THIS video will DISTURB you

oh my oh my this is disturbing indeed what is disturbing well picture it there's somebody sitting at a computer and scrolling through YouTube and all of a sudden they see a thumbnail among many other thumbnails but this one catches their eye and what is it it's a very high contrast uh black and white picture of a person with a shocked look on his face looking like he has terrible news and next to it is the emoji of a head exploding you know the the exploding head emoji and in big bright yellow letters it says oh no exclamation point and all of a sudden from just a very visceral level that the person said oh no what's wrong with this and then they read a title that says this will disturb you and they say oh my goodness it's going to disturb me and they click on it and that person is you because if you got this far that's what happened to you you saw a thumbnail and a title that basically said this is going to disturb you and I guess you chose to be disturbed so what I want to tell you is that that is happening constantly on this platform called YouTube that's where we are right now and basically you are training the algorithm to train you to be in a con state of fight or flight um and to have it surface content to you that will actually play upon your most basic survival instincts to keep you in a state of vigilance and hyperintensity I don't know if that's fun uh but that's what's happening okay so my title was not clickbait because I'm telling you something that indeed is disturbing perhaps not the type of disturbing that you were looking for but I think it is disturbing ing that you are an adult with Free Will and and we're not going to get into a philosophical discussion whether or not you have free will okay you're an adult with free will and you saw something imagine if you uh were walking down the street and you saw a a hole in the wall and a sign above the hole in the wall said stick your hand in here and something shocking will happen would you like like to see maybe like a a bird will come and like Peck your hand or maybe there'll be an electric jolt or something like but but that's essentially what you did um now you're going to say well I couldn't get physically hurt by clicking well you couldn't get physically hurt but I don't know who knows what you would see or hear or and I'm not even talking about like shock or Gore that would like traumatize you I'm even saying like I'm talking to you right now I'm actually I have good intentions I'm not trying to mess with your brain right now I'm trying to actually tell you the truth but imagine if not imagine if think about about how many times you've clicked on something and there's somebody who's telling you totally crazy stuff with an agenda that's not for your benefit and you're getting sucked into it and you're listening because it's like well what there's something disturbing there's something threatening there's something I I need to resolve this conflict okay and here's what I want you to understand is that unfortunately um even normal content creators are falling into this trap because they have to compete or they feel the need to compete um with this whole sea of information that's just constantly just being uploaded uh every single second and so the content is getting more and more and more clickbaity and Catering more and more and more to the lowest common denominator and we as a popular are becoming more and more wired for survival mode which is why discourse has I'm I'm not even talking about political discourse I'm me talk you're talking about any type of discourse philosophical discourse if people are even still into that today everything has devolved to us and Them why because us and them again is survival it's like don't talk to me about the nuances of any concept just tell me Friend or Foe which side do I have to stand on to be safe where are where are my people standing and that's it just tell me which side to stand on so that I'm safe and that's how everything has become now so yeah it is disturbing this is probably the most disturbing thing you're going to hear today is that you clicked on this knowing that it would disturb you but I hope that this is as it too much to hope that this is the last thing that you click on for the for the reason that it'll disturb you and that maybe next time you'll resist and when you see clickbait that is trying to entice your your your limic system and causing you distress and try and and giving you the false promise that by clicking you will resolve that distress um you know what if I would start sending you junk mail you know by snail mail with like a bright hot pink envelope with black letters on it that said open this and something scary will happen would you like to receive such mail and yet that's what we're clicking on hundreds of times a day thousands of times I mean I I don't know your viewing habits and and I just want to make sure you understand I'm not moralizing here I'm definitely not lecturing you because I'm also experiencing the same thing and I've also caught myself clicking on things where I'm clearly being manipulated into clicking and and I don't like that that I'm doing it and I don't want it for anybody else so it's just a friendly public service announcement from your friend Chase Tab and you know hopefully we can be a little bit more thoughtful and mindful and maybe even you know what I'm going to do right now I just decided I'm going to go take a walk around the block just and I'm going to leave my phone at home I'm going to just walk away from devices and take a walk around can you do that too let's all do that right now let's take a walk around the block I'll see you later