I was laid up with the flu before Christmas, and managed to burn through a bunch of stuff on Netflix. I queued this up, due to the recent stuff about Manning (note, this is not a Manning thread, we have one for that already) and found parts of it pretty horrific:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/4819/Overview
There's a part that especially caught my notice. They are interviewing the warden, who is a late 50ish frumpy women (this isn't sexist, it's important to a point I'm going to make) and they are talking about the "quality of life index" that the inmates have at the facility. It's 1-6, with a 6 being the most privileges, and a 1 being the least. When the break the rules, they go down on the scale. Then, she says the following (paraphrased, not verbatim):
"Could you or I, placed in this facility, follow all the rules? Probably not, but when we find infractions, we punish them."
That's the person in charge, admitting that the game is rigged, not only for the ~20-30% of the inmates with diagnosed mental illness, but for the rest as well, who by their very presence have trouble with rules to one extent or the other. BUT-she admits it would also be rigged for a "normal" law-abiding person in the same environment.
That women doesn't look evil. It's not tattooed on her forehead. She's not wearing a black leather overcoat with a swastika band on her arm. She is, however, a perfect example of the banality of evil.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/4819/Overview
There's a part that especially caught my notice. They are interviewing the warden, who is a late 50ish frumpy women (this isn't sexist, it's important to a point I'm going to make) and they are talking about the "quality of life index" that the inmates have at the facility. It's 1-6, with a 6 being the most privileges, and a 1 being the least. When the break the rules, they go down on the scale. Then, she says the following (paraphrased, not verbatim):
"Could you or I, placed in this facility, follow all the rules? Probably not, but when we find infractions, we punish them."
That's the person in charge, admitting that the game is rigged, not only for the ~20-30% of the inmates with diagnosed mental illness, but for the rest as well, who by their very presence have trouble with rules to one extent or the other. BUT-she admits it would also be rigged for a "normal" law-abiding person in the same environment.
That women doesn't look evil. It's not tattooed on her forehead. She's not wearing a black leather overcoat with a swastika band on her arm. She is, however, a perfect example of the banality of evil.
