A team led by Yale University professor Molly Crockett is close to concluding a multi-year study exploring the sort of shifts in well-being and altruism that occur at Burning Man. As she says, “If social scientists were to build a new society designed to promote cooperation, based on evidence from lab studies, it would probably look a lot like Black Rock City.”

https://behavioralscientist.org/how-to-go-to-burning-man-without-going-to-burning-man/

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Cover CSN’s “Carry On”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvzBSVZvM8c

I am inclined to believe that we build new societies based upon all sorts of principles all the time – On line.

I’m sure there’s plenty of Sociologists and Anthrops out there studying it, but (like most social science) it’s taking a long time to find its way into the public discourse. What’s the lag time, 15 years or something?

sarahs mum said:

A team led by Yale University professor Molly Crockett is close to concluding a multi-year study exploring the sort of shifts in well-being and altruism that occur at Burning Man. As she says, “If social scientists were to build a new society designed to promote cooperation, based on evidence from lab studies, it would probably look a lot like Black Rock City.”

https://behavioralscientist.org/how-to-go-to-burning-man-without-going-to-burning-man/

can’t read all that tonight, but will say one of the key misfortunes to find (read hijack) notions of reciprocity is ideas that fail to understand it doesn’t need be mostly immediate, so i’d hesitate at making much out of an event as a useful experiment, you know an event (with situational forces – expectations) has novelty. The backbone nor finer attributes of long term, or long range reciprocity aren’t really in the immediate, and certainly aren’t born of novelty

you know, if someone has a notion of reciprocity, or is subject to it as part of of motivational theory, along with a belief in the imposition of immediacy to evidence it, that might result in people doing just the opposite, though perhaps hide it. You’d probably end up with egoism dominating, really

transition said:

sarahs mum said:

A team led by Yale University professor Molly Crockett is close to concluding a multi-year study exploring the sort of shifts in well-being and altruism that occur at Burning Man. As she says, “If social scientists were to build a new society designed to promote cooperation, based on evidence from lab studies, it would probably look a lot like Black Rock City.”

https://behavioralscientist.org/how-to-go-to-burning-man-without-going-to-burning-man/

can’t read all that tonight, but will say one of the key misfortunes to find (read hijack) notions of reciprocity is ideas that fail to understand it doesn’t need be mostly immediate, so i’d hesitate at making much out of an event as a useful experiment, you know an event (with situational forces – expectations) has novelty. The backbone nor finer attributes of long term, or long range reciprocity aren’t really in the immediate, and certainly aren’t born of novelty

you know, if someone has a notion of reciprocity, or is subject to it as part of of motivational theory, along with a belief in the imposition of immediacy to evidence it, that might result in people doing just the opposite, though perhaps hide it. You’d probably end up with egoism dominating, really

reciprocity more exists in or as potentials

right read rest that quickly, was still open on the screen, it’s actually very good, though couple things not quite right, taken to being not quite right by enthusiasm

I sort of read up a bit about burning man earlier this year.

I don’t get it. What is a “gift” in this context.

And are we talking about potlatch – trial by gift giving leading to near bankruptcy?

mollwollfumble said:

I sort of read up a bit about burning man earlier this year.

I don’t get it. What is a “gift” in this context.

And are we talking about potlatch – trial by gift giving leading to near bankruptcy?

Making something. Giving it away.