Friday, June 10, 2011

Vs.

The murder of Jose Guerena, Department of Education SWAT raids, police confiscating cameras, the TSA preying on the weak...it's enough to make you think the world's gone mad. But it hasn't, not really.

It's actually become the Stanford Prison Experiment, writ large.

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17 comments:

  1. AlanJune 10, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Damn, that explains a lot.

    Of course you know that experiment always ends in disaster. :(

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  2. JoannaJune 10, 2011 at 4:44 PM

    Brrrrrrrrr.

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  3. JennyJune 10, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    ayup.

    Wielding power is cool.

    :(

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  4. AnonymousJune 10, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    It really does explain a lot.

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  5. RobertSlaughterJune 10, 2011 at 5:06 PM

    Ms. Breda, that is a frackingly brilliant insight. Thank you.

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  6. Guffaw in AZJune 10, 2011 at 6:42 PM

    true genius!

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  7. Robert McDonaldJune 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM

    Yeah, the pretty much sums the whole thing up. Kevin is going to be pissed you did it in such a short post!

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  8. Old NFOJune 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    Good post... truly a disaster!!!

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  9. ChrisJune 10, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    Well, yes. Power corrupts. So, since there is virtually no feedback mechanism to punish those who abuse such power in cases such as those mentioned, tht abuse will not only continue, but increase. Oh, joy. Now I'll sleep well. (Not.)

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  10. Michael HawkinsJune 11, 2011 at 7:43 AM

    Yeah that pretty much sums it up. This guy's got some lovely video's on the subject.

    Pretty well documented as far s conspiracists go.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptFR71tk9ss

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  11. Bubblehead Les.June 11, 2011 at 2:10 PM

    Throw in what happened to poor Murdered Kitty Genovese in NYC in the early 60's, where it was discovered that the more witnesses to a crime, the less responsibility to stop it occurs, and that seems to sum up America in the 21st. Century.

    Unless you hate being a Sheep, and you hate Wolves....

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  12. EarlJune 11, 2011 at 3:55 PM

    I found my time in a prison interesting because the experts in that Experiment were the inmates, they were sure they couldn't be wrong about the system. I also know that those participants were college level, almost adults, pretending to be someone else.

    Criminals aren't shaped by the society - they are part of it. There are many fine policemen and women that don't think the whole world is out to get them. Could be the media hype becomes a truth. Still I did look hard at Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas and recent stupidity on the part of THOSE in CHARGE makes me pray harder.

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  13. mike's spotJune 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM

    Zimbardo reference ftw.

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  14. NotClauswitzJune 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM

    You can always tell a Stanford man, you just can't tell 'em much - as evidenced by consistently and provably wrong butterfly-chaser Paul Ehrlich continuing to receive accolades as an environmental savant...

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  15. That GuyJune 13, 2011 at 3:25 PM

    Pretty much the only thing I can do is agree... and be frightened as hell.

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  16. Peripatetic EngineerJune 13, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    Now go look up The Milgram Experiment! Then you will really get scared.

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  17. LaughingdogJune 14, 2011 at 3:04 PM

    Ah yes, the "evil starts at 15v" experiment. Here's a good talk on both experiments.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/eng//id/272

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