 So the first thing you need to know is that TV shows come in two different types serials and episodics so serials are shows where every episode builds on the previous episode So there's an advancement in plot There's an advancement in characters and things change as time goes on Whereas episodic shows episodic shows are the shows that all of us as kids when we watch TV We watched these an episodic shows are shows where there is no advancement in plot Instead every episode is a standalone adventure where things happen and there's a resolution to the plot within the episode But nothing changes from episode to episode So if you're an episode of I don't know it doesn't matter what it is Dexter's laboratory Rennan Stimpy Rugrats Doug. I don't know Ed Adonetti, right? No matter what the main characters achieve in an episodic show, maybe they win the lottery Okay, maybe they get the girl that they've been seeking for the entire series Whatever happens in an episodic show it has to be undone by the end Okay, because that's how they work because episodic shows again You're supposed to be able to just watch them in whatever order it doesn't matter so there can't be advancement So if the character wins the lottery, he has to squander every single dollar he made I want to say there's an episode of Rennan Stimpy just like that where they win the lottery and then like waste all their Money or if he gets the girl he has to upset the girl in some way to get back to square one to reset everything All the progress he made So what I want to communicate to you is I think when you see as a kid all of the shows we watch all the cartoons all the Saturday morning cartoons we watch were episodic and this I will wager has a massive effect on people Psychologically. Oh, by the way, we're gonna be changing our biome here Now what I mean by that is that if you see nothing but episodic shows You it creates a couple ideas in your brain. One of them is the idea of permanence Okay, so when episodic shows Obviously nothing changes as the year goes on right at Ed and Eddie. They're the same age If you started watching at Ed and Eddie when you were eight and then you saw them until you were 18 And those 10 years Ed and Eddie did not age. They didn't move up grades I guess they don't really go to school in that show But nothing happened in their life and it creates this idea that by the same way your life is the same way Right, you're gonna be kind of an eternal kid You you're gonna be living the same life doing the same things that you do now You're gonna be doing that forever. You're gonna be the kid old Demographic this is where the kid old demographic comes from where you still have like grown men quote-unquote or grown men in terms of age numbers Still doing childish things right because they really I really think part of it not all of it But part of it is the fact that they have this idea of permanence to age and the universe and everything else But I think the even more pernicious Effect of episodic shows on people's psychology is this idea that there's no such thing as advancement There's no such thing as personal progress There's no such thing as me overcoming an issue because every issue You know again me getting the girl that is if I do that in an episodic show it has to be undone if I Let's say the character has is on bad terms with their parents, right? If they make up with their parents by the end of the show it has to be undone, right? If they accomplish something if they do anything it has to be undone and when you see that non-stop as a kid Every single episode every single show is going to have some plots some achievement some accomplishment But then some way of it being annulled and that's all you see that is going to put in your head this idea that Oh, well, I guess that applies to my life as well I can't I can't every go further than this like that the struggles that I have in my life the issues that I have They're not something that can be overcome There's something that's just part of my personality and I'm gonna have to deal with for literally the rest of my life So this is this is what I'm talking about and I think you know our our generation when I'm saying our generation I mean like everyone born within like 20 years of me frankly I mean, I mean even kids now, but I mean really just people who watch TV like episodic TV And again, this is not entirely because of episodic TV I think it's really just part of the background radiation of our culture But it's given us this sense of futility this sense of I don't go any further than this And it also creates a weird idea for what what even TV and media consumption is about right? So one thing I've talked about before right so on my youtube channel I've done many tutorials on technology topics and one thing that always struck me is weird I guess maybe because I stopped watching TV early as a kid But one thing that always struck me is weird is when people would I would do a tutorial on something Let's say last year and people would want me to do the same thing over again It's like dude. I already did this like the whole reason I did it is I'm thinking more in the serial mindset I'm thinking okay. I've done this. So if I do something else, it has to build on top of it It has to be something further and the whole purpose of getting people to watch it Is theoretically so they can achieve it and do something further right? That's a whole that's my whole point I'm not here to just do the same thing over and over again like a toy monkey like an episodic TV show like I don't know the rug rats or something like that. That's not my goal But the fact that people ask for that kind of so and of course there are reasons for me to redo stuff Like you just be clear actually I was going to record a video on the script today But what I'm getting at is I think a lot of people they look at their entertainment in terms of Doing the same thing over and over again. This is what's comfortable. This is what feels good So I'm just going to keep doing that over and over again weirdly enough, you know, there's this concept You know, it's kind of it's kind of like a Nietzsche and will will to power kind of thing where like humans like they or you know Kaczynski and what's he call it? What's he call it a power process, right? um So, you know the whole idea being that like humans in their natural state they want to like They want to kind of achieve things they want to set up problems that they can solve And they go then go on further from that and keep solving and and keep going on keep, you know Exerting their influence exerting their power and achieving things and that's the natural state of man But I think we've been reduced to a kind of a gerbil wheel where we want to do the same things over and over again When we subscribe Uh to some show or we I don't know when we watch something a lot of times we just want to see Uh the same thing over and over again. No progress. No, I don't know personal change. No anything Okay Now this is not mind you me giving an endorsement of serial tv shows because frankly, I mean this is You know, you look at stuff like game of thrones. It's more of a sci-op than whatever sci-op episodic tv is, but Um, this is just me saying I think this has affected everyone in a very it I guess it's happened for a reason like people make episodic tv shows because they're easy They're easy to make just plug and play, but I think the effects that it's had on people Uh in concert with everything else in our society I think it's pretty bad and I think it's important to be aware of it Like if you're doing the same stuff if you're on a gerbil wheel Consuming the same product doing the same stuff wanting the same things that you've already experienced If you're one of those guys and this has been me I will admit this has been me if i'm playing a video game I used to play 15 years ago trying to feel the same enjoyment And I just don't feel it and the reason you don't feel it It's because you're not supposed to be doing that like you're supposed to be better than that now Like that's the point um, so Anyway, that's just some stuff to think about um, so I don't tell me what you think, uh, but that's that's my view and I think it's not just tv I think it's a lot of things in our culture probably other things that aren't coming to my head now You can say them, uh, if you think of them, but uh, once you're aware of it I think that's a good part of the problem and you can start thinking about okay. How can I be better than that? All right, that's it. See you next time