Dar Williams: Buzzer Meaning
Buzzer Lyrics
Four twenty nine for almost anything I want
Add it up it's cheaper than the stuff I make myself
I get by, I never needed anybody's help
And I tore out an ad and they told me that...
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It's about how we all are complicit in the suffering of others. In that lab experiment people believed they were literally hurting other people. In real life we buy cheap meals (platter number 8) that have a price that is well below the real cost of the labor and food. We push the buzzer and let others suffer when we do that. We buy clothing made in sweatshops by children. Zap. Buzzer. We look at the price of our stocks instead of the cost to humanity of our actions. In that, we push the buzzer.
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This was written in 2008 about the 1961 Milgram Experiment and a follow up Dar heard about that occurred in 2005. In 2005 the results of the experiment were practically the same as 40 years earlier, and she found that shocking. It got her thinking about what she would do in the same situation and she wrote this about a young woman who did the experiment and discovered how easy it had been to influence and control her actions.
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