The Stanford Prison Experiment Page #10

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- Like me

Yeah. Oh, whoa.

This one's gonna be bitching

if you're bucking this one.

Oh, yeah, she bucking back

on your dick; that's good.

I once was lost

But now I'm found

Bend down,

or I'll f*** you myself.

Bend down.

Don't cum yet.

- Was blind

- Don't cum.

- But now

- Right, there it is.

You gonna cum.

- Right, get right back...

- I see

That feel nice, 2093?

All right, faggots, stop!

Y'all are disgusting.

Get back in line.

Line up.

Come on, get back in line.

Come on. Get in there.

Now I want all y'all to come up

to 416 and thank him.

Thank you, 416, for singing

such a pretty song to us.

Thank you, 416.

Oh, I think

you can do better than that.

- Thank you, 416!

- There you go.

Thank you, 416.

Oh, I think you can

say it louder than that.

Thank you, 416!

Yeah, say it

like you mean it now.

Thank you, 416.

From the bottom

of your heart now.

- Thank you, 416.

- Oh, yeah.

Thank you, 416!

Thank you, 416.

Thank you, 416.

Thank you, 416.

- Hey.

- Thank you, 416.

Thank you, 416.

Hey.

Thank you, 416.

Hey!

This experiment is...

Over.

Did you hear what I said?

This exper...

This experiment

is terminated

from this point on.

You...

The Stanford County Jail

is now closed.

You're all free to leave.

So does this mean

we're not getting paid

for the full two weeks?

I said to myself at

the beginning of the first day,

"This could be a very long,

very boring experiment. "

Uh, it wasn't conceivable.

There was just no strong sense

of precedent

for how far this thing could go.

It's easy for you to say,

"Oh, I wouldn't have

acted that way. "

But you don't know.

That's... that's the truth.

You don't know.

And now,

I know what I'm capable of,

and it hurts.

That...

I don't know... I don't know

how else to say it,

but it does hurt me

to know that.

You know, and I knew right away

it was wrong,

and I was the only one

that could see it.

You know, anyone could see it

except for these guys.

You know, you give them

the uniform

with the glasses

and the nightstick,

and they simply

can't be the same person

as if they wore street clothes.

Meanwhile, I'm just

a number in a dress.

That's the thing; I wasn't

a prisoner in an experiment.

I was their prisoner.

I really felt that

I was losing my identity,

that this person

that I call Tom

was disappearing.

And it was a prison to me.

It still is a prison to me.

You know, I don't look at it

as an experiment

or a simulation at all.

It was a prison

that was run by psychologists

instead of by the state.

The consensus

is that they did suffer.

But...

I think that

they also learned a great deal

about themselves

and about human nature.

And I think most of them

would say

that in hindsight it was

a very valuable experience.

This whole experience harms me,

and I mean "harms"

in the present tense.

- It harms me.

- How did it harm you?

Or how does it

harm you?

Is it just to think that

people can be like that?

Yeah.

And I know

you're a nice guy.

You know?

Well, you don't know that.

No, I do.

I do know that

you're a nice guy.

Then why do you hate me?

Because I know what

you can turn into.

If you were in my position,

what would you have done?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I can't tell you that.

- I wasn't.

- Hmm.

I don't think I would

have been as, uh...

I don't believe

I would have been

as inventive as you.

I don't think I would have

applied as much imagination

to what I was doing.

You understand?

Yes.

I understand.

I would have been a guard.

I don't think it would have

been such a masterpiece.

Personally, I-I don't see

where it was really harmful.

It was degrading,

but that was part of

my particular

little experiment that...

Oh, your particular

little experiments?

- Well, why...

- Yeah. Yeah.

Why don't you tell us

about those?

Yes, I was running

experiments of my own.

Well, tell me about

these little experiments.

- I'm curious.

- Okay.

I wanted to see just

what kind of verbal abuse

people can take before

they start objecting,

before they start

lashing back.

And it really surprised...

It really surprised me that

nobody said anything to stop me.

Nobody said,

"Come on, man. You...

"You can't say

those things to me.

Those things are sick. "

Nobody said that.

And nobody questioned

my authority at all.

And it really shocked me.

I-I started to get...

I started to abuse

people so much.

I started to get so profane.

And still, people

didn't say anything.

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