One Has To Wonder Why The General Populace Is So Meek and Submissive. The Tyranny of Obeyance

Knight Writer
2 min readSep 18, 2023
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People Are Sheeple

Many of us disagree with today’s ideas, political objectives, and government dictates in private, yet we cooperate in public. We do what we are told, say what is politically right, and rationalize our duplicity by convincing ourselves that we have no capacity to change society, so we might as well fit in, right?

In the video, we explain why outwardly submitting to what we privately disagree with makes us complicit in tyranny, and why each of us has far more ability to affect society than we have been told to believe.

In the 1950s, social scientist Solomon Asch conducted an experiment that illustrated the extent to which people will reject what they believe to be true in order to conform to the majority. Asch displayed two cards to a test subject during the trial.

The first card had a single line, and the second card had three lines, A, B, and C, with only line C being the same length as the line on the first card. Asch…

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