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And the word courage should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the

infantile sanctuary of the mass mind. In the privacy of our minds, many of us disagree with the

ideologies, political agendas, and government mandates of our day. Yet in public, we comply.

We do what we are told, say what is politically correct, and to justify our hypocrisy by

telling ourselves that we are powerless to change society, and so we might as well blend

in with the crowd.

In this video, we explain why publicly conforming to what we privately disagree with makes

us complicit in tyranny, and why each of us has

far more power to influence society than we have been led to believe.

In the 1950s, the social psychologist Solomon Ash conducted an experiment which demonstrated

the degree to which individuals will reject what they think

is true in order to conform to the majority. In the experiment, Ash showed a test subject two

cards. On the first card was a single line, and on the second card were three lines, A, B,

and C, with only line C being the same length as the line on the first

card.

Ash instructed the test subject to state which line on the second card was the same length

as the line on the first card.

However, before the test subject gave an answer, they witnessed seven Confederates, or individuals

who were in on the experiment, state that

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