From: "max neill" <meneilu2-AT-student.ucsm.ac.uk>
Subject: Panopticon of Abu Ghraib
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:46:00 +0100


Thanks for the information about the Panopticon, I had not realised that Bentham had designed it to allow such full public access to his architecture.
The genius of such a design is that it would make us all responsible for whatever goes on, which in a way we are at Abu Ghraib. 
Other accounts that, for me could help us understand what has happened at Abu Ghraib include the description of  'necrophilia' by Erich Fromm, 
where he argues that a social system that treats people as objects leads to a mindset of sadism and love of death, and of course the darkest works of 
De Sade himself.

"We speak and the word goes beyond us to consequences and ends which we had 
not conceived of" Gadamer