I am convinced that the most important point to be taken from this experiment , is that of questioning authority.
I mean, how many people assume the guards are right? How often in society do we see this paradigm? Just because those guys are in power and the other guys are behind bars, whatever they do to maintain order must be ok.
Now , with the courageous revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and now Libya, wow what examples of abuse of power! And how countries that supposedly don't do this, went along with them. i.e our own country.
Which brings us to an uncomfortable question: are we also that way? And if so, are we that in a way we don't know, which is why we get pulled in by these guys? Like, are we naive ? Do we use power that we have achieved in ways that are abusive to others. to other countries, to other immigrants not of the founding father tradition in this country? We vilify Osama bin LAden right. Yet perhaps Mubarak killed more innocent people and was more against freedom than Osama bin Laden. Yet look at our stance today. To me this is why this experiment is sooo important to understand now. We must look beyond the obvious comparisons to prisons. It brings to light the way people mold themselves into authorities...look to please them when they have no sense of higher order themselves.
Also, this can go into discussions of psychology. For example, how the person tried to please their parents, or what sort of authority figure were they.
similarily, a discussion i would like to have is that of the authority of nations. How does a government , or lack there of, i.e. whatever takes the place, the role of authority of a country. How people allow it..is it lack of creating their own order? Does a country with more individuals who are capable of creating their own order, demand more freedom. And isn't this a cycle? i.e. don't there need to be laws that protect people's growth and functionality so that they can indeed become these kind of individuals? Isn't the beauty of the United
States supposedly this weird irony, that we guranteee freeedoms that could ultimately topple over the very government? weird, right? Yet that is what i believe Benjamin Franklin or others had in mind. It is sort of like, give me liberty or give me death. Paul Revere.
To me, this all is very important in analyzing Mexico. I am fascinated with Mexico. I believe it has so much ridiculous potential. It is ready to explode. The things we are seeing right now, are signs that the society is ready for a major overhaul. The whole Fox thing, the changing of parties in government. Nearly a joke, Sure it gave some glimmers of hope and opened them up to being less fascist- like. However, they realize now ,after two presidents of this party, that they need more serious overhaul. More serious analysis, more serious answers.
Not to make it too easy, but I i will give one hint about where the answer lies: In their sense of concept of authority. And this is a discussion that will have huge effects for the continent. And when the US decides to become a part of it, it will be interesting and relevant yes, to the USA. Because we are not alone. We do no exist on this continent or this planet alone. And we must cognize that beginning with here. Someday, going to China will no longer fill that gap. There is a gap, perhaps even a guilty one, s it should be, for not participating in our own continent. Perhaps we don't don't really feel entirely comfortable here. So we move around. Create distractions from the reality that we never really made it with the natives. We never really connected. And while the world was larger, more incommunicable place, perhaps it was less obvious. But now, isn't weird the way the USa and perhaps Canada don't know about the natives of America? And they are not "gone" uh, like they might have thought in the past, the future would look like. They might have ignored that the Spanish were mixing with the natives. Entering into their spritulaties. Preserving culture. Yes, the Spanish dominated,and they still exploit. They still own many of the businesses. They still psychology control the people by establishing that white skin is better.