katxiripiti
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Joined: April 22, 2009
Re: loved the game but one little
criticism (spoiler)
Posted: October 6, 2009 at 01:42
Hehe, nice one, I didn't thought of that.
But now that
I do I actually don't agree that much, because if you
imagine the villagers as real people, of course there would
be stories passing from generation to generation, about
their old land (think Moses and the Biblical Exodus)
And by seeing everyone else working for the return to
happen since they were kids, I think people would just go
along, because that was their goal as a village.
There is a nice story about this, I'm not
sure if you ever heard it, but it's niceto explain
behavioral interaction between individuals:
Think 5 monkeys, a cage, a banana, a ladder and a water
hose.
The 5 monkeys would be locked in a cage, after
which a banana was hung from the ceiling with, fortunately
for the monkeys (or so it seemed…), a ladder placed
right underneath it.
Of course, immediately, one of the
monkeys would race towards the ladder, intending to climb it
and grab the banana. However, as soon as he would start to
climb, someone would spray the monkey with ice-cold water.
In addition, however, he would also spray the other four
monkeys…
When a second monkey was about to climb
the ladder, the cientist would, again, spray the monkey with
ice-cold water, and apply the same treatment to its four
fellow inmates; likewise for the third climber and, if they
were particularly persistent (or dumb), the fourth one. Then
they would have learned their lesson: they were not going to
climb the ladder again – banana or no banana.
Then one of the monkeys was replaced with a new one. As
can be expected, the new guy would spot the banana, think
“why don’t these idiots go get it?!” and
start climbing the ladder. Then, however, it got
interesting: the other four monkeys, familiar with the
cold-water treatment, would run towards the new guy –
and beat him up. The new guy, blissfully unaware of the
cold-water history, would get the message: no climbing up
the ladder in this cage – banana or no banana.
When the beast outside the cage would replace a second
monkey with a new one, the events would repeat themselves
– monkey runs towards the ladder; other monkeys beat
him up; new monkey does not attempt to climb again –
with one notable detail: the first new monkey, who had never
received the cold-water treatment himself (and didn’t
even know anything about it), would, with equal vigour and
enthusiasm, join in the beating of the new guy on the
block.
Same thing when 3rd monkey
replacement, likewise for the fourth until, eventually, all
the monkeys had been replaced and none of the ones in the
cage had any experience or knowledge of the cold-water
treatment.
Then, a new monkey was introduced into the
cage. It ran toward the ladder only to get beaten up by the
others. Yet, this monkey turned around and asked “why
do you beat me up when I try to get the banana?” The
other four monkeys stopped, looked at each other slightly
puzzled and, finally, shrugged their shoulders:
“Don’t know. But that’s the way we do
things around here”…