... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypsvdxLqwtk

Stanford Prison Experiment. This is an excerpt of The Evilness of Power http://www.archive.org/details/mr1001nightsTheEvilnessofPower a documentary-montage I did in 2008 examining the effects of hierarchy on individuals, society and the world at large. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jYx8nwjFQ

Echoes by Pink Floyd https://youtu.be/y-E7_VHLvkE In Art and Artist (1932) Otto Rank describes how any work of art can be analyzed from the perspective of its relationship to death - of the ways it symbolically transcends physical reality and the brevity of life. Some works do so more obviously than others. One such example is the music video Echoes by Pink Floyd, which combines historical legacy (ancient Roman culture) with spiritual themes (timelessness, poetic possibilities of other-worldly realities) and superimposes them over physical reality (geological panoramas), using the inert stone of Roman sculptures as a bridge between these physical and symbolic worlds. In addition to the sculptures, the amphitheater in which they perform contains dramatic death-related historical themes, like its gladiatorial contests or the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, which buried it (& the citizens of Pompeii) in 79 AD. Ironically, the arid desolate scenery, or absence of wilderness, actually adds symbolic life or immortality to these grim historical themes, as the lives of humans are isolated from other species and then elevated above their contextual animal insignificance. The old divide between nature and culture. One could imagine, say, the amphitheater in the middle of a vast busy jungle, colonized and degraded by all manner of plants and creatures. The absence of an audience in the amphitheater, too, plays a role in adding symbolic immortality, as it reduces the performance’s attachment to a particular time period and its collectivity (the impermanent present); increasing the band’s independence and individuality, preventing obsolescence, and enhancing its focus on past and future. The lyrics and musical notes express a desire to reverberate across the eons; while Pink Floyd’s own talented presence alongside themes of modern culture (sound systems, instruments) is captured for posterity in another inert physical medium: film — which eternalizes their youthful vitality and establishes the band’s own prominent link in this creative matrix of meaning and immortal possibilities. Of course, the possibilities of reality are, like Shakespeare famously said, greater than can be dreamt of in our creations. But those possibilities are too uncertain or scary, especially as they relate to death and our significance in the world or cosmos. And so, according to Otto Rank, the artist wishfully defies this fear and uncertainty by concretizing possibilities through creative speculations. Or simply by embellishing the creative speculations in preexisting culture. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIoleJ1VXc

How to reduce our slavishness to culture ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8vL0eODo0