[Don Joe]

All this shows is that people can intellectually admit something, yet still go through with the opposite because even though they know it’s wrong, they still do the wrong thing.

Cognitive dissonance on a cultural level, tantamount to the wholesale hypnosis of an entire society.

The implications are terrifying

[Secret Agent Man]

Yes, you are right. The whole ‘electric shock’ experiment is becoming reality. On some level you can see how the gruesome, hyper-realistic video games of today contribute to this.