• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    171·
    5 months ago

    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?

    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      242·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.orgEnglish
        41·
        5 months ago

        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.

      • tacosanonymous@mander.xyzEnglish
        14·
        5 months ago

        I mostly agree with the other *homey about “foment.”

        I just want to add that all of the social experiments I’ve ever seen, *participated in, and/or ran nothing brings people together like a common enemy.

        • vrek@programming.devEnglish
          13·
          5 months ago

          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.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        “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

  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    69·
    5 months ago

    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

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    So, hear me out here, there is a huge reproduction crisis out there. In theory, you could try to replicate this study without the researcher being an asshole and see if it still works out and this would be a valuable line of research that could technically get funded.

    I’m going to need a decent ship, some volunteers, and a 101 day supply of daiquiris.

    Edit: (For clarity - this is scientific reproduction, not human reproduction)

  • thenextguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    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

    • Humana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      After watching this, and also studying the Stanford experiment. It seems to me the source of much human conflict isn’t sex like the sociologist hypothesized, but class structures. But he seemed to refuse to even entrain that possibility.