Why Good People Comply with Evil - Daniel Schmachtenberger

Key takeaways:

Every empire in history has collapsed, and people often underestimate the possibility of it happening to their own society.
The Ash Conformity studies and Milgram experiments demonstrate how people can be influenced by authority figures and group dynamics, which can lead to complicity in evil actions.
The world is currently facing major issues that require deep life reconsideration and foresightful action.
The destruction of the environment and the development of horrifying weapons are signs of a profoundly insane society.
The ability for people to coordinate and change the trajectory of the world is a more potent possibility for meaningful contribution than ever before.

People often underestimate the possibility of collapse because they lack an intuition or experience for it.
Every empire in the history of the world has collapsed.
Usually, before an empire collapses, the people at that time don't think it's going to happen, so they aren't doing any smart guidance or preparation.

The Ash Conformity studies and the Milgram experiments demonstrate the power of authority and group dynamics on people's behavior.
In the Milgram experiments, a humongous percentage of people continued to push a button, believing it was killing a person on the other side, because the authority told them to.
In the Ash Conformity studies, people often matched their answers to what the group said, even if it was obviously false.
This dynamic can be seen in the Nuremberg trials, where 90% of the Nazis said they didn't believe what they were doing was good, but they didn't try to stop it because they felt they didn't have a choice.

The timelines of the issues facing the world are such that people should realize there are much bigger issues than the things they're currently dealing with.
If people haven't already, they should go study the Ash Conformity studies and the Milgram experiments.
People should unplug from the current system and ask themselves if they're willing to be complicit with a profoundly insane society.

For the first time in history, there's a single global civilization, and all the products people depend on take six-continent supply chains to make.
The ability for people to coordinate and change the trajectory of the world is a more potent possibility for meaningful contribution than anyone has ever had in terms of scale.
A sane assessment is that the world's current trajectory is not the one people want, and they should direct their life and attention towards changing it.

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