"Madame Sèvres! Please tell us..."
Georgiana shut the carriage door, cutting off the shouting outside. If not for the police holding them back, the reporters would probably have swarmed around them long ago.
She wanted badly to draw the curtain over the carriage window. Though there were no cameras or single-lens reflex lenses comparable to telescopes yet, she still felt as if she were being watched, as though every move she made was under surveillance.
There was, in fact, a zoo at Versailles. At its center stood an octagonal pavilion. The first floor contained only one room, the King's salon. One side of the pavilion served as the entrance, while the other sides had large windows facing seven iron cages holding animals.
Bentham had never said whether his design drew inspiration from this. Though a panopticon could ensure prisoners' survival rates, it deprived them of privacy. For a training institution meant to persuade people to undergo Guihua, it might have been a perfect design: it could reduce the number of guards, limit contact between guards and prisoners, and curb corporal punishment and torture. Yet people living in such a power situation, isolated and watched, might develop other psychological problems.
There had once been an American psychologist who conducted a prisoner experiment. The participants were all students, assigned the roles of guards and prisoners. In only a few days, they had completely become different people.
To make the "prisoners" obey, the "guards" came up with all sorts of tricks. They were all university students, yet none of them realized that what they were doing violated the law.
Even the scholar who had designed the experiment nearly became engrossed in it himself. It was only when his fiancée discovered it that the experiment was stopped, preventing greater harm.
There was another experiment.