AKA 0 Volt Rebellion Glossary
1. Milgram's Experiment - Voltage & Core Mechanics
First harmless step — “It’s just a form / vote / email.”
Signing up for a loyalty card — first data point.
First scream — “This is wrong.”
Nurse sees patient harmed by policy but files report anyway.
Maximum shock — “I had no choice.”
Police tear-gas peaceful protesters: “Just following orders.”
four sequential prods
“Please continue… You have no choice.”
Boss: “Required… team needs you… no option.”
The “This is wrong!” you can’t ignore.
Rotherham victim on TV: “Police knew and did nothing.”
Learner’s responses
Grunt (75 V) → scream (150 V) → silence (330 V).
Grooming victim ignored → reported → forgotten.
2. Mind Traps & Self-Deception
autonomous moral agent
The you before the prod — decides right/wrong.
Parent refuses school vaccine mandate.
instrument of authority
You in agentic state — the hand, not the brain.
Soldier fires on command — no thought.
Instrumental self
Tool mode — “Just doing my job.”
HR enforces DEI training — no personal belief.
“I know it’s wrong — but I’ll keep doing it.”
Meat-eater who loves dogs but eats pigs — “It’s different.”
“I know it’s wrong — but that’s over there.”
MP votes for war but never visits families.
The Feedback Loop entrenches dissonance
Obey → justify → obey more.
Voter defends party despite lies.
“They forced me / I was tricked / Not my fault.”
Voter after Brexit: “I was lied to.”
Moral disengagement
Turn off conscience — justify harm.
Drone pilot kills from office: “Just a screen.”
3. Psychological Locks
Glue: politeness, escalation, denial, fear.
Employee stays late: “Don’t look bad / already started / policy / job risk.”
Status Incentives
Climb = obey.
Politician flips on inquiry for votes.
Status-Seeking + Conformity Bias
Fit in to climb.
Journalist parrots line — gets column.
Moral Licensing + Virtue Laundering
Good deed = free pass for bad.
Celebrity donates £1k, then jets private.
virtue laundering
Bad act = good intent.
Censor “for safety” — feels noble.
4. System Strategies
Frog in boiling water — slow prods.
Speech laws: hate speech → misgendering → thought crime.
Gradualism Is Policy
Patriot Act starts with terrorists — ends with all citizens.
“Not my job.” — blame the chain.
Social worker ignores abuse: “That’s police.”
End which justifies the means
“Good goal = any method.”
Lockdown saves lives — ignore mental health collapse.
Incentives Trump Ideology
Money/status > beliefs.
Politician flips on grooming inquiry for votes.
short-term calculus of power
Now > later — ignore blowback.
Lockdown saves curve — ignores suicides.
temporal discounting
Future pain < present gain.
Politician passes law — blowback in 10 years.
5. Control Tools
Control information
Hide the scream — keep people in the dark.
BBC edits out grooming gang ethnicity.
disinformation, misinformation
Labels to justify censorship.
Fact-checker tags grooming exposé as “hate speech.”
Propaganda
Repeat the lie — becomes truth.
“Safe and effective” — despite side effects.
Ministry of Truth
Fact-check arm — controls narrative.
BBC Verify labels dissent “disinfo.”
6. Tribal & Social Dynamics
Tribal epistemology
My tribe’s truth > facts.
BBC vs. X on grooming — both biased.
Tribal Backlash
Smear for wrong team.
Left calls Robinson “fascist.”
Tribal Social Structure and Its Hierarchy
Ladder inside the tribe.
Woke points — climb by signaling.
Epistemic Tribalism + Motivated Reasoning
“My team’s facts = truth.”
Left trusts BBC; right trusts X — both ignore grooming.
7. Rebellion & Exit
Two peers rebel — obedience drops to 10 %.
Pub mates both say “Screw the cover-up — email MPs.”
Two mates say “no” — obedience collapses.
Two bosses argue — 0 % obey (Experiment 10).
Starmer: “trust inquiry”; Musk: “cover-up” — no one obeys either.
Two authorities contradict — obedience drops to 0 %.
Starmer vs. Musk on grooming — pub mates argue, no obedience.
System crashes from overload when too many refuse.
HMRC backlog from 1M paper tax returns.
flash mobs and targeted disruptions
Unpredictable “no” — hard to police.
XR glues to trains — system can’t predict.
Passing the Milgram test
Juror refuses to convict for speech crime.
8. Institutions & Power
The lab where 65 % shocked a stranger to death because a man in a coat said “continue.”
Stanford Prison — students become guards in days.
obedience strategies
Lockdown: 15 days → 2 years.
Polite voice that warns but never unplugs.
Melanie Phillips writes Londonistan — then calls Robinson “thug.”
Michael Gove
Establishment enforcer — slurs rebels as “grifters” to police duality.
Calls Robinson a “grifter” on Sacerdoti’s podcast for Hopkins ties.
Institutional Bias
System protects itself — not truth.
BBC defends license fee despite bias claims.
O’Brien
Inner Party torturer — breaks your mind.
Tech censor bans dissent: “You’ll love Big Brother.”
Company as mini-state with prods.
Amazon tracks bathroom breaks — “Productivity requires it.”
HR’s 15 V induction — brainwash new hires into the agentic state from day one.
New hire signs NDA, attends DEI training, learns “We’re a family — but policy is policy.”
9. Cultural Domestication
1984 on the shelf — never opened again.
School kids quote “Big Brother” on TikTok.
“Big Brother,” “doublethink,” “Newspeak”
Bumper-sticker slogans that domesticate Orwell.
TikTok teens quote 1984 while self-censoring.
bumper-sticker slogans
Catchy phrases that replace deep thought.
“Defund the police” or “Build the wall” — end debate.
cordial jamborees
Big, polite rallies that stay in the lab.
Tommy Robinson’s UTK London march — loud, contained.
Rorschach test
Issue reveals your voltage.
Grooming gangs — defend or deflect?