Stephen Colbert had Dr. Philip Zimbardo on his show last night. He's the professor behind the famed Stanford experiment that had student essentially reenact the guard/prisoner dynamic of concentration camps and showed that even "good" people could quickly let power and privilege overtake them and do horrible things. He's selling his new book that apparently tries to cast Lucifer, or the devil, in a better light. Unfortunately, Zimbardo wasn't aware that Colbert was a Sunday School teacher.
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Makes for an interesting debate on what evil is, and makes an even better case for going to Sunday School!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Colbert gives it to Zimbardo
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That was a great moment in Colbert history!
Guests should really be informed prior to going on the air that they shouldn't engage in a theological debate with Colbert - he'll always win, and you'll never get the interview back on track! : )
I literally fell off the couch laughing at that point. Amanda's familiar with all of Zimbardo's work as a psychologist and wasn't a fan anyway, so we were already making fun of him, so when Colbert broke that out at the end, I just about died.
Laura had fallen asleep at that point and I woke her up laughing so hard, "I TEACH Sunday School..."
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