The significance of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment
Question from the Internet:
“What does the outcome of the Stanford Prison Experiment actually say about humanity? Was the outcome actually about our tendency to conform to expectations formed from environmentally/occupationally relevant stereotypes?”
The Stanford Prison Experiment showed us that in each seemingly normal, reasonable, kind, friendly person there exists a potential “concentration camp guard”, that in the “right conditions” we can all become brutal and destructive towards others.
This is an extremely important experiment which was understandably discontinued, and we still keep ignoring its findings, through other experiments and real life events show the same facts again and again.
And until we look into a brutally honest mirror, getting to know ourselves in safe, controlled conditions, in a closed, mutually supportive mutually complement environment, we will never recognize the root cause of Humanity’s problems, the reason for the helplessly recurring, vicious historic cycles and the perpetual problems, crisis situations we keep going through individually and collectively.
There is no chance for healing, remedy without knowing the proper diagnosis. We won’t be able to solve the mounting global problems, we can’t safeguard our collective Human survival until we reveal and accept that we are all driven by the same, inherently self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic, subjective and exploitative nature that believes like cancer.
It is our unique generation - at unprecedented crossroads - that has to confront this true self-recognition on the brink of a very realistic, present, imminent danger of global self-destruction!