However, it was such a random scene that led to the tragedy behind. The two-week prison ecological imitation experiment between guards and prisoners gradually unfolded after signing a seemingly guaranteed contract and setting up several vague rules.
At first, everyone was not used to the role change. In the first few hours of the first day, the "prisoners" were talking and laughing, thinking that they could easily survive the two-week experimental period and earn their due salary. . Then that night, after being humiliated and humiliated by the person playing the jailer in a sitcom that looked like a performance, the first person changed, and in less than 24 hours, from a free An innocent man becomes a guilty prisoner who thinks he has lost his freedom. What is the situation here? Has mass, coercive, violent brainwashing hints paralyzed a person's cognition?
In the following days, the "authoritative" guards who were given the deprivation of the prisoners' personal liberty, in order to restrain the prisoners and help them obey the rules, and through the collective interests attached to the collective activities, unilaterally imposed on the "prisoners" the moral bottom line. practice. Finally, on the second day, one of the prisoners couldn't take it anymore and went on strike to terminate the contract. A random prison revolution breaks out.
After the prison riot, the experimental subjects developed mental problems one by one, and the experiment should have been terminated immediately, but the decision makers of the observer group thought this was an excuse for the "prisoners" to cheat for parole. In order to ensure the continuation of the experiment, the observers, in talking with the prisoners one by one, subjectively assumed the hypocrisy of the experimental subjects' request to leave, and used their authority to unreasonably refute the real demands of others. It made them think that they had no hope of leaving this experimental prison, and the concept of the two-week deadline began to blur, and they would be permanently trapped there and become puppets who lost their freedom.
On the other hand, observers were also annoyed by the dereliction of duty by the "guards", who failed to educate the "prisoners" well and maintain the stability of the prison. Imperceptibly exerting psychological pressure on the prisoners, these subjects began to concentrate on the somewhat authoritative role of "jailers" in order to try to keep their "jobs", and intensified their treatment of the "prisoners" who remained, from verbal violence to injustice. Equal legal covenant system violence escalates to physical and emotional abuse. Determined to use force and force to create exclusion and division among prisoners, divide them one by one, and focus on suppression to solve existing problems. And all these means are carried out secretly, and there is no evidence of committing the crime in the surveillance video of the observer.
This is obviously just an experiment, and it is also a show. If everyone is fooled, and two weeks later, everyone will make money, why should they be so serious? But whether it is a "jailer" who temporarily has the right to control others, or a "prisoner" who is temporarily deprived of his personal rights, from the moment the hourglass of the experiment starts to turn upside down, they are no longer themselves, they are assuming the created environment In, conquered by the desires of the heart, infected by the fact that constantly reverberates under the evil deeds. They have no ability to resist sin, and they forget their names and identities. The innocence gradually recognizes as guilty, and the powerless gradually quiets down in the joy of power. Free hearts, bound, happy spirits, eclipsed.
Why is this?
On the sixth day of the experiment, two "prisoners" were forced to leave due to serious psychological and mental injuries. The observer group, too, was torn apart by disagreements. The founders of the unique experiment have repeatedly insisted on continuing. Originally, the guards supervise the prisoners, and the observers supervise the guards, but who supervises the observers? The system is perfect, what about people? Is it also complete?
On the seventh day of the experiment, a very vicious incident occurred in the prison, which really stimulated the conscience of the experiment initiator. He realized the seriousness of the problem and closed the experiment. The experiment failed in the end, and the price was painful. No one received the money, but so everyone realized the sinful human nature. That no one can escape from the bondage. Just like a thorn seed that falls into the soil it is adapted to, it will unconsciously grow into a weed that spreads everywhere.
The system, the rules, can be perfect, but if the executor is still under the control of sin in his heart, he will not be saved. So with such a seemingly whole-system organization, group, community and even country, it is bound to enter the snare created by the Lucifer effect. become hell on earth.
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