https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
How I yearn for the good old days when it was edgy and cool to perform (slightly?) unethical experiments on impressionable youngsters. You can also search for Robbers Cave on YouTube and find video recaps. For you gematria experts that don’t like to read about history and suffer the indignity of reading. The story sounds like gematria “truther” cliques. People angry at the world that can never agree on the proper decode and figure out exactly who they hate today. It’s better to hate everyone because Alex Jones said so than put an effort into thinking for yourself and talking to experts. Their in groups are formed. Sports, crypto, end of the world, synchronicity. Yet since the resolution of the conflict phase of the experiment is a never ending always unfulfilled grift you never know who or how long a peaceable phase will last. Usually it’s a matter of how much the grift dollars are dwindling and the need to drum up business.
It was one of those videos that is the reason I mention the questionable ethics. After recapping the in group formation phase the video’s author mentioned how the conflict was achieved. Campground games, nothing wrong with that. Prizes, something to work for to encourage an effort for victory. Cool. But the prizes included actual…knives?!? Holy shit, the kids were trashing each other’s cabins and getting into physical alterations. A headline about ROBBERS CAVE PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENT - 7 YOUTHS DEAD would have made Zimbardo proud.
If gematria wants a chance to do some good in the world, here’s that opportunity. Find a group of kids who aren’t familiar with gematria and separate into two groups. One group is funneled into “positive” gematria. Harmless stuff like reading parables with a positive moral message. And decodes of puppies, cute baby bunnies, butterflies, Little Debbie snack cakes, bagpipe music, volunteering at the library, bake sales for charity, etc…. The second group, the nasty stuff that already exists on the internet. So and so is the Antichrist, sports are rigged and all the political propaganda.
The group conflict is achieved just by the differing gematria topics. Let’s skip the part of the prizes for winning the competition because we’d probably have to upgrade to AR-15s and porn or something else nasty.
Now how exactly do you resolve the conflict? How do you make them team up to work together towards a common goal? The solution is in the early experiment that was considered a failure and why Robbers Cave was a second attempt. A reset button because they didn’t like the outcome. The kids figured out they were being manipulated and teamed up against the manipulators.
The sooner people give up on the lack of real answers from gematria the better for everyone. The manipulators are the ones that are the weather vanes with no consistent message other than constant requests for money. The conspiracy grifters who change sides on a regular basis that read the room to guess at who you should hate today is more likely to produce a money transfer from ordinary people to them.
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