The Most Ridiculous Social Experiment I've Ever Seen in My Life

[Music] Six women and five men are put on a raft barely big enough for them and set adrift in the middle of the ocean. What's the goal? One of these 11 people on the raft is a scientist, and he's actually conducting a social experiment with this raft journey. His goal is to figure out the cause of aggression in humans, and based on that, he believes the root cause of our aggression is sexuality, and through this social experiment, the men on this raft will compete with each other to have sexual relations with the women, and this competition will ultimately result in violence. So, what happens on this raft? Does the scientist's claim come true? Do all the women on the raft get pregnant while all the men try to kill each other? No. A completely different, strange, funny, yet elegant picture emerges. In this video, I will tell you the story of the Akali social experiment using real footage from the raft. Before I start, let me tell you, you will both get annoyed with the scientist Santiago who conducted this social experiment throughout the video and also be quite amused by what he does. Here is the world's most absurd, yet most meaningful, social experiment. Anthropologist Santiago Genovés had been fascinated by the issue of violence throughout his career. His own life began intertwined with violence. He was born in the middle of a civil war in Spain and had to flee his country at the age of 15 because of the war. Years later, in 1972, while flying to give a seminar as an academic, the plane was hijacked by five armed assailants. Although the hijackers were eventually neutralized, Santiago observed how differently the passengers on the plane behaved while they were in danger and at risk. Furthermore, in his readings on aggression, he encountered experiments claiming that violent behavior in male monkeys stemmed from the competition to reach fertile female monkeys. These three pieces of Santiago's life—being born amidst a civil war, being hijacked by terrorists in his youth, and his research on monkeys—all sparked a desire within him to conduct a social experiment on humans. So,