We all like to think of ourselves as good and righteous citizens of the world. Of course, why would we think otherwise while considering ourselves as possessor of childlike innocence, at least once in our lifetime when our sagacity and integrity was untouched? It is the already thriving shadiness of this world, which stamps a dent into our fragile sense of morality or so we like to believe.
There was this movie named
The Experiment (a German made production), which I have seen some while ago. As the name suggests, the film was based on an experiment. In this experiment, volunteered male students were randomly allocated into two groups, one group playing the role of the wardens while others assimilating themselves into the character of prisoners. Then, the inconspicuous transformation of these role-players into real lifelike persona was quite shocking as if they had detach themselves from reality and veiled themselves into their own fabricated fantastical delusion. The severe violence and mortification that followed throughout the plot was appalling.
What made this more deplorable was the fact that this film was based on a
real psychological experiment conducted in 1971 by the Stanford University, an experiment that was forced to shut down after just six days when the subjects were found to be abhorrently immersed in their role-playing characters.
Surely, human mind is
naïve.
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.” Ernest Hemingway
We all like to think of ourselves as good and righteous citizens of the world. Of course, why would we think otherwise while considering ourselves as possessor of childlike innocence, at least once in our lifetime when our sagacity and integrity was untouched? It is the already thriving shadiness of this world, which stamps a dent into our fragile sense of morality or so we like to believe.
