Thank you, Oliver, for your wisdom and recommendations. Many years ago I watched a documentary on the 1971 Stanford prison experiment. It was very disturbing to see how the student "prison guards" became increasingly sadistic and drunk with their power over fellow student "prisoners."
I've been horrified by this human weakness for sadistic scapegoating since a 7th grade English teacher showed our class films made by the U.S. military when they liberated German concentration camps at the end of WWII (anyone can find them now on YouTube).
In today's America I doubt any teacher would be allowed to show those films, but for me it was an unforgettable illuminating exposure to what atrocities "group think" can produce when people are ignorant of their own vulnerability to becoming truly evil. I have great respect for the way the German govt. has handled the aftermath of Hitler's Third Reich.
Thank you, Oliver, for your wisdom and recommendations. Many years ago I watched a documentary on the 1971 Stanford prison experiment. It was very disturbing to see how the student "prison guards" became increasingly sadistic and drunk with their power over fellow student "prisoners."
I've been horrified by this human weakness for sadistic scapegoating since a 7th grade English teacher showed our class films made by the U.S. military when they liberated German concentration camps at the end of WWII (anyone can find them now on YouTube).
In today's America I doubt any teacher would be allowed to show those films, but for me it was an unforgettable illuminating exposure to what atrocities "group think" can produce when people are ignorant of their own vulnerability to becoming truly evil. I have great respect for the way the German govt. has handled the aftermath of Hitler's Third Reich.