The Herd Mentality

[thegoonist]

this dude is hilarious. respect.

[daPlumber702]

The industrial revolution saw the greatest improvement in the lot of the ordinary man/woman/child arguably throughout all of history. For people anywhere to think it right to be upset that a certain few made much more than the rest is lunacy, it was because of those few that the rest were able to get where they are today. Risk and Reward.

[iridescentsquids]

@daPlumber702 "For people anywhere to think it right to be upset that a certain few made much more than the rest is lunacy"

I agree.

But I also think there is such a thing as exploitation, unfair, and corrupt practices.

Granted, there are plenty of examples of people rigging the system in all ranges of the income spectrum. But corrupt investment bankers deserve no more sympathy or respect than exploiters of the welfare system. They just steal billions of times more money and wear suits.

[SIMKINYX]

not just a pretty face.....sexyyyyyyyy!!!

[EWil313]

The Herd Mentality. I thought it said the "Hard Mentality."

[EliteGhost001]

@EWil313

you can also read the title?

[MrHellyeah2010]

"Those lions just keep on eating the zedbras. Racists."

Almost pissed my pants when he said that XD

[Anandaxp]

safety at the expense of others... thank you neighbor!!! I LOLd so much

[sixwingproductions]

why mention froid he thinks all sons subcontiosly whant o mate with there mother.

[kilagotleb]

@sixwingproductions fuck your spelling sir. its Freud, Subconciously and want

[Boredpersons55]

Lemmings. Safe?



[DrReidFanatic]

awww... he has the cutest smile ever!!!

[msPanicMoon]

Stigmitization and Altruism. If you want to really want scientific proof for it, look up these. Altruism is a being putting itself at risk to help others within it's 'group'. what this group is can change; it could be a family, a country, the entire human race- and anything inbetween. Stigmitization is excluding those froms groups who would not help further the group, only benfit. I'm sorry, I really can't include it all- but if you want to learn more, read up on Altruism and Stigimitization.

[ClickAtOwnRisk]

Stijn, in which the ij is pronounced as I, or the y in fly.

[bobbinator37]

its because people only have a 50% chance in a one on one fight of winning, but if you have a group, you can all help win the fights of each group member, unless they have their own group, in which you must band with several other group to form a clan, which would defeat the enemies of all the groups in it, untill you have giant armies fighting wars.

[pizzachickenyeah]

haha, Im Dutch, and on the Stijn, i really almost died laughing. Say; Stine.

[AnonymousNI]

@pizzachickenyeah

Since when does J sound like a double I ? You dutch need to sort yourselves out....

Only joking, I'm from Northern Ireland so I can't really complain about other accents, ours is horrible :( If you havn't heard it search for UTV Earthquake and you'll hear it.

[pizzachickenyeah]

@AnonymousNI no, the IJ is considered as one letter, but since you cannot use it on computers, we simplify it to IJ. It's a sort of y with dots.

[ezemdi]

"Luck" in the battlefield is believing that the other guy will get hit by the arrow.

Certainly it won't happen to me, I'm ME!

[nayab99]

one of the best......

[m00niee]

WE'RE ALL GONNA JOIN YOUR GROUP, THEN THE WORLD WILL FALL.. MOHAHA..

[sandplay2]

We dutch guy's are everywhere (on youtube)!! I'm feeling totally 'Herdy'!

... and i'm not sure i'm okay with that... :-p

Nice Show! Greetings from that great LITTLE country overseas.

[drwhoeffect]

stijn? Stine. But say the "i" a little sharp. Like aye, or aeye...

Yeah.

[neroxtreme1380]

Nice shirt.

[mbrsart]

/ɛm bi ar zart/ There you go :P

I think that humans are hard-wired to need a leader, and have an inherent need to belong. That's what explains political parties, organized religion, and so on and so forth.

[evilmangoeater]

safety at the expense of others!

[tehownzors]

I don't have a mic cord on my tummy, I'm not in the 'in' group.

[tehownzors]

You need to share!

[miesrah12]

@tehownzors NO!

[Joepie60]

it's stijn pronounced as styn as y in ymca or ei

[spaws83]

Awww . . making learning fun . . love it. Information always sticks better when humour is thrown into the mix. Gold star awarded. :)

[lchigoe]

A nuke finishes a group.

[just4thefunny]

Herd mentality, basic human instinct, I see it everday in friends and other in school and other places. Humans are pack animals wether we like it or not. The reasons we do it, is the same as all the other animals who does it, not always for the sake of surviving but still, its close to all the same reasons.

Most people would say no to this, some because they live with the illution that humans are better than animals in all ways(Wich is far from true). But all in all, we are still animals =)

[ArmanCortez1]

@just4thefunny oh...stop sounding like we are all just primitive naked monkeys. While what you say is literally true, the fact that we can RECOGNIZE what we infact are, puts us a step above all species in existence(the ones that we have discovered of course). Its called a consience and rationality, something no other animal has. ALL animals act on instinct, we do too BUT, we are different because we can choose NOT to act on instinct but rather logic, and we have the potential of transcendence.

[just4thefunny]

@ArmanCortez1 I see your point, but even tho we are able to act based on logic we still use alot more instincts than most people think and would like to acknowledge. And even tho we know why we react in certain ways, we still do it and people today clearly lack the ability to think for them self and act individual. And even tho we can choose, people choose not to because they feel the need to act like everyone els.

[ArmanCortez1]

@just4thefunny And that my freind....is why we need to trandscend our minds and body's to a higher form of sentience and sophistication. In my last comment i closed with "we have the potential of transcendence". We are on the brink of effectively utilizing nano technology, and we are getting ever closer to inventing AI and melding the weak flesh with machine and science. Did you know that there is a bionic arm prototype that can be moved by an amputee with just a mere thought!!!!

[ArmanCortez1]

@ArmanCortez1 CON Imagine the possibilites once we know how to utilize nano tech with our bodies and learn more about melding tech with our bodies safely. In the future it might be possible to install a computer in your brain so we effectively boost our mental power by a large fold. It would be like being able to read a book as fast as you can turn the pages, or solve an equation in milli seconds. Coupled with nano tech we might become biologically immortal. Instinct will be a thing of the past.

[just4thefunny]

@ArmanCortez1 Yes do know that! But I still think all humans are a bunch of

stupidasslazygoodfornothingbum­s. Reason being that, even tho we have all this wonderful technology we still manage to mess everything up, or rather, cause of this wonderful technology we mess everything up. All we do is make life better for ourself and then use the technology made for the benefices of man, to use as a starting ground for weapons. FUCK THE SYSTEM!, I know, but still this have happened many times before.

[stfwho]

I have a star on my belly =D

[poketfulopigs]

its because were social animals and we all have a fear of rejection, which gives us the need to belong.

[1234iamtoocool]

you are a stain.

[jimbo525SE]

I disagree about your industrial revolution thing. There is a reason that workers from all over the world came to America, and there is a reason that farm workers came from rural areas to work in the cities. They didn't do it to get crapped on by their employer. If you want to know why they formed labor unions, than I think it is because they took for granted the positive things that capitalism brought them and only attributed the negative to capitalism.

[tmac9938]

@jimbo525SE YAY JIMBO! you're a rare breed these days. someone who gets capitalism.

[mongolenpup]

While I'm at it I'll just continue the list of successful human activities...I've never seen a gorilla throw away/kill their offspring...never seen a giraffe torture another giraffe...never seen a beaver beat the shit out of his mate...never seen a dog cut his mate's clitoris of, like it's practised in Africa...and the list goes on and on...succesful my ass.

[nehorlavazapalka]

@mongolenpup then you don't know about the animal kingdome, humans are more cooperative and peaceful than any other mammal species..that's a statistical fact

[mongolenpup]

@nehorlavazapalka pff ^^...experts have calculated that in the 20th century approximately 9.400 people were killed per day by government. That's 341.076.000 deaths in total in the 20th century alone...and counting...

[nehorlavazapalka]

@mongolenpup out of 10 billion that were born and died in the 20th century

that's 3% mortality, stone age man had 10%+ mortality.......EU and USA some 1% or less in the 20th century

have you seen any numbers for apes and dolphins? I guess it will be far higher

[jimbo525SE]

@mongolenpup but have you seen the elephant cut off the foreskin of a newborn son? 

[mongolenpup]

@jimbo525SE 3 times a day...

[mongolenpup]

@jimbo525SE and I've seen yo momma eat chickenshit

[jaguarangel2000]

Love your stuff!

[southsydney]

something about yielding to the will of a group is somewhat unnerving to me. sigh, sometimes i just want to become a lighthouse keeper and escape everyone. are there any completely solitary jobs?

[Phoenix5555522]

Even more perplexing. People who fit in want to stand out, naturally if you want to fit in it must be because you stand out.

[MongoIndyleo]

Why would you get into a debate about religion on this video? thats just kinda stupid...i dont care if ur aethiest(or agnostic...whatever) but dont go around telling people that all of their religious beliefs are "a fail"...just respect other people beliefs

[southsydney]

@MongoIndyleo no, if a belief has no grounding in reality it should be savaged into the dirt. it's tantamount to delusion.

[MongoIndyleo]

@southsydney "sighs"I have never gotten into a fight about religion, nor do i want, or intend, to. But I would like to say that it does have grounding. I was online looking up random stuff, when i saw an article by Steven Hawkings,i read it, and it basicly said "The origin of something is nothing" so i read the comments. One person said "if the origin of everything is nothing then whats the origin of nothing" but at the end of the day we r never gonna know, so dont flame other people beliefs ok?

[southsydney]

@MongoIndyleo honor killings in the middle east. would you allow the belief that they are just to persevere? if so please dont ever become a policy maker

[mongolenpup]

The Herd Mentality has to be in the top 3 reasons why this species has been and is going to continue to fail...next to human's mindblowing arrogance...pathetic.

[nehorlavazapalka]

@mongolenpup fail? look, we are the most sucessful primate species ever..so, where is the fail?

[mongolenpup]

@nehorlavazapalka We think we're evolved beause we can build an airplane, travel underwater, paint a painting, write a poem etc. but we're barely out of the jungle as a whole...I mean the WHOLE human species. We still operate out of the reptilian brain..fight, or flight...kill or be killed. We have the capacity to live in harmony and peace, but we choose not to. Instead we gather up in a group "herd mentality" and declare war on some other group, or try to dominate and control another group

[nehorlavazapalka]

@mongolenpup yes, religion is an über fail, but it is a natural thing which emerges from evolution and physical/mathematical laws............the enthropy of our world is just to big for us to not commit murders and wars..... It would require a lot of intelligence and effort to create a peacefull civilization, much mjore then you think.

btw. our euroatlantic civilization is the most peaceful culture that has ever existed, by statistic

[mongolenpup]

@nehorlavazapalka but more importantly...I would like for you to explain to me how we're the most successful primate species...I've never seen a gorilla commit genocide, sucide, mass murder, warfare etc...successful?...how?

[nehorlavazapalka]

@mongolenpup I've never seen a murder or a war... what I've seen is gorilla fighting to death on TV

gorilla population before humans - 1 million? now..? 100 000 thousnad?

human? 7 billion

[mongolenpup]

@nehorlavazapalka I think the fail is religion...religion destroyed any meaningful progress of humans.

[racoonknux49]

@mongolenpup yeah... you kinda pissed me off there. (I'm Jewish.)

[thefinnlord]

He's wearing a wire!

[crazydaisy08]

Alright...where's the sneetch machine? I'm getting my star removed right now!

[Elephantintheroom01]

You come up with more complex explanations for a sympol idea.

Richard Dawkins references mathematical research to explain the best strategy. It turns out its usually a mix of retaliation, societies and prober-retaliation. This ultimatly means that you may join a social contract or 'heard' for strength & protection.

[racoonknux49]

@Elephantintheroom01 learn how to spell "simple","proper",and"herd(in this context)" and maybe more people will listen to you.

[Elephantintheroom01]

@racoonknux49

So your saying that even if i'm right, a few spelling errors will prevent you from learning it? I think that is what your saying...

[Coombsdrew]

@Elephantintheroom01

You spelled so much wrong there, I wonder why you got voted up..

[Elephantintheroom01]

@Coombsdrew

I'd rather have a post bad at spelling than one bad at logic.

[noobler9]

oh hey that's how he sounds so clear, he uses a microphone clipped under his shirt!

[navysealltblue]

Durkheim

[mandamk]

OXYTOCIN!

That's my answer.

[Fight4Privacy]

It's also called the hassle free zone, as soon as we step out of it and start asking questions of our reality we get bitten by the sheep dog in this case we get ridiculed by others for saying or doing things that are not "normal"

[boogaloo80]

Spot on! One of the ways people are controlled!

[germanviking86]

I learned not to do that when I asked for help, and realized that the person next to me is just as screwed, and this came about when I dwelled around my problems, and then all of a sudden I got a message from my friend trying to help, he was a smart man, but knew very little on how to help me out. It was then on and from there, that I lived only by my intuition. If something didn't feel right, if someone sounded like they lacked sense, if something sounded too good to be true, I avoided it.

[insanasciurum]

Everything I needed to know I learned in kindergarten. "You need to share." "No!" Yeah I'm still workiing on a few of them,

lol

[slashman1428]

Nietzsche, Plains of Zathura

[nostalgichero]

University of Colorado. Mascot: Ralph the Buffalo. We are the Buffs. Everything is based around buffaloes. And their slogan to get more students? "Join the Herd."

[Phoneius]

would it be St-eye-j-en?

[quuaa1]

Was it just me that wondered what this video was about halfway through?

[gabbz006]

atually, existentialism has alot on the "herd" mentality. soren kierrkaguard and nietche[sp?..i know i fucked his name up..lol]

[OldDaughter]

it's Nietzsche :p

[bevscorner]

Racists lions. . hmmm. . . . Does that mean that racists are less evolved than non-racist, open-minded people who tend to be more liberal? lol lol

[fakegjfkler]

I think stijn == "stiyn" since the j has a y-sound.

[MrAdamSir]

...and I really enjoy your videos. It' a shame that you don't have more viewers. You have my shameless plug come my next video.

[MrAdamSir]

Riddle me this: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the sherlock holmes series felt obligated to give the murderers and thieves a compelling backstory that would lead to the reader to become empathetic for the wrong-doer. In society today do you think that public sentiment plays a role in the courtroom/our justice system?

[MrAdamSir]

Have you seen/read All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarden? I saw the stage adaptation and it was life changing. Im surprised you didnt comment on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, or why gangs still thrive.

[CarribeanPlague]

I'm quite sure it's pronounced like "stain", it's a Belgian name.

[TheDeadGentleman]

Quite impressive, you might be on to something there.

[sachiperez]

Ok, that was not as much fun as I thought it would be. I'll never write first again...

[z1freerider]

Well, it's a lot more fun than trying to write last. THAT I will never try to do again.