How You Got Your Political Theory | Moral Foundation Theory 

So happy John Green recommended your stuff! You totally deserve more subs your videos are top notch!

Don't mind me just leaving my mark before this place gets big. (I guess a comment once mentioned a collaboration with John Green?)

A political video with no dislikes!?!? Travis is the messiah

I have always been intrigued with this because I have pretty opposite political views as my family and I get asked all the time how I ended up like this. I'm sure it has to do with my friends influence, but why I gravitated toward the friends that I did rather than ones more similar to my family is still an interesting question.

I very much appreciate the use of The Suite Life of Zach and Cody 😂

When you talked about the “loyalty/betrayal” morality i thought about how large companies often describe their employees as “families” or “team members” and I think this is interesting because it fosters an “us vs them” mentality. “You don’t work for Burger King, you’re a part of the McDonald’s team”. Often I’ve heard people compare the mentality of large corporations and cults, but this made me think that’s because it’s literally the same methodology. Obviously a cult is most effective the more cohesive they are and the less independent thought people have. A brand is most effective when it can convince you that they are superior to every other competitor. It also made me think of “Apple” vs “PC” people or like “console” v “pc”. Idk I’m probably overreaching here but I thought it was interesting.

Patreon:www.patreon.com/CuriousTangents instagram.com/travisoctaviusg Hey this took forever because my mental health got the best of me😅 Question : How do you feel about the political situation in your country ?

From the three videos, I have watched I have decided to subscribe. You go on refreshing tangents with a cadence that is not hypnotic or sing-song-ly. I listen to all dialogue-oriented science, maths, and philosophy videos at 1.5 speed unless the dialogue is intensely packed with knowledge. I was able to retain your thoughts without drifting at 1.9 speed, I believe this from your well-worded discourse. It is great to hear a new voice in the realm of thought for the sake of thinking! I am looking forward to listening to your future thoughts!

I've started looking for more channels like this, partly trying to improve the the diversity of the people I watch but also became I want to keep learning. I see the channel is relatively new and I'm really happy I really happy I came here through John Green

I am very glad that John Green recommended this channel. Very interesting video for sure

Hi from nerdfighteria! I really like the pacing of this video - makes it easy to retain all the info :)

I like how DBZ factored well into this video. This is great work, keep it up!

NERDFIGHTERIA ARISE! Don't mind me, John Green sent me here :)

I’m going to show this to my classes today. Well done!

Came for the political science. Stayed for the brief couple of seconds of Rotting Christ concert footage. Liked and subscribed for the quality of the content.

i think when the title was "Are Politics innate" it made more sense with the video

Dude you consistently present topics with a different spin, I have never seen on YT. I watch so many video essay channel and your choice of topic and how you approach them is incredibly unique. Thanks so much for your work ❤

World definitely needs more people like you. Really happy I found this channel, if only everyone was this well informed and rational we've be living in a the closes thing we could come to a paradise right now. You look really young too, and that gives me a lot of hope for the future. Keep it up, your channel is amazing.

Hello, you wonderful nerdfighters! Glad to be here.

This channel feels very much like Crash Course to me, but more specific, and nerdier, which is exactly what I was looking for without knowing it. Thanks for such great content to consume during quarantine!

This was such a well thought out and articulate viewpoint. Thank you Travis, thank you John Green for the recommendation!! New fan

I'd figured out I was weird before watching this vid from you, But now I feel as if I have scientific proof that it's true. 😂

You can see the improvments from video to video CT, interesting subject never thought about the inate predespositions that we dont have. Really cool video

"And When the world needed him most... he returned"

Love this channel! Really interesting stuff, keep it up :)

John Green sent me and I'm so excited to be here!

All This Talk Of Individuals, And All I Can Think Of Is That One Scene In "Monty Python And The Holy Graille".

2:02 i do view things as individual ideas, but more than that i view similar things as almost the same. Substitutable, even if its not exactly substitutable, my mind will try to do so and i tend to agree with it even if it doesnt make sense. Whenever i explain this i have a hard time coming up with examples, instead i usually just explain how my eyes work when i look for something. Basically when im looking for something, any shape that looks vaguely like it seems to turn into whatever im looking for, until i grab it. Makes looking for things very frustrating. But i think this is just how my brain works. It applies to my thoughts as well.

Politics is about how we manage our society for the good. I think certain attitudes toward how we should view what is good can definitely be genetic. The progressive attitude is to look ahead at the potential good that could be realized in the future if we change our society. The conservative attitude is to fear the alteration of what they see as already good within our society. But those aren't the only attitudes. The revolutionary attitude seeks to break the fundamental structures of society because they see them as unjust, and they are confident that the replacement can't be worse. The reactionary seeks to break the structures of society to recreate a past that they see as more pure and good than the present. In America, despite the voices of activists, the Democratic party remains a progressive one and not a revolutionary one. But the Republican party has long abandoned conservatism and has full on embrace reactionary politics. This is why a "both sides" attitude is so dangerous. The Republican party is ironically a threat to the republic itself.

Your videos have a natural flow and topics are very interesting, keep up the good work!

I genuinely have loved your channel since the day I found it going through my recommendations at 3am. Every video is thought provoking and I feel like I’ve actually learned something by the end of them. It also helps that you are an awesome speaker from what I’ve heard and have a consistent flow. Keep up the great work, I see that sub count reaching 10k

Congrats on 10K!!!

nice work, again! you finally flipped the image back! yay!

came here per mr john green's recommendation. keep up the great work travis!!

This is the best video you made yet imo

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Dude you got a vlogbrothers shout out!!

A political video thats a day old with 0 dislikes? Is it real???

John Green mentioned you in his latest Vlogbrothers video!!

Have you heard of Duverger’s Law? It is the idea in political science that electoral systems like first past the post that the US has essentially guarantees a two party system.

I really like your voice. Subscribed! Keep up the good content :D

such interesting topics!

I'm immediately thankful that I was directed here

A lot of these ideas are expounded on (and originated from) Jonathan Haidt, best summarized in "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion" I would recommend lol I finished the vid and realized you cite him at the end

Great video. How feasible do you think it'd be to get CCs on these videos, and can we do anything to help?

I LOVE your content! It is so interesting and W.E.I.R.D.! :)

🤣🤣🤣 that acronym is accurate, but I am definitely weird in the normal definitions too 😆

Uuuuuuuh John Green? What? Wow. Congrats!

Am I the only one who regularly checked on the Rubik's cube in the background, just so I didn't get tricked again? A beautiful video, a very wise one. Me, personally, I'm scared of all the big ideologies and large groups blindly believing in one system or one principle without daring to ask questions about it (and maybe that's why my overall philosophy is so individual). But still, with this video, you might have just explained to me why I feel so isolated in my country: because of the conservative values it mostly tends to favour the most. So, thank you for making me realize it, finally :)

Another good video from the home boy.

Great video

This reminds me very strongly of Jonathan Haidt's book, The Righteous Mind Great vid man Edit: Made the comment before I reached the end of the vid 😂

Come here from John Hank’s vid. Hiya new subbie👋🏾 sooo I see you have The Power by Naomi Alderman. Have you read it what did you think? Haven’t really heard too many people talk about it.

is it just me or did the intro change...? thanks for the great videos, keep up the good work :)

I’m not sure how to phrase my question, I’m going to think about it and come back if I can phrase it the way I want.

I think Moral Foundations Theory is persuasive, but it is too pat. I don't think these kinds of things group that distinctly. I mean, for one thing some of them just seem made up, e.g. Loyalty vs Liberty. So there's something to that, but we need to step back from this temptation to categorize, and simply understand that there are inborn as well as learned behaviors that can influence us and emerge as, e.g. political leanings.

Your books aren't backwards anymore! Welcome back from the mirror dimension :)

Cube changes: 0 and I haven't been more disappointed today

7:41 Tío Vania

This video is god damn profound.

We missed you

The least biased political science video I’ve ever saw, good job!

A Haidtastic video.

Thanks for info I had no idea that there where often actual differences in the brain with liberals and conservatives. Thx for teaching.

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Aaaahhh!!!! Was this the treatise on Tribe? Either way, I got some bones to pick (see what I did there?): Did humans (homo sapiens) ultimately eradicate Neanderthals (hominids in the genus Homo)? Or due to interbreding events that took place around 50,000 to 55,000 years ago in the _Middle East_ (Not Europe as many would assume), was the Neanderthal line simply biologically assimilated into what we now call modern humans? Thousands of years later, humans moving into East Asia interbred with _Denisovans,_ whom at the time ranged from Siberia to Southeast Asia...and like the Neanderthals, are no longer found on the planet. Just 12 years ago, _science did not know about_ the Denisovan hominin group. Moreover, Neanderthals and Denisovans also interbred. Lets table the Denisovans for the time being. "The proportion of Neanderthal-inherited genetic material is about 1 to 4 percent [later refined to 1.5 to 2.1 percent] and is found in all non-African populations ( well, except for the ancient modern humans that bred with Neanderthals and _migrated back to Africa,_ where they mixed with the modern humans there, sharing bits of Neanderthal DNA.). It is suggested that 20 percent of Neanderthal DNA survived in modern humans, notably expressed in the skin, hair and diseases of modern people. Neanderthal DNA is 99.7 percent identical to *modern human* DNA, versus, for example, 98.8 percent for modern humans and chimps. Are we to accept the theory that this 0.03% genetic delta is responsible for so many potential human behavioral traits? I would submit that _Factually,_ homo sapiens (humans), Neanderthals and Denisovans are all the same species (otherwise we wouldn't be able to interbred in the first place). I would go further and suggest that behavior traits are more likely to be triggered by external cultural events. It would be just as easy to deduce that twins, growing up in the same household with the same family, could differ in their adult traits (politics) due to unique interactions _between themselves,_ and not due to a biological factor. I also would like to challenge the statement that our early ancestors were more Tribal than modern humans. Of course I am basing that on my own research as a college educated Scientist (unfortunately, my Science degree is in Physics). Nonetheless, I maintain the larger a population, coupled with modern communications, the * _More_ Tribalized humans become.* Additionally, science has a decent understanding of psychopaths. Studies show that psychopaths have reduced connections between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), the part of the brain responsible for sentiments such as empathy and guilt, and the amygdala, which mediates fear and anxiety. More importantly, all psychopaths are narcissistic. It is this type of person, that when armed with mass communication technology (from books, scribes, and oracles to the _InterWebs_ ) can easily manipulate the masses of their fellow humans into adhoc tribes. Adhoc meaning created or done for a particular purpose as necessary. Only psychopaths (and some sociopaths) have the uber-narcissistic-level motivational drive and lack of emotional feeling to put themselves in this position. The adhoc motive of the psychopath is individual self-actualization. (Think about it; what "normal" human would actually *_want to be_*_ a politician??_ ) All living organisms on Earth have survival firmware programming code. Human Tribal nature is part of survival firmware programming (as I have mentioned previously) at a higher level due to more sophisticated communication. It is the mortar that holds together the Maslow hierarchy of needs pyramid structure (8-stage model). Maslow broke down our types of needs into two categories: *D-Needs* (D for Deficit) are needs we are motivated to fulfill because without them, we feel some sort of longing. Without food we are hungry, without shelter we feel unsafe..etc. *B-Needs* (B for Being) are the high-level needs that we are motivated to fulfill once all of our basic needs are met. An argument can be made that (almost) all living creatures _require_ D-needs to survive. But only homo sapiens must have B-needs - once D-needs have been met. [note: I would modify Maslow's hierarchy of needs into a more modern version that includes various thicknesses of the mortar of Tribe between the layers, and exchange the "Esteem" layer with an far more accurate "Dignity" layer.] D-needs are entirely social. At the B-levels of Maslow's hierarchy, we are exponentially more socially inter-dependent than our ancestors who struggled for millennia attempting to satisfy D-level requirements. Dude, I have been typing this comment for more than an hour....let me know what you think of the above position.

Not democratic, but the others fit and I am scared. Great vid

Hi Travis. John Green sent me 👋

I wonder how this explains the north/south conservative/liberal divide in America. If it was genetic, or heavily influenced by genetics, wouldn't it be much more spread out through society?

“Humanity out competed most of humanity” - Very interesting 🤔

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Came from John Green and I’m here to stay!

I thank you for this video! I have always thought that political party loyalties seem to be strengthened by the need to surround yourself with people who not only agree with you, but that give you positive feedback/validation, which I’m sure has a psychological reward response but otherwise - to me - I couldn’t really understand the deep motivation and drive that some have in defending whatever “their side” is, especially depicting them as infallible - but the idea that it’s likely one step further - more akin to “groups = survival” and this is just our version of those same groups that humans were in 1,000 years ago, just trying to survive and perpetuate genetics. We’re just in a world now where people are simultaneously less homogenous, but more able to find those echo chambers because of technology. And by less homogenous, I just mean people’s motivations are less homogenous. Previously, likely every tribe on the globe all had similar goals. Food, shelter, the survival of future generations. Those motivations have lost the forefront as they’re “easier” to attain, so now other motivations have moved in. I am fascinated!

its always the same story, conservative bad, liberal good ¿where in the spectrum do i fall?

Oh my gosh this is og vsauce but better! I'm SO GLAD I found your channel. Thank you so much for your amazing content :)

I'm sure I've read that isolated feral children create their own languages? Can you share the studies you referenced that say they develop no language skills?

"Rich" with friends maybe.

You appear to have changed your background? Or did you just flip your image?

cool

I think what you said about Neanderthals is not quite correct. They were from Europe and maybe kinda the middle east but it is believed they one interbred with us so they are still here in that way. And two that an ice age and a lack of resources wiped alot of them out, also because they were not big into migration over long distances where homo sapiens were happy to move further. So they got south quicker

I don't need you to tell me I'm weird, I already knew it. : )

i was here under 100k suscribers

You should start a podcast

I'm not so sure that being more Democratic is equivalent to being more open. After all, the Democratic party champions government control (albeit seemingly under the noses of a great deal of Democrats) and government control means less openness or freedom. Also, those many many teens I've talked to on my writing site who lean more Democratic, are far less open and less willing to share than others in my experience.

I paused your video 5 minutes in to go find this TedTalk: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8SOQduoLgRw.html and 3 minutes after that, you cite his work as inspiration. The Ted Talk is nice for the bonus plot point graphs that show where liberals/conservatives overlap in morality, and where they are markedly different.

Who da fuck disliked ?

Every time I hear the phrase “more liberal,” I die a little inside.

Please say that you aren't a Jordan Peterson Fan...

You play into your biases a lot in this video. Do you see it?

if when the going gets tough in the US so people switch over to the Republicans during that time then why did both world wars have Democratic candidates as president? Just honest question not trying to beef anyone up.

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John Green sent me here, but a Brit I'm offended for Scotland. Scottish is not a language. Main languages in Scotland are: English, Gaelic, Scots, Urdu, Punjab, Polish... etc. Scots and Gaelic being the native languages.

I HIGHLY DISAGREE

Actually it's very likely that a person born in America will grow up speaking the language of Scotland because their primary language is English.

5:55 I feel like that would actually be a good topic for the next video. Why do we care if animals go extinct, when in the end, we're all just brains in different bodies. Sure, a lot of them are vital to their ecosystems, but these animals ( and us) would inevitably go extinct because of shifting environments. Climate change was gonna happen anyway, we just made it happen faster. (Note: I'm not trying to defend us making animals go extinct, just a shower thought I had)

Scottish isn't a languge

"Scottish" isn't a language...