For some reason the link didn't link, but this one might do better:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7m4fqTLKU Classic footage of 'the way we were'. I wonder if they followed up the experiment and charted the behaviour of these soldiers over a longer period?
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > This is really an interesting film, because of what it > reveals about the mindset of the people who commissioned > it. It's a 1963 film of an experiment the British conducted > on its own troops, feeding them LSD and then sending them > into combat exercises and filming the results. > > The troops wind up laughing and becoming incapable of even > mock-killing other human beings, almost as if they realized > that such behavior was insane. The makers of the film are > concerned about this, because they consider war and the > killing of other people not only sane, but admirable. > > Clearly, the people they should have fed the acid to was > not the troops who fight the wars, but the politicians who > start them. > > Link to the article: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02/soldiers-on-acid-1963-bri_n_377579.html > > Direct link to the YouTube clip: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptc5RHbJRvs= >
