#44: How to Make a Bad Apple - Milgram's Shock, Robbers Cave, and Arendt's "Banality of Evil"

Once WWII ended, the "Western World" got to work figuring out what had happened. But (as usual), we had no interest taking any blame or self reflecting on our own systems of power. Researchers who understood how much we hate to point the finger at ourselves designed study after study meant to reveal the thing or things which caused otherwise good people to do horrible things. In this episode I will talk about two of those studies: The Robbers Cave Experiment (1954) and the Milgram Shock Experiment (1963). The results can tell us a lot about systems of hierarchical power, but they can tell us even more about our cultural habit of chronic wokeness. Support the show