New Reality TV Show Shows People Will Kill Others When Told To

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New Reality TV

Show Shows People Will Kill Others When Told To

Would you kill for fifteen minutes of fame? How sure are

you of your answer? A new French show makes a shocking and thought-provoking

discovery that may make you reassess your own values, and question who you

listen to and why.

 

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New Reality TV Show Shows

People Will Kill Others When Told To

Posted by Dr. Mercola | April 10 2010 | 1,381 views

 

Zone

Xtrême is a reality TV show in which the contestants, when they get answers

wrong, are hit with an electric shock. The shocks get more and more powerful as

the contestants scream with pain until, on occasion, they appear to have died.

But there's a twist: in fact, Zone

Xtrême is a set-up, and it's the people administering the shocks that are being

tested -- the " contestants " are actors, the audience is fake, and the

entire series isn't reality TV but a documentary.

It is, in essence, a repeat of the famous

experiments by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, who, in the wake of

horrifying revelations about Nazi Germany, was studying people's obedience to

authority.

French commentators see in the

documentary (called Le Jeu de la Mort, or " the game of death " ) a

terrible revelation about the effect of reality TV on society -- has

reality TV come to the point where it can convince people to kill?

I’ve previously written about the

dangers TV pose to the young minds growing up in society today, and if this

faux show-documentary is any indication, it seems most people are in dire need

of redirecting their attention to healthier pursuits.

Research has shown that watching TV

has a major

impact on your brain chemistry. The longer you watch the TV screen, the easier

your brain slips into a receptive, passive mode, meaning that messages are

streamed into your brain without any participation from you.

This is an advertiser’s dream,

and could be used for more nefarious purposes as well – creating and

maintaining passive, dumbed-down citizens, who, as this show illustrates, may

be capable of little more than following orders, no matter where they come

from.

It’s a great reminder to THINK

about what you and your children are watching, and how much…

Sources:

The Atlantic Wire

March 18, 2010