Torture Device Infomercials
We referred to these scenes collectively as the “History of Torture,” because all three were actually used in Medieval times. In addition to satirically addressing the (all-too-true) story of a Utah man who was waterboarded at work as a motivational technique, these scenes also call attention to the moral equivalence of waterboarding and the more gruesome techniques of the past.
Waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and ritual humiliation can seem more harmless than The Rat Cage, The Brank, or The Chair of Torture simply because they are less blunt and generally aren’t bloody. On a moral level, however, the tortures of the past and the tortures of the present are indistinguishable.
The Rat Cage
The Brank
The Chair of Torture (Chair of Motivation!)
