Marx wrote that "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Simon Sebag Montefiore disagreed. He said that history is never repeated, but "it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.”
I suppose we won't know who was right until the end.
[Sharon Carter]In the last experiment, we knew our scientists. We never knew what they wanted, but we knew who they were.
Here, at first, I think perhaps they changed this, because it compromise the integrity of the experiment. Because the mere fact of knowing that you are being observed changes your behavior. But then I think that there are other ways to study someone without them knowing that they are being studied. I think about us, and how we are not who we say we were when we arrived.
Do you suspect that any of our fellow participants are not who they say they are?
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