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Hooked on House
October 8, 2008So I’ve been watching House M.D. during my spare time. I only get to watch one or two episodes a day because of my workload. I can’t afford to do a marathon, though that would be ideal. I’m only halfway through season one, and I still have three seasons to go, add to that the first season of Mad Men which I plan to watch after I finish House. I don’t exactly remember the first time I was able to watch an episode on TV, but I’m pretty sure I fell in love with the show after that first time - love at first sight, if you will.
Lately I’ve been wondering if there is a real Dr. House. I wonder if the creator of the show based this House character loosely on someone, doctor or not. But if there were a real Dr. House, I want to meet him, talk to him, even let him mock me and be irreverent with me - I just adore his wit, humor and personality. It would also be nice if he were my doctor. That would be sweet. Or maybe a boss would be a better idea because he couldn’t care less about his patients, really. He only cares about their diseases. Cares might not even be the right word.
Anyway, I’ve never been this involved in a TV show since God knows when. I’m glad people still make crap-free shows like this one.
What’s the Formula for Evil?
July 29, 2008So, I’ve been reading this book (halfway through it as of this writing) - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. It’s a rather heavy read, almost like a college psychology textbook, but I love heavy reads once in a while. The book was written by Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford University psychology professor who conducted the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment back in the ’70s. He took a group of normal, healthy (physically, mentally and emotionally) male college students and placed them in a makeshift prison at the basement of Stanford University. Half were randomly assigned as prisoners and the other half as guards.
The objective of the study was to see how the students would react in an environment alien to them (none of them have been imprisoned before and none of them have been jailguards before). The study was supposed to last for two weeks, but about three prisoners already mentally and emotionally broke down by the end of the first week. On the other hand, in a matter of less than seven days, the guards became more and more aggressive toward the prisoners. The experiment was cut short because it was getting out of hand - almost all of them, guards and prisoners alike, forgot that it was just an experiment. They have immersed themselves in the role so deeply that it had altered their behavior.
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