Two groups of 12-year-old boys were taken to a Boy Scouts camp, but neither group knew of the other’s existence and believed that their group was the only group in the camp. (Of course, they traveled to the camp by different buses.) During the first week, the two groups carried out their activities separately. They swam in the lake, built hide-outs, and pitched tents. The accompanying adults (who were actually the researchers conducting the experiment) ensured that there was no contact between the two groups. The members of each group bonded as a team.Для совсем занятых, или кому влом читать, краткое изложение:
After one week, the two groups became aware of each other’s presence (as contrived by the adults). At this point, despite their not actually seeing each other, the two groups began distinguishing between “us” and “them” and saying “they (the other group) intruded on our territory”. The researchers were surprised by the extremes in boys’ reactions: how quickly the members of each group had bonded initially with each other and how quickly both groups had seen the other as “the enemy.”
The researchers tried to stop the conflict between the two groups, but simply making the two groups carry out activities together produced no noticeable results. The researchers then staged an “incident” in which the camp’s water supply was cut off and all the boys had to check the water pipe (more than 1 km long) to see where it was blocked. When the blockage was found and removed, the members of both groups joined together in celebrating. By involving all the boys in the resolution of an “incident” that affected the entire camp, the conflict between the two groups evaporated.К чему это я всё?
Humans can cooperate. Given a common objective, they can work together to tackle the task at hand. In a study using monkeys, the experiment was set up so that two monkeys obtained food by cooperating with each other. Initially both of the monkeys obtained food, but the experiment was changed so that only one monkey obtained food even when the two monkeys cooperated. However, even when one of them realized that it would not receive any food, it cooperated with the other, and the monkey who received the food shared it with the other monkey.В общем, если у обезьян получается, у нас тоже должно получиться. Приматы мы или нет?..
И вот кусок, которых хорошо резюмирует сказанное:Милибэнд (министр иностранных дел Великобритании), как говорится у дипломатов, выражал Лаврову (министр иностранных дел России) озабоченности Великобритании в связи с ситуацией вокруг Грузии. Он, в частности, отметил, что Европа вынуждена переосмыслить свои отношения с Россией в ответ на ее агрессивное поведение.
Лавров, согласно рассказу Портера, отреагировал на эти излияния следующей незамысловатой фразой: "Who are you to fucking lecture me?", что можно перевести приблизительно так: "Ты кто такой, чтобы мне, б****, нотации читать?!". Развивая свою мысль, Лавров якобы вопросил, знает ли Милибэнд вообще хоть что-нибудь про российскую историю и помнит ли он, что Великобритания вместе с США вторглась в Ирак в 2003 году, а теперь еще и смеет заикаться о каком-то международном праве.
Все разом, словно по команде (или не словно?), просто перестали сдерживаться, говоря на одну определенную тему. Западным политикам это, конечно, не нравится. Но, надо заметить, это нравится западной публике, потому что российские политики говорят западным то, что им хотели бы сказать многие граждане."Fahrenheit 9/11", к примеру, смотрели?
