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How far is an ordinary person from killing?
Tell you – 72 minutes.
This is not alarmist, but from a recent Netflix new reality show -
Darren Brown: Push ★★★★ ☆
Highlights: A psychological experimental reality show that interprets human subordination and social responsibility from a psychological perspective.
Duration: 70 minutes
The god behind this reality show is a psychological magician: Darren Brown.
Does it feel a little familiar?
At the beginning of the first episode of the third season of the British drama "Sherlock", Darren Brown made a cameo appearance of himself, covering Watson's face with a big hand and hypnotizing him.
Playing his own buddha in a tv series that has spread all over the world is enough to imagine what a great existence he is.
The man's psychic magic is so magical that he once "persuaded" 3 rich, high-status, law-abiding British citizens with no criminal record to participate in a street robbery through hypnotic hints.
Speaking of his psychic magic, it can be said that one is more shocking than the other, and interested friends can search for it on their own.
Today, Uncle Le will focus on this show.
The program was about a psychological experiment.
In the face of authority, modern people seem to have become accustomed to uncompromising submission.
In extreme cases, an ordinary law-abiding person is likely to commit a crime because he is told how to do it.
Doesn't that sound possible?
wrong! This reality show tells you that anything is possible.
Let's say you're a coffee shop employee named Greg and suddenly get a call from a guy claiming to be a police officer.
There is a young woman pushing a stroller in the shop at the moment, and the police tell you that she is actually a child kidnapper, and the police need your help to push the stroller to a safe place.
The tone of the police is anxious, if it were you, would you do it?
Greg would, he obeyed the police's arrangement, and "rescued" the baby.
Greg was deceived.
The "policeman" on the other end of the phone is fake, and the woman pushing the stroller is also an actor.
Without knowing it, Greg obeyed the command to do this so-called "just" thing.
Think about it, if the next development continues, is it possible that Greg killed the "baby" without knowing it?
This clip, which is the beginning of Darren Brown: Push, may seem bizarre, but it's an extreme example of subservience.
Brown believes that unconditional submission to authority has become part of modern life.
Authority can come from an individual, a group of people, or an ideology.
It can be used to maintain public order, but it can also push people to commit terrible acts.
Through this experiment, Brown wants to study:
Does social subservience cause one person to push another living person to death?
To complete this experiment, he organized a team of special skills, with special effects masters, action directors, more than 70 actors, and carefully designed a scam.
First, the first step is to select the objects of the experiment.
Before the official experiment began, Brown also selected a more submissive person through another quiz - Chris.
Next, the program team designed a virtual charity project "Pusher" and held a dinner party at the same time, inviting Chris to come.
At this point, there were 72 minutes left before he killed.
Before the dinner, there was a problem with the restaurant's vegetarian diet, and the project director, played by actor Tom, asked him to put a vegetarian flag on the ham bun and pretend to be a vegetarian bread.
Chris quickly complied.
At this point, there were still 60 minutes left before he killed.
And that's just a little bit of a foreshadowing, and there's a lot more —
Tom hinted that the party was a great opportunity to expand his network.
At the same time, Chris was not informed that formal attire was required for this dinner.
When Chris arrived at the venue in civilian clothes, he found that the people around him were wearing formal clothes, and he quickly felt frustrated.
So Chris will have a kind of inferior psychological hint, when Tom made him a waiter, let him bring tea and water, carry bags and run errands, he gladly accepted.
Just like this, one link after another, Chris fell into the trap step by step.
First, at the instigation of Tom, he disguised himself as a vegetarian with ham buns, which was the first bad thing to do, and did not stop him when he saw others eating, and succeeded in becoming an accomplice.
Everything that follows is sure to be an eye-opener.
At the dinner party, one person suddenly fainted on the ground, and it was only Tom and Chris.
Tom tells Chris to hurry up and get the medicine, and when Chris returns, Tom tells him that the man is dead.
But in order for the dinner to proceed normally, the matter must be concealed.
Someone died unexpectedly, and it didn't matter to anyone, but Chris got deeper and deeper.
Chris assists Tom in hiding the "corpse".
During the dinner party, the crisis of "corpse" being found was constantly created, which made Chris highly concentrated.
Then the "corpse" reappeared on the roof.
At this point, Tom didn't need to say anything more, Chris himself panicked and began to become a mastermind.
Chris had been involved in hiding the corpse, and had also impersonated the man, and was about to die.
And all that was needed for Chris to push the man downstairs was over.
Thankfully, Chris finally stuck to his bottom line and didn't push anyone down.
But the same experiment, the program team did three more times.
In the end, they all made the same choice.
This experiment made us deeply aware of how terrible subservience is.
In many cases, when everyone around you is telling you what to do, you may not do it, but it is likely that you have taken it as right in your heart.
One person is not terrible, what is terrible is a group of people.
Let's say that the experiment that Brown did, from the beginning, was very realistic, allowing many people to record videos, making the "pusher" project extremely authentic and authoritative.
Then, when the body is exposed, a group of people are around to persuade you: push it down.
This happened to you, will you push?
No one can say for sure.
In short, it is still that sentence: never test human nature, human nature can not withstand the test.