Why Good People Turn Evil: The Stanford Prison Experiment | History Secret Wars

Описание: Welcome back to History Secret Wars — where we tear down the official statues of history to examine the blood-soaked soil beneath them. We’re not here for the sanitized myths of “scientific progress” or the polite fairy tales about human nature. We’re here for the mechanics of the mind — the levers pulled in the shadows, and the wars fought not on battlefields… but inside the human soul.

Tonight, we enter a modern dungeon: the Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) — the six days that reshaped how the world talks about good, evil, obedience, and power.

You’ve heard the headline: Put good people in a bad place, and they turn into monsters.
But what if the monsters didn’t “appear”… what if they were engineered?
What if the guards were coached? What if the breakdowns were performed? And what if the man running the study wasn’t a neutral observer — but an active director inside the story?

In this dossier, we investigate

The real arrests that blurred the line between roleplay and reality

The dehumanization pipeline: numbers, chains, humiliation, sleep deprivation

The Day 2 rebellion — and how “control” escalated into psychological warfare

The “John Wayne” guard persona and the social contagion of cruelty

Prisoner 8612 and the moment the study crossed into crisis

The staged Visiting Day and how perception management kept the machine running

Christina Maslach — the outsider who broke the spell and ended the experiment

Why critics argue the study became a manufactured narrative: demand characteristics, instruction, and incentives

The controversial legacy: how Stanford’s imagery echoes in real-world prisons and later scandals like Abu Ghraib

This is historical analysis and commentary — a forensic walk through power, compliance, and how systems can turn ordinary people into tools.

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