Stanford Prison Experiment

I just finished watching the Stanford Prison Experiment documentary for the second time to get something to write about as well as to have something to talk about if need be. I had been assigned to view it before my next Sociology class. A lot of coincidences and connections when attending several classes in school that I find interesting most of the time. Anyways I digress; I will write about another excerpt from the documentary that isn't coincidentally relevant in our class thus far. I remember our Professor saying, 'everybody else is worse'. Correct me if I'm wrong when I quote one of the storytellers for having expanded on what our Professor said, to show how it might be true.

Excerpt: Two-thirds of volunteers were prepared to administer a potentially fatal electric shock when encouraged to do so, by what they perceived as a legitimate authority figure. In this case a man in a white coat." "Milgram's finding horrified America, they showed that decent American citizens were as capable of committing acts against their conscience as the Germans had been under the Nazis.

Prior text for prepratory gathering. I'll write about this; "All of us had gradually acclimated to increasing level of aggression, increasing powerlessness of the prisoners, increasing dominance of the guards. When I heard this midway through the documentary I noted it for its importance to the film. It made me think of this; It's like landing a plane that's meant to fall to its crash. Thoughts can be appreciated when it's expressivey assisting the structuring of a point. To be able to understand the importance of when a scene should be placed in any piece of work, you must have experience. Maybe if that scene had been placed at any other moment in the documentary, I wouldn't have thought of that line which I will use for a rhyme or poem. I'm sure a lot of peope including film buffs and personel have thought this way. This of course may or may not be a coincidence. Great minds they do say think alike. If everybody can be worse can everybody else be great?