Experimenter Quote

Stanley Milgram: There was a time, I suspect, when men and women could give a fully human response to any situation. When we could be fully absorbed in the world as human beings. But more often, now, people don't get to see the whole situation but only some small part of it. There's a division of labor, and people carry out small, narrow, specialized jobs, and we can't act without some kind of direction from on high. I call this the agentic state. The individual yields to authority, and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions.

Movie: Experimenter

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