Tim Urban

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics · 20 Feb 2023 podcast

That's to expel, expel whatever, because it's the reaction when something is potentially a pathogen that might harm us, right?

Feces, vomit, whatever.

But they did this interesting study where people,

who in two groups, the control group, you know, was shown images of, and I might be getting two studies mixed up, but they were showing images of like car crashes and like disturbing, but not disgusting.

And the other one was showing like, you know, rotting things and just things that were disgusting.

And then they were asked about immigration.

These were Canadians.

And the group that had the disgust feeling pulsing through their body was way more likely to prefer like immigrants from white countries.

And the group that had been shown car accidents, they still prefer the groups from white countries, but much less so.

And so what does that mean?

It's because the disgust impulse makes us scared of sexual practices that are foreign, of ethnicities that don't look like us, of still xenophobia.

So it's ugly.

It's really ugly stuff.

This is, of course, also how the...

Nazi propaganda with cockroaches and, or it was Rwandan was cockroaches, you know, the Nazis was rats.

And, you know, it's, it's specifically, it's a dehumanizing emotion.

So anyway, we were, we were, we were, we were talking about COVID, but I think it does, it taps deep into like the human psyche and it, and it's, I don't think it brings out our, I think, like you said, I think it brings out an ugly side in us.

Yeah, well, first of all, both of these, we think of an echo chamber as like a group maybe or even a place, but it's a culture.

It's an intellectual culture.

Sure.

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