Are we better evolved than monkeys?

Lola 2022-12-24 17:11:57

After listening to the Stanford Prison Experiment for a long time, I finally watched the movie today.
As soon as Brody's male protagonist Travis came out, he gave people a feeling of the rebirth of Christ. Later, in the interview before the experiment, he expressed the view that it is not war but tolerance that resolves conflicts. The experiment began to quickly become a The leader of the prisoners, in order to protect the inmates from suffering, eventually launched a rebellion, which is a bit like a god-building movement; the other Barris, who has been repressed for many years in his life, is still under the discipline of his mother all the year round. After becoming a prison guard, he accidentally discovered that violence can turn him on. , the desire for totalitarianism stimulated him to slowly reveal his hidden brutal nature. The question also goes back to the old topic of human nature being good and evil. Under high pressure, what is inspired by human nature is cowardly obedience or stubborn resistance. When violence will not receive any blame and punishment, people will hold the last bottom line of conscience. Or become a domineering dictator?
At the end, the social man asked the male protagonist, do you still think we have evolved better than apes, and the male protagonist replied, yes, at least we have learned to resist. Yes, we are more advanced and advanced than our ancestors before civilization, better than monkeys, not only because we have philosophy, science, art, literature, but also because our society has law and order, that is all The bottom line that people must abide by.

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Extended Reading

The Experiment quotes

  • [first lines]

    Travis: [playing shuffleboard] You suck, don't you?

    Gertrude: You suck.

    Travis: Yeah, I suck so bad I just skunked you. Which means, you gotta eat your pills.

    Gertrude: You're supposed to be nice to me.

    Travis: I am nice to you. It's not my fault you got no game.

    Gertrude: You suck, Travis.

    Travis: I know.

  • Barris: We are strangers in a strange time.