Monday 9:15PM: Last Wednesday heard on radio about a book named, No Mercy. No Mercy True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality By: Eleanor Learmonth, Jenny Tabakoff; ... tales of horror and psychological experiments on humans. One told of a ship that hit a sandbank off Senegal (it has some famous name for the incident); where there werent enough lifeboats to save all the passengers, so the crew persuaded some passengers to board a makeshift raft; they towed this raft behind rowboats. Unfortunately the raft was not well constructed, so the tow rope was cut. The raft drifted further away form the shore and to certain doom. On the first day the crew ate all the food, and then as days went by, the people fought and killed most everyone. Someone must have been saved to have told the story. [This sounds much like the story of The Batavia wreck off Western Australia, when the ship sank of the reef, people divided into groups on the island reef island and enslaved groups to gain power over them, while the captain had rowed off to send back a rescue party. When the rescue party arrived they found that a massacre had killed most of the people - proving that civilised people can turn to barbarism, if left unsupervised or without rules to live by]. Similar dramatic story was written in Lord of the Flies - isolated schoolboys going feral on an island. The boys divide off to protect their property and devised ceremonies and rituals to consolidated their membership / loyalty to the other people and fight anyone who is opposed these objectives. Some scientists devised an experiment in the USA: in a National Park, they let loose a group of school students and then un-be-known to this group, another group of boys were introduced to the same area. So, instead of grouping together to find a way out of the park, the two groups opposed each other and fought over there area of the park - a bit like animals - monkeys and meerkats, for examples. Youll have to read the book.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:40:54 +0000
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