Anyone ever do this in school? Reading up on it I'm surprised at how differently it was done in my class, instead of this sort of multicultural diversity thing we had it so the blue eyes were the "State" (we went facsist route on my nudging) and had to slowly take away the rights of the Brown eyes through laws and decrees, the goal was to see how long the brownies could last before resorting to terrorism.
We couldn't get past half of the experiment before school ended but my team was VERY creative with out propaganda borrowing heavily from Goebbels as I was the most well read.
I was the Fuhrer and it was awesome as people actually listened and respected by authoritah in the confines of the experiment. I modeled myself heavily on Jake Featherston.
I think the big breakthrough was when we successfully pioneered our first legislation that put brown eyed children into inferior and segregated schools under the guise of "catering to their special needs".
Anyone else do the experiment? Or a varient thereof?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:my team was VERY creative with out propaganda borrowing heavily from Goebbels as I was the most well read.
Dude, if you and your class recognized what you were doing well enough to borrow from Goebbels, you undermined the whole point of the experiment. How old were you at the time? You couldn't've been that young, since you mention Featherston.
It's not an "experiment" if the participants know what they're trying to demonstrate. Your teacher should have recognized that almost immediately.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Hmm. Why am I having flashbacks to Asimov's Foundation novels, and Hari Seldon not sending any psychologists to Foundation, to keep people from messing with his plan?
Weird thing for you to remind me of, Tom.
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
Did that in seventh grade. It was after we had watched the movie though, so everyone knew what was going on. Mostly we just spent the whole class giggling about it.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
I liked the experiment where people made up stories about their past to service their juvenile wish fulfillment.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :