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How Governments Weaponize Obedience (Despite Blowback)

They know Milgram — and refine it.
  • Strategy - Short-Term Win - Long-Term Cost
  • Gradualism - “15 days” → years - Protests
  • Emergency framing - Compliance - Trust collapse
  • Diffusion - “Just following orders” - No accountability
They are not dumb. Nor are they bad people. They do it because it works. 

It's justified by the ends in the short term. Ultimately the system will be worse off.

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