Brain Blunders

Our memory is its own editor and director of photography and will create its own version of reality.

We are making conscious choices, but they aren’t the ideal choices we want to make—and that’s a lack of free will

there was a degree of separation and dehumanization that allowed actions to go further.

soldiers go through boot camp and are berated endlessly by drill instructors—it is a process designed to promote obedience and conformity, even in the worst conditions that combat will present.

and the perception of a lack of accountability

Where this takes a deviation into subverting free will is where you go directly against what you know to be true just to conform

These two approaches represent the two main reasons people appeared to conform and act against their own free will.

We really just can’t help but subconsciously follow the people around us, whether we want to or not.