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Honestly reads like some bizarre social experiment by the organizers. Conditions degrade for a few days and then put Limp Bizkit on stage to play "Break" for an angry audience. Give everyone candles and then have RHCP play "Fire". C'mon.

Crowds are incredibly stupid and malleable. Someone knew things would get out of hand.

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Didn’t think of this at all reading the article but your comment made me think of recent Jan 6 events in DC

I'm imagining a Let's Do It And Be Legends type with an extra dash of sociopathy who had just watched an edgy Discovery Channel show about the Stanford Prison Experiment and thought, "If we don't call it an experiment, we don't need to worry about experimental ethics [taps head]."

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