I tgink I heard of that. Didn't the "scientist" just like self isolate, angry that they didn't fight eachother, while the other passengers became lifelong friends and had a great time?
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It went beyond that. In an attempt to ferment discontent in the group he started reading their reports out loud. Airing all their dirty laundry. Instead of getting them mad at each other he basically forced them to settle all their issues and form together, closer than ever. After that didn't work he started trying to usurp authority from the captain that he selected because he thought as a woman she would crumble under the pressure of command. His greatest accomplishment as the new captain was damaging a fuel line and failing to fix it by swimming in the fuel and water.
If I remember correctly they had to rescue him and distract him while they fixed it themselves and after that he basically sulked in the corner of the raft. Only getting the balls to try something near the end of the experiment, trying to Shanghai the raft and expand the experiment to try and force his theories into reality. After they finally got back the subjects would get together every few years to relive the good old days without him.
It's ironic, by trying to get them to hate each other he accidentally became something for all of them to rally against.
ferment discontent
I'm stealing this typo.
(It's "foment", but I love the imagery of rotten, festering discontent)
You know, you reminded me of a vague memory. Making that same mistake in school, being corrected, and deciding that I liked it better my way. I was a stubborn child.
It is 100% better your way.
Apparently they're related to two different Latin phrases. Fervēre, meaning "to boil or seethe," and fōvēre, meaning "to keep warm" or "to heat". So they're similar in definition and sound. Off by just a matter of degree.
Even better!
Kimchi Conflict. A great name for a punk band.
After they finally got back the subjects would get together every few years to relive the good old days without him.
The linked article in the post claims that the crew never met again until the person filming the documentary tracked some of them down.
They had not met since the Peace Project docked in Mexico 43 years earlier, so the reunion was poignant.
I knew I'd get something wrong. lol thanks for the correction.
It's ironic, by trying to get them to hate each other he accidentally became something for all of them to rally against.
Major Payne already taught us that this works:
"They hate you!"
"Good. It'll draw them close together, make 'em a team."
That's awesome. Like he was really hoping for some dismal and dark exposé on "savage human nature" a la "Lord of the Flies", and at every turn, proven wrong by people who were happy to just get along and cooperate for mutual benefit...
... Which should come as a complete shock, social species that we are! /s
I think these desperately dark tales of people turning on each other in sociological contexts is another propaganda tool to put this idea in our heads that without "qualified leaders" we'd all just be grunting and beating each other over the head with rocks.
Nah, someone with something to gain has to motivate us to fight each other. What if we just said "lol, anyway" and kept getting along on the raft?
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“Hey guys, I think this is the Bad Place!”
I mostly agree with the other honey about “foment.”
I just want to add that all of the social experiments I’ve ever seen, participates in, and/or ran nothing brings people together like a common enemy.
This is why the US Army has drill sergeants.
It’s ironic, by trying to get them to hate each other he accidentally became something for all of them to rally against.
Like reverse Stockholm syndrome.
More like the age old scare politicians use to unite nations: An outward enemy.
Except everyone hates on the politician instead.
So... did this scientists great grandchildren invent reality TV?
Fun fact a lot of people, including myself, believe the invention of reality TV was actually the writer strike in early 2000s. Basically TV writers went to the producers and said "you make all these millions and only pay us this small amount when we are the reason people watch these shows". The producers basically said "fuck you we will make TV shows without writers"
That created reality TV in America and panel shows in the UK.
This is widely credited as the origin of modern reality tv, but it's not completely true. The earliest reality shows I can remember are Road Rules and The Real World, and those both predate the strike.
True, maybe didn't create the concept but definitely expanded it
Big brother is the first reality TV show that I recall being popular in the UK and Ireland. It kicked off in 2000 so well before the writers strike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(British_TV_series)
Lelouche or Code Geasse’s storyboard
A tale as old as time.
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That scientist sounds like a real bitch.
It goes to show that humans are actually good to each other on an individual level or in small groups.
It's when we place ourselves in massive groups and communities of thousands or millions or billions of people that we start to act terribly to other humans.
"tribalism" being the word we use to label when a civilization engages in pointless violence when it's tribes that avoid this bullshit naturally by excluding the waste of time members of society who try to break society is so frustrating to me
Brb, setting up an instance on https://sex.raft/
See you all at the floating orgy!
I would actually join this lol.
They had the sex but forgot to write it down, so they were just screwing ~~around.~~
One of the rare cases where fucking around did not lead to finding out
By his actions to stir up drama, I can probably say with confidence that he did not get laid on that journey.
The dollop did an episode on this and it’s absolutely bonkers.
Came here to say this! Highly recommend a listen.
The Dollop Episode 659 - The Love Raft
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Great episode. Absolutely bonkers and I still sing "Why do we fight? Why do we fight?" when my kid wants to argue with me. It's a great diffuser.
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Sounds like a bit of Mark Twain…
Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansaw; a Bhuddist from China; a Brahmin from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh—not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.
It did however produce four awkwardly conceived children of rather mixed heritage and inconsistent religious convictions.
There's an HBO Max original reality series called The Raft that sets out to "replicate" this "experiment" while injecting the usually reality competition faire. It's a pretty fun watch
If you televised that it would get 23 seasons on Hulu.
this "experiment" is SO much funnier than this post implies, the idea of the experiment is that in nature if you put males and females together they will either turn to 100% hate or 100% lust.
When the people were just having fun on the boat away from society he was upset that they weren't fucking he would act like an asshole to them.
When they inevitably got sick of his ass and yelled at him he wrote in his notes something along the lines of "I think my experiment is leaning twords pure rage side"
there's so much more to it that I'm forgetting but this video is 100% a watch https://youtu.be/BHXw3E1VqK4
"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be an experiment, would it?"
If you think this is wild, check out: Stanford prison experiment - Wikipedia https://share.google/tnvESUZQoYk8JH46l
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