How psychiatric patients were turned into entertainment.
People paid to look at suffering.
Bedlam became associated with public viewing, mockery and spectacle. People experiencing distress were treated as objects to observe.
This is one of the clearest examples of dehumanisation. The patient was not seen as a person with a story. They were turned into a scene.
Awareverse refuses spectacle. The point is not to display pain. The point is to restore dignity.
When looking at public spectacle, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?