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Man, nobody seen nobody, You 22 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:24.040 don't need. 23 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.480 No Man's like you followed at a little story and 24 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:28.640 you got back like that. 25 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:29.760 Man, that's man. 26 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:31.760 Man don't black and dang on the panel. 27 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.319 Man no matter. 28 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:43.079 Man All right, Aiden Paladin, Welcome back to the Jay 29 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:43.560 Burdens Show. 30 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:44.120 How you doing? 31 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:46.200 I'm good, Hey, thanks for having me back. How are 32 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:46.599 you doing? 33 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.040 I'm doing quite well. I'm always excited to have you 34 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:54.640 on our last discussion I think was particularly interesting. But uh, 35 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.840 in the couple months since, you have continued to put 36 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.000 out a lot of great work on your YouTube channel. 37 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:06.400 Thank you, including a pretty interesting piece about left wing 38 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.240 political violence. Now, obviously the big story really of the 39 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:15.400 last year was the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but political 40 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.759 violence has not stopped in the intervening time. Obviously, there's 41 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.199 been dramatic footage out of Minnesota. Two ICE agents were 42 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:26.960 shot in the Pacific Northwest overnight. This is continuing. So 43 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.199 I'm curious if you could, could you describe what provoked 44 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.360 you to make this and then you know what you found, right. 45 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.680 So it was the assassination of Charlie Kirk that was 46 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:39.120 the impetus behind me looking into it. And then also 47 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.520 what I found to be a consistent problem in looking 48 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.360 into violence rates, terrorism rates, these kinds of things is 49 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:52.439 that there are often gaps in the data that are 50 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:54.479 just not accounted for, and so I wanted to take 51 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.479 a look for myself and see what we've got, For example, 52 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.879 massive data sets, the purest data set, which is Personals 53 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.520 of individual Radicalization in the United States, and then the 54 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:08.759 Global Terrorism Database. These are particularly the GTD Global Terrorism 55 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:12.639 Database is enormous. It's like forty eight thousand cases or 56 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:16.639 something like that, huge enormous data set that goes back 57 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:19.919 to the nineteen seventies, and the United States one purist 58 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:22.560 that goes back to the nineteen forties. So you have 59 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:26.000 an enormous amount of information in these data sets, and 60 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:31.479 what they include are not just Particularly the Global Terrorism 61 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.000 Database is very good on this one. It doesn't just 62 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:40.719 include injuries and casualties. It also includes attempted terrorist attacks 63 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:44.919 that didn't necessarily result in any injury or casualty, and 64 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:49.639 then it categorizes them when possible along with known domestic, 65 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.360 internet or international terrorist groups a group affiliation. And what 66 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.400 I was able to find in going through that is 67 00:03:56.439 --> 00:04:01.800 that it seems that the left is because we commonly 68 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.759 hear that the right conducts far more acts of violence. 69 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:07.879 And first of all, in order to be able to 70 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:09.599 nail down what do you mean by the right is 71 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:13.039 more violent than the left, I decided to narrow that 72 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.479 down into acts of terror because I think those are 73 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.560 the most extreme. They're also far easier to classify as 74 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.319 an intentional political attack rather than things like street violence 75 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.720 or prison violence, which can have all sorts of motivations, interpersonal. 76 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:30.920 You know, with gangs, there's all kinds of drama and 77 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:32.839 things that are things that are involved in that. But 78 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:37.279 with terrorism, it's directed and it's usually political in some way. 79 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:39.920 So if I went through the when I went through 80 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:43.439 the Global Terrorism Database and accounted for all of the 81 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:48.399 attempted attacks that were not successful, groups that were broadly 82 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.759 speaking left wing, and I went through and not only 83 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:55.720 categorize them them myself based on you know, known affiliations, 84 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.079 like what do these groups represent? And they break down 85 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.560 into things like, particularly if you look at history, environmental groups, 86 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.879 animal rights groups, and then of course you have things 87 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:09.959 like Antifa and you know, more modern sort of left 88 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.920 wing groups versus the right wing ones. You know, your 89 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.319 classic KKK whatever you think about that, being aligned with 90 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:22.560 Democrats or not. You know, anti Islam is that one 91 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:26.160 can be a little bit iffy in some cases. But 92 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:32.120 broad speaking, so like whether underground classic left leaning terrorist 93 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.600 organization ku Klux Klan, whatever you think of them, is 94 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.160 categorized typically as a right wing organization, went through and 95 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:43.000 checked those. I also ran my personal checks of these 96 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.519 versus what other scholars had done. My alignment and my 97 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.959 categorizations lined up with theirs more or less identically, with 98 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.279 a couple of very slight variations. So I had both 99 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.920 gone through it myself and validated it with external sources. 100 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:01.920 And what I found is that people or left wing 101 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:07.839 groups were as likely to attempt acts of terror. Actually 102 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:09.839 they were slightly more so by about point five percent, 103 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.800 but it was nearly identical. The difference was that when 104 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:18.199 a left wing group or individual engaged in any sort 105 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.759 of terrorism, they were far less likely to kill or 106 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.399 injure anyone. I'm trying to find the exact statistic here 107 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.120 because I have it in my notes. The percentage of 108 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:33.079 right wing groups being completed attacks perpetrated in twenty two 109 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:35.040 and twenty nineteen in the US that resulted at least 110 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.480 one injury was sixty four point three percent. Well, fifty 111 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:39.839 nine percent of left wing completed attacks resulted in at 112 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:42.879 least one injury in that timeframe. A data further regarding 113 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.720 deaths illustrate this difference, as of completed right wing attacks 114 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.680 during this period, fifty percent resulted in at least one death, well, 115 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.319 twenty nine percent of completed left wing attacks resulted in 116 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:55.079 at least one death. In total, a right wing attack 117 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:57.439 is on average one point seven times one point seven 118 00:06:57.519 --> 00:06:59.759 two times more likely to result in a death than 119 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:01.879 as a left wing attack, and a right wing attack 120 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.040 is one point nine times more likely to result in 121 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.160 an injury than is a left wing attack based on 122 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.959 trends in two thousand and two, So it seems to 123 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.879 be that the difference is not so much one of intent, 124 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:17.720 it's one of competence. The left, when it decides that 125 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.680 anyone on the left, either groups or individuals, decide they 126 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:24.959 want to engage in political terrorism, are far less efficacious 127 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.560 at carrying it out. If the goal of terrorism is 128 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:31.439 what the goal of terrorism is to terrorize people through death, injury, 129 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:32.639 and violence. 130 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:39.399 Well, I think that there's several interesting factors here. I 131 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.560 think one of them. And I'm glad you brought up 132 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:49.240 the prison violence, right because oftentimes in discussions of these statistics, 133 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.240 and you see this a ton as well in the 134 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.959 discussion around school shootings, right, there's sort of a deliberate, 135 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.800 a calculated effort to sort of chum the waters, right, 136 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.759 And so like, you know, some guy getting depressed and 137 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.560 you know, painting his brains over the roof of his 138 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.240 Honda Civic is okay, sure that is a time a 139 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.879 gun was shot on a school property. That's not what 140 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.279 we're talking about. Somewhat similarly, you know, I don't pretend 141 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.519 to have any insight into how the Arian Brotherhood works, 142 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:19.720 but not really a political group per se. Any it's 143 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:22.079 sort of a different thing. Like if you go in 144 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:24.519 there and talk to those guys about like Francis Parker Yaki, 145 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.920 you probably won't get a warm response. Now, that said, 146 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.600 one of the things that you know, just upon first 147 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.559 hearing this from you, my reaction is, well, okay, So 148 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:37.960 that's when we consider the kind of like very serious 149 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:41.879 political terrorism. But what patterns do we see on the 150 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.480 kind of lower level violence, right, not necessarily street fights, 151 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.559 but for instance, I'm sure you saw the dramatic footage 152 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.679 of this conservative figure in Minnesota being you know, dragged 153 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:57.279 into a crowd and stabbed. How is something like that classified? 154 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.679 And also, and I realized this has past the scope 155 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.360 of what I was supposed to ask you, but you know. 156 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:02.159 I'm curious about it. 157 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:06.399 How does that bear out in the data for. 158 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:08.960 What I looked at in Global Terrorism database and in 159 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.799 piis that isn't usually included because street riots and violence 160 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:17.840 like that, you're talking about emotional social contagion. There's emotions 161 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.759 are running high and they become contagious amongst crowds. This 162 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.840 is you know, very old why you don't shout fire 163 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.200 in a crowded movie theater. It makes everyone freak out 164 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.080 and they share their emotions instantaneously. This is mirror neuron stuff. 165 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.480 It evolved somewhere between twenty five and sixty five million 166 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.039 years ago. In primates, people have to be able to 167 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:42.360 communicate their emotions instantaneously via non rebel cues. So as 168 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.320 a result, it becomes very difficult even if one side 169 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:48.000 ends up committing more acts of violence against the other. 170 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.240 In terms of street violence, it's usually not planned. So 171 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:56.039 when I was specifically looking at the terrorism information, that 172 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:59.120 was to try and find a way to operationalize who 173 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.559 does violence and why is it that there is this 174 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.279 pervasive narrative that the right is overwhelmingly violent comparatively to 175 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.600 the left. And the reason why you're able to get 176 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:09.759 those kinds of findings from the data is again a 177 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:14.240 confidence issue, not a confidence issue. The left seems just 178 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.600 as confident in doing violence, and that's why they will 179 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.639 go out into the streets and stab somebody, particularly when 180 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:27.080 they're in these highly emotional, emotionally contagious environments. And funnily enough, 181 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:30.080 it links back to something that leftists themselves tend to 182 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.600 tout as their number one virtue, which is empathy. Ultimately, 183 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:38.799 that behavior, the street violence, the crowd violence, is driven 184 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:44.039 by those mirror neuron responses that are evolutionary adapted, evolutionarily 185 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:47.399 adapted and allow them to translate these emotions amongst each other. 186 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.840 They do organize, but it doesn't have to be organized. 187 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:56.080 The violence can erupt simultaneous or spontaneously, and it becomes 188 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:00.240 difficult to then pull apart well who started what was 189 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.320 this ideologically driven or was this emotionally driven? And where 190 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.000 do you draw the line there? And I think it 191 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:06.639 is difficult to delineate the two. 192 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:14.120 Yeah, I want to get into that sort of empathy 193 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.799 you mentioned before we went live. You were talking about, 194 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:23.399 you know, Goad Sad and his framing of suicidal empathy, 195 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:27.320 a term I actually did not know. He was irresponsible 196 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.000 for popularizing. I've heard it through him. 197 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:30.480 So he's about to publish a book on it, and 198 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.679 I think like three weeks so he's been He's not 199 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:36.000 the only one. It's been popularized by plenty of people, 200 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.279 but I think Elon Musk has been on Joe Rogan 201 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:44.120 to talk about God Sad's suicidal empathy hypothesis and stuff, 202 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.080 so I think he's become sort of the face of it. 203 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.399 And so, as far as I understand, this is effectively 204 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.759 a pithier way to explain in the heat map meat, 205 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.919 which you know, for those who aren't familiar and terminally online, it's, 206 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:03.080 you know, a way to categorize how people rank order 207 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:06.799 their attachments. People generally described as conservative place the most 208 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.799 weight on their immediate connections with kind of a slow 209 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.759 taper off, whereas liberals, and again this is stated instead 210 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:19.639 of revealed, but place a much higher level of pull 211 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:23.600 or sway on these sort of universal bonds towards humanity 212 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.840 writ large or the universe, these these kind of more 213 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.799 abstract concepts. And so I'm curious, right when we talk 214 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:35.320 about empathy, what do you see going on there? And 215 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:37.720 you mentioned that you have at least some issues with 216 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:40.080 that term suicidal empathy, and I'm curious to get your 217 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:40.600 thoughts on it. 218 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.759 So the Weights at All twenty fourteen analysis, the heat 219 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:48.639 map mean is probably like one of the most misunderstood, 220 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:52.039 i think intentionally misunderstood studies because it reveals something about 221 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.240 the Left that I think they feel very uncomfortable about. 222 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.240 The Weights at All analysis contains several studies and of 223 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.840 itself that produce that heat mapp. That's just from one 224 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:01.960 of the studies they conducted. 225 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.840 January Sky January Sale time. 226 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:07.360 What it's great? 227 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.120 You get Sky TV with exclusive shows like a Knight 228 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.720 of the Seven Kingdoms, Love a Man in Armor, Netflix 229 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:15.840 with The Stranger Things Finale and super Liable Sky Broadband 230 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:19.720 Paring and all SkyTV, Netflix and Sky Broadband YEP forty 231 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:21.759 four year own month for twelve months in the Sky 232 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:26.039 January Sale I Love January offer ends February fourth. 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You would not be able to get 244 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:00.960 anything done in your your own life because you'd be 245 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:05.000 so overarmed with emotions all the time. Empathy emotions are 246 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:08.720 intrinsically discriminatory. You have to choose what to care about 247 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.919 and what not to care about, otherwise you couldn't function. 248 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.679 So what I think the weights that all analysis actually reveals, 249 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:20.080 and I've made statements about this before, is that in 250 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.919 terms of where to select the empathy, leftists put it 251 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.759 out in this very far concentric ring, I think it 252 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:31.240 is the centers around about twelve or ten out very distantly, 253 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.720 and that's all of humanity, all animals, all things in existence. 254 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.559 The fourteenth concentric ring is all things in an existence. 255 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.679 That's where their lo ki of care is concerned, whereas yes, 256 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:44.639 with conservatives, their loki of care is friends, family, nation. 257 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.679 When you talk about how much empathy that you have, 258 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.080 because it is a limited resource, what this means in 259 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.360 practice is not so much I care about all things 260 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.480 in existence because you only have so much. That means 261 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.440 it has to be divided by all things in it existence. Functionally, 262 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:06.159 that means I don't care about anything except one thing. 263 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.320 I care about how I am perceived by others. In 264 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.639 claiming to care about anything and everything, that is narcissism. 265 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:18.200 That's which, as it turns out, is the only one 266 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:21.159 of the dark triad traits tetrad traits that is not 267 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:26.279 negatively linked to any measure of empathy. Narcissists are actually 268 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:29.559 very good at wielding and using empathy. And by narcissists, 269 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.200 I don't just mean people with clinical pathological levels of narcissism. 270 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:38.519 I mean with subclinical narcissistic traits. What seems to be 271 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:43.039 the overwhelming factor here that drives a leftist empathy is 272 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:47.519 actually narcissism. It's self enhancement, and it's making the self 273 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.720 look good. So when the leftist answered the weights at 274 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.679 all analysis there, they weren't thinking, no, I really care 275 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.960 about everything in an existence. They were thinking, I want 276 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.440 to look good to the researchers reading this page, reading 277 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.919 my response to this, or it is what he is 278 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.320 like a good person say yes, you know yes. 279 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:13.600 And this is a common issue in statistical sampling, right 280 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.159 that you oftentimes get the answers that people think you 281 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.519 want to hear instead of what they actually think. 282 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.320 Social Yes, I. 283 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:26.039 Think it even relates to this whole this sort of 284 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:31.399 aesthetics of protest culture right where you see this constantly, 285 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.960 and conservatives make fun of these images, you know, where 286 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.440 they'll see a protest and they'll see all of these 287 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:42.960 people with cameras, you know, crowded around some sort of image, 288 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:44.600 right like that. The famous one you see in social 289 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.279 media is a burning trash can. And so you know, 290 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.679 one half of the image Macro will have this dramatic 291 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.159 shot of a burning trash can. The other shot from 292 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.639 a christ across the street shows a bunch of guys 293 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.480 with cameras standing in a largely empty city square with 294 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:01.919 a burning trash can. And they're right to make fun 295 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.519 of that because it is ridiculous. But on the same 296 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.640 to look at it another way, No, that's the power 297 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.720 of it, yes, right, Because what matters in this instance 298 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.599 isn't actually the mechanics of a protest, right, It isn't 299 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.240 actually how many people there. It is the sort of 300 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:19.839 the memetic impact of it. 301 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:20.359 Right. 302 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.160 That event becomes those images and if you can in 303 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.440 your insert yourself into those images. And we've seen this 304 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.000 over and over and over again with the ice protests 305 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.680 in Minneapolis, right, these sort of failed attempts to create 306 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.039 an iconic moment. You know, you can think of the 307 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:38.599 you know, the rather you know, rotund woman, you know, 308 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.920 standing out in imitation of that famous photo of you know, 309 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.279 the Chinese guy who has run over by tanks, and 310 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.880 of course that didn't happen, right, She wasn't actually ground 311 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.079 a pulp, and she did not become you know, one 312 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.279 of these iconic images like the students placing flowers into 313 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:56.279 the barrels of the rifle. 314 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:56.640 Right. 315 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:00.599 But you can see the attempt because again, the point 316 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.640 is not the protest. The point is to be a 317 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.039 person who is protesting and who is captured and who 318 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.039 is part of this sort of as you said earlier, 319 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:08.920 social contagion. 320 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:13.559 Yes, and the reason to do that is again because 321 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:16.119 this is something not everyone who engages an activism is 322 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:21.519 a narcissist. However, activism very much appeals to narcissists. And 323 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:26.799 there's significant research on this that it certainly seems that 324 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:28.720 the reason why let me see if I can find 325 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:33.279 this citation right here on this there's wits. Let's see, 326 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.519 they do tend to do that. People who engage in 327 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:42.000 political action are often driven out of a desire to 328 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.440 be recognized. They want to be photographed. It is about 329 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.920 gaining attention, it's about creating, yes, these powerful images. Also 330 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:53.519 because that spreads the emotional contagion that spreads the message. 331 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:57.400 When other people see something that is emotionally evocative, like 332 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.960 a sad film, well you might think, why would anyone 333 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.160 want to watch a sad film if it's spreading negative emotions? 334 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:09.559 Feeling negative emotions is inherently unpleasant. However, people report consistently 335 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.680 that when they watch a sad movie, they enjoy it 336 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:15.720 when they in fact, there's a specific study on this, 337 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:20.519 let me find it here in film where this is 338 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:26.559 Hanich and colleagues Hannich at All twenty fourteen that were 339 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.480 specifically scenes where someone was told about the death of 340 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:34.160 a friend or relative, and when people said that the 341 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:37.640 scene made them feel sad, they had greater express greater 342 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.000 intention to watch the movie again if they had seen 343 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.240 it before, or to watch it if they'd never seen it. 344 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:46.279 So there is a positive emotional experience, a vicarious emotional 345 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:51.319 experience that's gained by feeling sad negative emotions because it's 346 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:56.359 very powerful, So it is potent, a potent political tool 347 00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:59.839 to evoke negative emotions in other people. It doesn't necessarily 348 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.680 actually make them feel bad because they're feeling these emotions 349 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:04.960 from a safe distance. 350 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.559 Well, I mean, and this is something that the ancients recognized, right, 351 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:14.599 like the whole concept of a tragedy. Yes, it was 352 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:18.960 seen as both. And look, this is a much better 353 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:23.079 version of the mechanic we're describing. But you have this 354 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:27.000 idea of Catharsis, right, this sort of letting out of emotion. 355 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.599 But also this was seen as a civic act, right, 356 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:33.279 something that would sort of unify people because it was 357 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:38.240 a common emotional experience. And there's a kind of quip 358 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.440 that runs around right where it's like liberals don't actually 359 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:43.480 know things, they've just seen a couple of TV shows 360 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:45.920 and they base their opinions on the world on well 361 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:46.759 those TV shows. 362 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:50.519 Yeah, I've got a specific fighting on that as well. 363 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:53.599 Oh well good, that was just a prejudice that I had, 364 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:55.319 and I'm glad to know that there's science to back 365 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:57.519 it up. Really the only time I care about science. 366 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:03.160 But in all seriousness, right, that very much is an 367 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:06.559 aspect of you know, the cultural lefts power, Right, is 368 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:10.240 this kind of you know, cultural mean complexes where you know, 369 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.440 these common emotional experiences and I think perhaps you see 370 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.079 this the best with the baby boomers because they lived 371 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:19.640 in a much more unified culture than either you or 372 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:23.200 I grew up in. But you can almost tell when 373 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:25.799 and you know, Devin Stack of Black Pilt has talked 374 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:28.519 about this, and you know, I may disagree with him 375 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.880 on certain things, but he's completely right here where he 376 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.279 talks about the Boomer speech right where you can tell 377 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.920 in their head they're running through that moment from Field 378 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.680 of Dreams or that moment in Dead Poe Society. It's 379 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:43.119 like the TV has taken over them, has possessed them. 380 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.039 And in much the same way, right, these incredibly powerful, 381 00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:50.200 in some cases negative experiences. You could argue, there's something 382 00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:56.279 you know, similar around a prominent twentieth century as a 383 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.799 religious political disaster. Right, people speak around it for the 384 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:05.039 whichever Indian is running YouTube, but it becomes this incredibly 385 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:09.319 powerful political force, that kind of emotional outpour. But aiden 386 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:11.240 you said you had actual science to back that up. 387 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:14.079 Yeah, it's a twenty nineteen study from Haymiddal And what 388 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.200 they did is that if you've seen the memes where 389 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.319 it's very common to see particularly people on the left 390 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:24.119 do this, although I've seen I guess some people on 391 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:25.319 the right do it as well. It's not that the 392 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:26.920 people on the right don't tend to get attached to 393 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:29.720 fictional figures. Amelia is certainly an example of. 394 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:32.119 One literally me right, Ryan Goslin. 395 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:35.200 There's plenty of those as well, but you'll often see 396 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:37.599 what the left tends to do more specifically, is less 397 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.440 the literally me maybe, but it's more this character would 398 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.839 agree with my political opinions and sort of using fictional 399 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:47.440 characters who are seen as. 400 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.319 The donkey Kong says trans rights things right. 401 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:55.039