community AND uniqueness when usually those two things contradict. This makes group forming particularly powerful.

@justspittingsomefacts6425

41w↑37

As someone who is bullied in highschool I fvckin relate to this. I'm just now a misanthrope hating everyone

@al-imranadore1182

40w↑31

That makes us inherently evil, we're only good when we repeatedly face the harsh consequences of our evil actions.

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@FireyDeath4

31w↑3

It would be pretty interesting if he only got a few specific students to watch the presentation - then assigned the A grade to any of the students who manage to deconvert others from the Third Wave, or be deconverted without having attended the presentation. That would make it a pretty good test, I think

@bricksloth2599

30w↑2

I wouldn't say this means people are inherently evil. But when a person in a position of authority uses that to put people under duress people will act cruel in their own interest. I feel that its important to note that as the teacher he had pretty close to complete authority so the kids were predisposed to do as he said. He then provided them with an situation that seemed to be able to seriously effect their future. The kids were told if they participated to the best of their ability they would get an A, but if they attempted a revolution they would get either an A or an F dependent on wether or not it succeeded. Anyone with half a brain would see this and think "oh, well one way is a guarantee, the other has an incalculable potential for failure" and then go with the safe option. Not evil, just self interested.

@ErdbeerEmma

21w↑1

Bro im. From Germany and this experiment was done and we had a book about it as Mandatory reading
I loved this expiriment and i love that's it a duty in my country to learn about it

@Sillyelh

35w↑3

Iirc there is an amateurish film made in Germany, that was being seen in basically every classroom (mandatory I believe) when I was a middle school kid. Its name was "Die Walle" (The Wave) and it was about exactly this thought experiment. It's not a 10/10, but I recommend watching it.

@talasqueira2192

32w

This video even gave me chills, awesome stuff. Got my sub 👍

@NexAngelus405

1y↑887

"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger In A Strange Land

@happyjohn354

1y↑42

"Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics—you name it—is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is—not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be." -Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

@yasukeyato5915

1y↑8

GOWDAYM THATS DEEP ASF

@TheVnator

1y↑16

@yasuke yato And then the main character of that book starts a worldwide sex cult

@PsiJuicu

1y↑2

@@TheVnator i didn't realise the quote was from "Stranger from a strange land" lmao
Well the alien did accomplish something 😂

@yasukeyato5915

@V N THE STRANGE LAND ONE???? I WANNA READ

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@douglasmatheson403

40w

I read this in a book 30+ years ago.....the scary thing is: that very similar things are happening on "both sides of the fence" and "around it" right now everything is becoming very polarized. Until one can see thru things, one will fall in line, just as "before" ......Have a nice evening now, and enjoy your programming!

@arkman2237

35w↑1

Aside from the click bait title, very interesting video on the nature of people, this also relates to the psychological idea of integration of the shadow, understanding the concept and premise of this experiment would shed light into our own darkness that lies deep within us, and making it conscious would greatly benefit us because what happened during Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia or Mao's China, will happen again, Gavin knowledge of ourselves is a kind of medicine against social contagion

@vladislavkaras491

18w↑1

Thanks for the video!

@user-wr6zt9lh7n

29w

I thought on this for a while, and the conclusion I came to was that,
If an action benefits the society and the humankind (in both short and long term) it is considered good.
However, if it brings harm to the society and its future or its members, it is considered evil.

You might question, 'what about animal rights?'
That only happens if you consider animals as a member of your own society.

@irevelato

31w

Excellent video sir. Perfect execution.

@Santiago-un5fp

45w↑3.4K

Giving a purpose to a person is very powerful. A lot of us live the day by day without direction, but at the moment we get a purpose we exceed the expectations of our capabilities. No matter what the purpose is, we all just want too live our lives feeling we are fighting for something of value. This is ingrained in human nature.

@KhalikOketokun

35w↑96

Beautifully put, this can even be attributed to almost all successful people.

Purpose is the most realistic representation of magic as the drive, concentration, flow, consistency, and belief can shatter almost any barrier.

@user_name_redacted

33w↑18

There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose, for as we both know, without purpose we would not exist. It is purpose that created us, purpose that connects us, purpose that pulls us, that guides us, that drives us; it is purpose that defines, purpose that binds us.

FYI Embracing your lack of purpose makes you realise you are in fact free, you can make your own choices to shape your future. Don't be a smith, be a neo. Be free

@jakewhite9691

33w

Does this mean everyone will eventually find that "purpose"?

@AutoRauto

33w

But literally everyone has got their purpose, there is noone on earth who's just living just day to day. We are all trying to make our huge dreams a reality.

@alexandreprodan5014

33w↑30

@@AutoRautonot i this reality. If you really ask people honestly wou will see how few actually have a pasion a dream a goal. At most very fe have formulated a dream and do nothing to accomplish it. And even less than that havve a passion and are actively trying to make it a reality.

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@idkmankindawack

20w

Societal pressure keeps us in line for the most part I feel like
Especially for the ones in a different mindset so to speak

@upholst

33w↑1

As someone with over three years' service in military school; this type of environment feels VERY familiar.

@coledoe1030

29w↑1

It matters not how you’re born. Good, evil, poor, rich, happy, sad, or anything else… the only things that matter in life is finding your own reason to be good and your dreams.

@JJ-jh6dk

37w↑1

This reminds me of a movie called Die Welle (The Wave) 2008 - great social commentary, absolutely recommend but it might be a bit hard to find.

The main point of the movie as with the experiment, is definitely not that everyone is born evil though.

@maikybourgeois5086

32w↑3

I have seen the movie inspired by this: « The Wave » (Die Welle), was released in 2009. I saw it in history class and it was a bit frightening to see the potential of malfeasance you could develop in a short span of time

@freddytheshadowninja

1y↑635

What's even worse is that some of the students were probably like, "Damn, this is actually kinda awesome. We should do this ALL the time!"

@PsiJuicu

1y↑117

Just imagine yourself in that situation, the classmates you didn't like swear to be your comrades y'all have special salutes, banners and everything, won't you be excited too?

@freddytheshadowninja

1y↑31

@PsiJuicu I can't say for sure. On one side, I was pretty conservative because of my family, so maybe I would have fallen for it. On the other hand, I'm a recluse and I hated seeing people caught up in groupthink. Our English teacher also gave us a good section devoted to Holocaust literature, so I'd hope that I was wise to fascist bullshit.
All in all, this type of thing (peer pressure/tribalist/bandwagon bullshit) pissed me off then and now, so probably not.

@PsiJuicu

1y↑22

@@freddytheshadowninjaehh i think I'll just have fun with the others, while not getting too serious about it

@golonkowiczpl

1y↑1

@PsiJuicu Even more exciting would be creating underground opposition. Make it look like communist and spread your own propaganda. I would be only afraid of "civil war" when it escalates.

@seanhartnett79

1y↑8

@freddytheshadowninja yes anyone on the left and right could call each other comrades and start this stuff.

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@KyleWolf15

30w

It's a sense of belonging.

We all want to connect and belong.

@mezhdu_

34w↑1

thank you for this, i was able to get an A on my English paper about Fahrenheit 451 and the threat of powerful government's due to you. <3

@khaoscualdawath

28w↑7

I love how people keep coming up with polar opposite ideals one after another, nearly perfectly avoiding the obvious all the time. It is not that we were born good, or bad. We are born with potential for both, and actually it is the best if we can expand into both. Know what good and what extent of bad we can do - it makes strong people.

@MisteriesnEntities

34w

This should be turned into a movie to rise awareness

@TexanKid

19w

It is insane how “oh how fun” becomes a literal cult or political movement so easily
It takes NO effort, as long as you a trusted authority

@matthewmartin9749

1y↑370

“What is better – To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?” ~Paarthurnax, Skyrim

@silverhawkscape2677

1y↑31

What's better is to be good and overcome all obstacles that make you evil regardless if you were born good or not.

@Temporalplace

1y↑13

Its not about good or bad, but value. Its also good if you born good, but if you were born evil and overcame evil nature it is still good but the value of goodness is greater in second case.

@MuayTiger11

1y↑8

The latter is far more admirable, in my opinion.

@FallenFlag9

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@phoenixreaper8038

1y↑3

@SilverHawkScape that’s the thing nobody is born good we All are Evil sinners but is our choice what defines us between good & bad so we humans have half good & half bad we are Antihero’s that’s human nature the bible tells us that before in genesis that humans used to have a mind like babies our first parents were not antihero’s they were Good until our first fathers & mothers were deceived by the devil & ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of intelligence the devil offered to us to be like God but for a price Eve & Adam ate the apple & later learn what is right & wrong & humans naturally became sinners & evil so they couldn’t stay in the garden of eden of eternal life that’s why humans now in days feed on chaos & we love it & the thing is we all deserve to die but if it wasn’t for Jesus who gave his life on the cross we wouldn’t be saved so we’re all evil & to be judged

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@Jay2JayGaming

30w

We, as human beings, do not use logic to inform our morality and then morality to judge our decisions. Rather, we use logic to find the magic combination of words which makes the actions we were already going to take, look moral. The fact is, people apply empathy selectively. They consider nuance, selectively. They consistently distort their perspectives and the narrative until it justifies whatever action they perceive to be the most beneficial to them. Even if it isn't. Even if it's really hurting them. Because the people around you, from the very moment you are born, attempt to manipulate you into having the perspective of the world which results in the actions they want you to take.

And like all high-minded moralism, it lasts only as long as it is not expedient to ignore.

@zacharynash-pate291

29w↑2

The two most important aspects of the experiment.
1) these individuals were children.
2) these individuals has there innate freedoms manipulated.

While I do agree that we are born into evil, I cannot agree that we are born evil.
The spirit of mankind needs to be coerced in order to obtain these results. The children we're being oppressed under the guise of a social experiment.

@Meisha-san

33w

I grew up in apartheid South Africa & I watched so many get hurt & scarred for life. I also watched as a battered country promised, never again. Now, I'm not very much older, hardly a generation has passed, & I'm watching it all happen again in reverse.

To say I'm shocked is an understatement. Nobody's admitting it – the human being is severely flawed & can't be fixed...

@voidax5220

34w

You know, im glad im so un-movable in my sense of self. I literally got bullied gor being too nice and a plethora of other reasons im not sure of during high school, but i never caved and still haven't. I'll never surrender when it comes to myself. I dont agree entirely with anyone and im apart from everyone and im happy this way.

@holehostage3514

32w

Now kids and adults, this is why u never ever follow any instructions without asking why, and is also why u need to start to learn to cope with loneliness and be comfortable being alone, away from people.
Herd mentality kills all. Learning to think and be by urself is the best way to live.

@holyvipers9814

45w↑861

I read the original essay, his words, his fright, his regret. How he felt like a dictator, how when he nearly wasn't careful enough, he nearly become that dictator. It feels like a fictional horror story, a story of trauma you'd tell at a campfire with a roasted marsh mellow on your stick. Yet this was real... this happened... and to me? This is truly unnerving

@Smratboy

33w↑15

The guy loved it. It was only when he started getting attention he called it off.

@nickm9102

33w↑10

This event has been written as a teen lvl book as well. I remember reading the book out of curiosity in 8th grade.

@chrisi7127

33w↑12

@@nickm9102I'm austrian and we read the book in middle school.

@delanovanraalte3646

30w↑5

if he gave it a month he wouldnt be able to get himself to stop it and even if he himself were able to make himself stop he wouldnt be able to stop the students

@christheclamper6614

35w

History teachers are the best man my favorite school subject by far

@TheAlmightyAri

34w↑1

In our class we read and watched the movie. It was so weird and all of us were simply speechless.

@Tsundaere

29w

We are born with the capability for both good and evil.
The folly of most people is that they embrace one extreme and ignore the danger of not integrating the other into the whole.
One can do evil actions for the greater good as much as one can do good actions with evil repercussions.
Truth as a whole lies within the harmony and balance of the shadow and the light.

@buu_approved8729

39w

This sounds like the coolest classroom experiment ever 😂😂😂

@RedNumber19

30w↑1

We are all born with good and evil, it’s just what we decide to do with them that makes us. Dr Jekyll and Me Hyde is basically the perfect example of this, as Dr Jekyll splits the good and evil into two separate sides, and leaves the evil to fester. Eventually, the evil becomes too powerful, and overtakes Dr Jekyll. You should not be evil, but keep it close to you and remember your flaws.

@owenhammond1880

2y↑1.8K

This why I am happy my parents taught me to question everything I thought was abnormal. I've never been in an experiment like this but part of my mind would be wondering "Why are we doing this?" Yes I could do something about it but it's just me.

@namename9998

1y↑72

@owenhammond1880

1y↑147

@name name Jesus somebody likes to hear themselves talk.

@Tova-Barin

1y↑52

@Owen Hammond someone likes to think of himself as superior

@jacobnebel7282

@@namename9998 JFC. The answer is none. Exactly zero times in the past 50 years has there been a prediction in the scientific literature that Florida would be underwater or that we were going into an ice age. There have been models of X sea level rise by Y year under Z conditions. A small minority of papers published before the advent of useful computing power and satellite data predicted cooling.

@lolglolblol

1y↑127

Sorry, but I find it hilarious that you could watch a whole video about the fact that regular people are easily swept up by movements like this without realizing what's going on and then go to the comments and boast about how you'd be different.
You might be, sure, but chances are you're already part of something without really questioning it.
Like that one Garfield meme says: "You're not immune to propaganda" Don't believe you're better than others because that exact mindset leads to the very complacency you believe yourself to be immune to

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@lisianthuscrimson5034

28w↑1

I probably would've joined cuz it sounds so interesting and fun and would probably be oblivious to all the chaos.

@martonmakhult3416

32w↑2

This is more like basic tribalistic behavior which is in all of us by instinct. There is always a sense of "us" and "them", because thats how we are all wired which is not necessarily an evil thing, but sometimes one charismatic strong voice is enough to tune this tendency up to the most extreme. To a level where individual reason starts to lag behind strong emotions like ecstasy or fear.
The more well defined and confident ones group appears to be, the more stonger and safer the individual feels in it. There are a lot of things people are capable to do, to gain this sense of feeling, its almost like a drug. And then there are the rest who just driven by fear of being ostracized or getting punished for not stepping in line with the rest.

@Luidwigvonsee

33w

dude you should do a follow up with the Millgram experiments and the game of death! very nice video!

@rbsllapbaplaprap448

27w

We need classroom that built like this

@android7764

30w

(After watching this into our video)
I want to say that essentially this is how Apple as a company works but people love getting slightly scammed by a company that's run with slight of hand fascism through compelling marketing and neatly integrated features.

@LaZonaDiRin3743

2y↑5.1K

No, we born neutral, nothing Is evil, It's the enviroment and the social standard of society who born and live Who plaged themselves.

@LockCard

1y↑633

You don't need to teach a person how to lie.

@user-fp3bi6by6n

1y↑212

Read the bible

@user-fp3bi6by6n

1y↑151

Everyone is born as a sinner but baptism makes them neutral and later on with life they commit sins

@earth8366

1y↑220

@h op is right

@LockCard

1y↑312

@@user-fp3bi6by6n who.... asked.

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@Piromysl359

17w

This all makes sense.
Even if we do a good thing, it is still rooted in desire of self gratification, so in fact there is no such thing as a pure altruism.

@xandor5747

29w↑1

@bloodkarnival

30w↑1

The moment someone said anything about bringing a gun to class should have been the end of the experiment, the teacher knew what he was doing. Whatever point he wanted to make by doing the experiment in the first place was undeniably made up until that point. The old man was drunk on the power he had on the students

@gomezfriesen

33w↑1

In our species, thinking independently and seeking truth are secondary to conforming to and fitting into our tribe. This includes committing evil. Therefore, we are not born evil. Rather we are born to conform.

@Dokusha_

16w↑1

everyone looks for that meaning in life, to be part of something and the bigger the better, its not that we are evil but if we do not have a porpouse or life seems dark, when someone offers you a help or to give meaning to you, then you might follow them without much thinking, further more to people who you are an authority to

@johnrafferty4364

48w↑2.3K

I don't think everyone is born evil we just have the capacity to be evil I think it's all external factors but this was fascinating

@kylethewolf

42w↑41

everyone can fall into evil, that's a fact. But you can think about yourself whatever you want, lmao

@ozonethelegend9603

42w↑58

@@metgrindr1755and others can think of you as they want

@ale-hl8pg

42w↑98

@@metgrindr1755I really hate to ask this but are you sure you read what the person wrote? It doesn't imply that people can't be evil?

@DanielAiello-sv1bm

42w↑6

If someone is evil,can they become good again?

@__-tp4tm

42w↑43

Nature, a thing we glorify yet refuse to accept in it's full spectrum.
To nature, there is no good or evil. If you survive and pass your genes on, you're succesful - no matter if you happened to have a positive, social life or found yourself stealing, killing and taking advantage.

We see such as bad, while nature probably rolls metaphoric eyes and waits to see what happens.

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@rallers3002

33w

We are actually one of the most empathic creatures.

@remainprofane7732

14w

The cap gun student was a serious baller.

@JesuisParte

28w↑1

There is the german movie ''The Wave'' about that exact same experiment. You should watch it. It's pretty good.

@neuronensuppe6612

15w

Science has already shown that people are inherently cooperative from the beginning of live. Children will unquestionably try to assist anyone who they see struggling around age of 2. everything that comes afterwards is learned.

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