Suppose you go to a company to apply for a job, when you walk into the waiting room, there are already three people sitting in the chairs, and you go in and sit down. You waited for a while, a bell rang in the room, the three interviewers stood up at the same time, and soon another bell rang, and the three sat down at the same time, no one talked, and you didn't know what was going on , after a few repetitions, what will you do? Do you stand and sit with them, or do you continue to sit indifferently? This is a test of social subordination that the great magician Darren Brown selected participants for for his documentary THE PUSH. The first three interviewers were actually actors, and the interviewers who came in later did not receive any instructions in advance. If they saw the movements of the three and they would imitate them, they would be selected by Darren. Of course, in order for the selected people to unknowingly participate in the documentary, they were all told to be eliminated. THE PUSH shows how an ideologically sound man can be channeled into a murderer in 72 minutes. One of the people selected was Chris, a 29-year-old co-director of a printing and design company with a successful career and a gracious attitude who seemed unlikely to be associated with a murderer. Darren fabricated a charity project called PUSH, invited many famous actors to shoot short films for publicity, and then held a PUSH auction dinner to raise funds for the charity project. Chris was the director of the PUSH project and his business partner (by the actor Cosplay) invited to this dinner party in the name of expanding contacts. In order to make Chris feel inferior, the project director deliberately did not inform him that he would be dressed in formal attire for the dinner party, which would make him more submissive and easier to obey orders because he was the only one in a casual shirt. When everyone has a common standard, if you fail to meet the standard, you will be under invisible pressure, which will make you feel inferior, feel inferior, and be more easily controlled. This common standard is not only for dress code, may be fat and thin (more obvious in women), may be education, or marriage and family status. The first order came quickly, because the vegan food truck was out of order, and the program director asked Chris to split half the meat and put a vegan flag. It seemed like a small request, and Chris complied without much thought. Later, a big boss (played by an actor) who was about to donate 5 million pounds came to the dinner. The project director asked Chris if he could bring champagne and help the big boss to carry a bag, and Chris agreed. The big boss pretended to be angry and died of a sudden illness. Only Chris and the project director were around. The project director urged Chris to hide the body first and call the police after the dinner was over. After Chris and the project director hid the body, they were mistaken by other guests as the big boss. Under the constant lobbying of the project director, Chris was driven to the shelves and pretended to be the big boss to give a speech... The incident fermented step by step. , in just 72 minutes, will Chris finally give in and become a murderer? "THE In the "PUSH" documentary, plus Chris, there were four selected candidates, three of whom pushed people off the roof in the end, and only one said NO at the last minute. This documentary is an extreme example of people's social submissiveness. The great magician Darren carefully arranged the venue, actors and atmosphere to make the chosen one step into the trap step by step. For example, celebrity propaganda increases credibility, a formal and luxurious dinner environment, authority figures, and the noble purpose of charity dinners to raise funds for poor children, which can expand contacts and increase business development opportunities... In the real world, this carefully arranged scene, It often occurs in commercial marketing, fundraising fraud (such as Ezubao), pyramid selling (1040 project) and other activities. But in fact, life is full of examples of people's social submissiveness. When you wait for a red light, someone in front of you is running, and others will follow. "Girls can't get married when they're old", "Life without children is incomplete", "A boy can only pass on the lineage", "In order to please customers and bosses, a man must be able to drink wine or even accompany him to find a lady", similar The voices of the people are endless, and there are many people who do the same. People have the instinct to obey the group, no matter whether this thing violates their own values or not, as long as other people are doing it, then it is legitimate and reasonable. Even if what most people are doing is meaningless, as long as there are more people, the greater the pressure on the individual, the more likely the individual will succumb. And if an order or instruction is given by an authority, people are more likely to obey. Sometimes this blind obedience to authority will lead to tragedy in human history. In describing the Holocaust, a writer said that those who participated in the slaughter of Jews were not the heinous villains we imagined, but the ordinary people we are most familiar with, and maybe even the polite people living next door. The neighbors who will invite you to the house as a guest. Like Darren in THE PUSH: "Follow orders and do something because others say it's the right thing to do." "The experiment had participants do things that went against their morals, values, and personality, and the point was that we all We are vulnerable to this influence, whether it is a group of people or an ideology that influences us, as if we are completely at the mercy of others to decide how we should live, do things according to their ideas, and achieve their aspirations." It makes us feel safe, but does this submissiveness really make our lives better? There is a data that domestic undergraduate education covers about 4% of the population. Among this 4% of the population, no more than 10% of the people who still keep reading and thinking habits after graduation, that is, 0.4%, among these 0.4% of the population. , not only passive reading input, but also output practice, the same will not exceed 10%, which is 0.04%. When we receive certain information and opinions, we might as well think about this data first. We have been taught to be obedient since childhood. Obedience is a highly praised quality, but the possible dangerous consequence of this obedience is that we continue to hand over the power of thinking, judgment, and choice to the public and to the authority. The mark of a person's true maturity is to think independently, to make independent choices, and to have the courage to accept the consequences of the choices. We can be pushed, but we can also push back!
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