In fact, I think the real horror of this experiment is that this prison insinuates the whole society. When people cannot integrate into a common value system, they will be excluded; if their thoughts are gradually unified, people will become numb, but they will be rewarded. One of the scarier things about society than prison is:
1. People in society do not have such a clear understanding of their identity as people in the movie
2. One of the features of society different from prison is that it is very comfortable, too comfortable To resist, imagine that the prison is a 180-square-meter bed, and you can eat and drink without worry. Will you give up your original identity and admit that you are a criminal? So I think the general environment of the whole society is like boiling a frog in warm water.
When I was a child, I read an article that a hunter caught a young eagle and put it in a chicken coop to raise it together. The eagle dragged its wings like a chicken and pecked on the ground. It also believes itself to be a chicken. It wasn't until one day that it was thrown off a cliff, and the desire to flap its wings made it clear that it was an eagle.
I hope that I will follow my heart to discover what I want to do, and be brave to get rid of those fetters. Rather than being bound by an invisible force in society.
I am an eagle, always have been, to be brave to get rid of it, to rush off the cliff to flap its wings.
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