Tag Archives: Stanley Milgram

the whippersnappers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dave

Is life a theater piece almost entirely concerned with transformation and fragile illusion. Certainly, the News Corp scandal has explored those fugitive relationships between the criminal, the downright irritating and the tawdry sensationalism of seeing the oppressor squirm, metaphorically with … Continue reading →

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totem and taboo: the mythology of conformity

Posted on May 15, 2011 by tai

A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax (Parallax: Exploring the Architecture of Human Perception) Tai Carmen: The story goes like a joke: five monkeys and a banana. Or a parable: under the banana there was a ladder, and every … Continue reading →

Posted in Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged alan watts, asch conformity experiment, g.r. stephenson, jill greenberg, patricia ariel, roger bannister, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Milgram, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, texas longhorn totemism, texas longhorns, totemism | 2 Comments

PLEDGING FAITH AS COLLATERAL: Sloth & the Imp

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Dave

“This new millennium already marked by killings is merely a sign of what Conrad called our miserable ingenuity. How we love to create Devils and Gods and bloody rivers of ways to get their almighty attention. What we turn away … Continue reading →

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ENTERTAINMENT VALUE: HIGH IQ LOW IQ & FUKQ

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dave

Sometimes, unlike Banks, ideas are too small to fail and too big to succeed. Religiously, law makers have practiced anti-eugenics in keeping the big banks and global economy in a recurring coma, various unspecified ”upper body injuries” of the financial … Continue reading →

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Awarded An Irony Cross by The Girl Next Door

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Dave

I’m Not O.K, You’re Not O.K. The most severe scenario outlined in the Thomas Harris book, I’m O.K. You’re O.K. in the late 1960′s,released in the controversial wake of the Stanley Milgram and Zimbardo experiments.It is Transactional Analysis and a … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Art, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Cosmoetica, Dan Schneider, Henry Miller, I'm O.K You, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, re O.K., Rimbaud, Stanley Milgram, Steve Erickson, Thomas harris, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Wilder Penfield, Zimbardo | Leave a comment

Paris Trout Fishing with Stanley Milgram

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Dave

“Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered … Continue reading →