Montage

When night fell, the "devil" in people's hearts often became more active than during the day. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, guards were often more brutal toward prisoners at night, using all kinds of filthy methods to torment them because they believed no one would be watching their actions in the middle of the night.

In fact, the converted "prison" was covered in cameras. Every word and action of theirs was recorded.

People needed time to adapt psychologically. If a potential customer entered a store, the salesperson would not immediately begin a sales pitch. Instead, they would let the customer try the product first. Once the customer felt that it really worked well for them, they would be tempted to buy it.

If Zimbardo's fiancée had not come to visit, then the abusers, the abused, and even the professor running the experiment would all have become so deeply immersed in their roles that they could not pull themselves free.

An engineer with a college education earned less per month than a gondolier, but his comprehension might have been stronger than that of most boatmen.

At the very least, he knew what relativity and the Dirac Sea were.

There was neither divinity nor devils in the Dirac Sea. Wherever there was matter, there was the Dirac Sea. The observable universe was like something floating on its surface.

This was similar to the consciousness and subconsciousness in Freud's iceberg theory. What was exposed was only one part: the conscious level, the behavior and coping methods visible to the outside world, like the universe we could observe. The overwhelming remainder was unconscious, the larger mass of the mountain surging beneath the water's surface—the long-suppressed and neglected "inner self." To a certain extent, this greater part determined human development and behavior, including war, fascism,