Transcripts of the experiment, published in Zimbardo's book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, record in terrifying detail the way reality slipped away from the participants.
What we are witnessing, rather, is the raw, liberating and terrifying emergence of a distinctly modern way of understanding, and trying to assuage, some of the pain and intensity of being alive.
It was clear how much the legitimate entrepreneurs in this community valued him, the depth of his relationships after just four months, and his innate understanding for navigating crisis in a terrifying situation.
Although several subjects provided the proviso that malignant diseases are terrifying despite the organ involved, there nevertheless remained an overall understanding amongst nearly all participants, that brain cancer is somehow unique and in a category all unto its own.
He physically intimidates the cowering Saul, then goes home to wrap his arms around his terrified wife, never truly understanding how much he frightens and disgusts her.
It's terrifying on the basis of people going through great suffering, things which are beyond the theological understanding of suffering.
It keeps your own understanding of the subject fresh and broad: Without continually revisiting the basics, you quickly forget a terrifying amount.
Perhaps, as our understanding of genetics evolves, we might witness the creation of the Capitol's mutated, oversized golden wasps and their terrifying hallucination causing stings "that raise a lump the size of a plum on contact".
