Funny, I always thought that the Stanford Prison Study was apocryphal. After watching these videos, it’s pretty clear that it’s not only real, but more vivid and difficult than any of the descriptions I’d heard. I suppose it doesn’t really come as a surprise to a crypto-misanthrope like myself; but that doesn’t make it any easier to watch. I’m reminded of the feelings I had during Katrina, and which persist: that our entire society and day to day reality is 5 days away from Mad Max.

UPDATE:  Unfortunately this video seems to have been nuked as a copyvio.  I’ll have to see if I can find another.  Shame…it was really good.

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Makes me think of Jake. Can’t wait to show it to him…it’ll take us months to digest all of these enormous things!

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I find myself often in a situation where I’ve enjoyed the services of one musical group or another, and I’d like to compensate them.  The trick is that I can’t seem to find good ways to do so without giving a large fraction of the money to someone else: a record label, music store…

I always thought that it would be a good idea for bands to put up a paypal account on their websites through which they could accept donations.  That way I’d be able to kick in when I felt the urge without feeling like I was lining the pockets of them that don’t deserve it.

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