…is here. Recalling the famous “Stanford Prison Experiment,” he notes,

“[I]t seems that the contrast of power which is particularly evident in prison settings between guards and prisoners is a breeding ground for cruelty. Even Stanford University students randomly assigned to each role, who were presumably bright, ‘normal’ individuals, fell easily into the roles of the powerful and the powerless. It as if the context awakens in people something primitive in them, a part of them for which ‘cruelty constituted that great festival pleasure… and was indeed an ingredient of almost every one of their pleasures’” (quoting Nietzsche).