 In this video we're going to be talking about the real problem with drama channels but we're also going to talk about why we need them and we're going to use a little bit of evolutionary psychology. What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I try to do is take different topics going on in the YouTube community try to see what lessons we can learn from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being and something I love is psychology. So if you're into any of that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and if you're not yet make sure you follow me over on Twitter and Instagram at the Rewired Soul. So before I get started I just want to have a talk I just mean you just a quick talk just kind of a little bit of a disclaimer something that has just been reignited in me is my love for psychology. I'll let you guys in on a little secret if you want to help keep me accountable but like I want to go back to school so bad and pursue a PhD in psychology I absolutely love it I've been binging books lately but anyways I like blending pop culture with psychology and lately my views have sucked but I don't care because it makes me oh so happy to do this. So if you're into that hang around if you don't like me blending pop culture with psychology I'm sorry that you got to go but I'll miss you alright thanks for hanging around as long as you did. So let's dive into this topic I mean I'm reading an amazing book right now it's by Jonathan Haight alright he's written three books I'm on his third book and I just love that man two things before jumping into this video first one is it's not about anyone specific it's about everybody it's about me it's about you it's about drama channels it's about commentary channels it's about news organizations it is about human beings alright the second thing is in this video we're going to be talking about quite a few things we're going to be talking about bias we're going to be talking about gossip we're going to be talking about human nature but most of all we're going to discuss how our brains will try so hard to defend our beliefs and I'm also going to talk about how being objective is an illusion alright so do me a favor watch this entire video then down in the comments below just read through the comments see how many comments you can find that are based on objective facts because my guess is it'll be very very few but I just want you guys to start noticing this and start noticing it within yourself as well like it's something that I'm trying to pay attention to a lot alright first thing that we're going to talk about is the concept of morality morals we all have our own moral compass and everything and drama channels commentary channels everything like that they're known as keeping other people in check like we have to do that the problem is that we are all moral hypocrites okay we think we all think that we're good people we all think that we're the hero we're always doing the right thing and something I'm just trying to teach people is that we just need to understand that about everybody alright so a great way to kind of help you understand this conversation is by showing you something from one of the other books I just finished called the righteous mind but here are some moral matrices okay so there are six foundations of morality okay there's care and harm there's liberty and oppression there's fairness and cheating loyalty and betrayal authority and subversion as well as sanctity and degradation okay so each of these things we all imagine rating these things on a one to ten scale we all hold each one of these morals to a different strength alright so check out this one for liberals okay so as you can see the huge thing for liberals is care and harm alright they do not want other people harmed okay this is the biggest thing that they care about that's the thickness of that line the liberty and oppression alright so they do not like people being oppressed alright next fairness and cheating but as you move over and you see these thinner lines like for example look at authority and subversion I'm thinking about doing a whole video on this because it explains a lot about liberals because we don't like authority alright now what's really interesting what's mind-blowing if you're a liberal like I am check this one out okay conservatives are actually more equal when it comes to morality alright when surveyed they care about all of these things but as you see the care harm moral is not nearly as heavily weighted as it is for liberals alright so anyways like why does this happen why does this happen like something that we need to understand is when we're looking at the bias of drama channels when we're looking at bias of commentary channels or news organizations whatever it is we all have to realize like there are so many factors that come into play one they have found that there are genetic components to which way we lean on our opinions of things alright the second one is our life experiences for example I was born in central California grew up on the beach for a while and then I moved to Las Vegas all pretty liberal so I was kind of on this path of being liberal right now somebody who was born in the south or you know even in the Midwest had way different experiences than me so when you look at drama channels and everything like that we need to understand that each person hopping on in front of this camera has had their own life experiences that have formed their opinions now what we're going to be talking about is why we need drama channels okay this is huge so let's talk about evolution real quick and evolutionary psychology so we didn't have language why we didn't just like turn into human beings just have language so why did we develop language well a few reasons one of them is many evolutionary psychologists believe that this is a form of grooming alright so grooming you know how like you know monkeys and stuff like pick like stuff out of each other's hair and everything like that well they made that feel good like it feels good like if you get a back rub or something like that or if you're like significant other they've even done studies were like even if a stranger does it but we're programmed to feel good when people you know quote unquote groom us well we developed language to do social grooming alright so this is one of the reasons that evolutionary psychologists believe that we started spreading gossip and talking about each other alright but part of the reason we needed to do that was for survival like it's so important to kind of realize where we came from as humans so back in the day we had to constantly judge other people we had to write that could have been a life or death situation if somebody took advantage of us the whole tribe might have taken advantage of us or somebody from a neighboring village took advantage of us right so we needed people to say oh stay away from that person stay away from this person dot it out of that so that's actually part of who we are so like when when we have drama channels even though it seems stupid and silly like we're acting on our human nature like for example when you see all the drama that happens in the beauty community right like look at the James Charles incident it started because James Charles promoted somebody else's vitamins and taught he got mad so taught he's like instinct was she needs to tell people this is a bad person you need to stay away from that person or remember drama get in the OG drama get in with many MUA and Laura Lee and everything like that like this is just part of human nature now where's the problem like where's the problem with this the problem is cancel culture and mob mentality because as we discussed all of us have different morals that have been shaped by different life experiences even part of our genetics and everything like that right part of human nature is to share gossip here's a good example too right have you ever found out information you've had this urge to tell people right as humans were wired to do that the problem is that we're constantly judging other people and we are all such hypocrites okay they have done so many studies that just show that we are not we are not these great people so one of the studies was weeks before the study they had people kind of rate themselves on where they were morally right do they do the right thing do they do the right thing when nobody's looking right so weeks later they brought them in for an experiment and psychology experiments I love them because they mess with people and they really find out what's going on right so what they did was they put somebody in a room and they said that they had a partner a teammate right this other teammate didn't really exist okay and basically they would have tasks and the person that they were studying was able to take the easy task or the hard task but the researchers told the person whichever one you choose your partner will not know we're gonna tell them that it was picked at random all right so the person they were studying they got to see whether or not they took the easy task or the hard task all right and remember they also checked to see how how these people thought they were how morally amazing they were all right well what they also did was they wrapped a coin in a plastic bag to see if people would try to flip a coin to make that decision all right and what they found would blow your mind okay so most people who did not use the coin they gave the other person the harder task like an insane amount of times right the people who rated themselves like you know really high on the morality scale they often turn to the coin but they also cheated quite a few times where they would say oh okay heads means I get the hard tasks tails means they get the hard task but they figure out a way to justify it so this is where confirmation bias comes in we have what Jonathan Haight calls an inner lawyer all right which is constantly trying to justify our gut feelings our intuitions the thing we want it will justify to any means and listen I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic if any of you out there in recovery you know what I mean our mind will try to figure out any way the inner lawyer will figure out any way to make sense out of spending money on drugs instead of rent or taking care of our kids right or going out and partying instead of going you know to bed and waking up for work in the morning right so us addicts and alcoholics we have this extreme inner lawyer that's just screaming at us because it comes along with the physical and psychological dependency but they've done other studies about this kind of rationalization that we try to use right so they they did one study where they gave people IQ test but they were like fake IQ test and they told certain people like oh you did really bad on this right and then the people that were told they did bad on this intelligence test were more likely to figure out ways to say that this test was bogus right but the people who were said that they were smart they didn't say jack they took another group right I think this was a different study where they took avid coffee drinkers all right as caffeine freaks and they gave them a study that said all of the negative effects of coffee those people were more likely to do research to find reasons why this study was not accurate right like we look we look like have you ever heard something and then you go Google to find the opposite so you look for the answer that you want we're primed to do this all right it's human nature we're constantly trying to justify our actions this is why I said down in the comments below just take a look at the comments take a look at the comments on any video you want all right and just ask yourself is this objective like we're constantly pointing fingers like one of the things happening in the drama community right now is pointing out bias and everything like that you're right we're all bias being objective is a myth the only objective thing is the laws of physics all right what comes up must come down everything else literally everything else is an opinion like here's the thing like even scientists who know about these biases like they have to keep themselves in check this is the entire reason why there are peer reviewed studies so my closing thoughts on this like just chill out and have conversations watch the drama channels you like watch the commentary channels that you like have your opinions but just know that we are wired to justify everything that we think we're always think that we're right we'd never like to think that we're wrong and we will do anything we can to to make ourselves believe that we are the morally righteous person all right the reality is when it comes to morals people just have different compasses all right but anyways I love talking about psychology I hope you do too but yeah like I said make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter at the rewired soul and if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if you really like this video share it with a friend all right anyways that's all I got for this video if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring the notification bell and I want to send a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel 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