New Video Explores How the Pandemic Unveiled the Worst Among Us

American Thinker ^ | 1 Jan, 2023 | Susan D. Harris

[MtnClimber]

“Someone said things aren’t getting worse. The veil over society is being removed.”

So begins the narration on a recently uploaded YouTube video titled, “The Veil over Society Got Removed for a Moment.” Currently pushing over 170,000 views in five days, it’s a stream-of-consciousness exploration of society during the pandemic.

The video begins, (without quoting Shakespeare), by proposing that, “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” It then segues into a straightforward review of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research in 1971, it was a real social experiment in which some college students were assigned to play guards while others were to be prisoners. It is most notable for the fact that although it was supposed to last two weeks, it had to be terminated after only six days because the “mistreatment of prisoners escalated so alarmingly.”

After acknowledging that the experiment was flawed and its conclusions controversial, the narrator begins comparing what happened during the experiment to what happened during the pandemic:

You have one group, the prisoners, that have been dehumanized, they’re stripped of their individual identity… and basically labeled as “bad people.” And then you have these other people who were given a costume of authority… and they kind of have this group identity going of “good guy,” acting in ways they perceive to be sanctioned as okay by the majority of society. [This was] due to the power dynamic of perceived authority combined with the dehumanization of the so-called prisoners… And I feel personally like whether some people want to see it or not, this is something that many of us witnessed and experienced over the last two years in [our] society.

[Sarcazmo]

We’re not officially banned from anywhere, but there are several local businesses I will never enter again.

[SgtHooper]

“...one can reasonably conclude that the “caring” Left today is so far into fantasy-land as to make/prove them delusional and dangerous.”

You have encapsulated society perfectly!

[gloryblaze]

Thanks! I hadn’t heard of that one before. So simple and straightforward. I’m reminded of Rush playing a refrain of the media talking point for the day.

I can honestly say I’m proud to often be the odd one out.

[wjcsux]

“Wonder when/if the pro-vaxxers are going to show up to put in their 2 cents. 🤣”

For the most part, the Branch Covidians have been AWOL. I haven’t seen DugwayDuke in awhile. Entropy12 shows up from time to time to tell us how great he is and say something really stupid.

[cpdiii]

I saw a young woman in her early 20s riding a bicycle along the Galveston Seawall, in the open air and bright sun. She was wearing a mask.

As Yodo would say, “The stupid is strong in this one.”

[minnesota_bound]

There is one person in my 36 unit apt building still wearing a mask.... he wears a baseball cap and large wraparound glasses and a mask. He looks ridiculous.