Lucid Nightmare — Psychology

In 1967 Psychologists Electrocuted Lots of Dogs in a Box

What they discovered has profound implications for meme culture and the creeping anxiety that is spreading across society.

We’ll get to the electrocuted dogs in a bit. Let’s just take a step back and look at where society is. Context is important. The arrival of the internet jump started the digital age. It changed the world for the better and for the worse in a myriad of ways. It is now throwing human psychology and how we think and interact into new territory.

We have become interconnected in a way that was unfathomable a generation ago. The newest generation of children, the so called i-Gen will grow up as part of an interconnected hive mind. Their world shaped equally by humans and algorithms.

We now exist in an open source world. One in which we create the rules as we go along. A world in which the norms are ever shifting. A decade ago, it wasn’t normal for society to be so polarised. Today widespread intolerance from the both the left and the right is the status quo.

But this isn’t a generic article about the perils and pitfalls of the internet. We can discuss those ad-infinitum. This is an article about dogs…