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B1 中級 英語 22:26 Educational

Freedom of Choice - Mind Field (Ep 5)

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[pleasant music]

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- [sniffing]

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Ah, nothing like bacon and eggs in the morning.

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It's a hearty meal that holds you together for the whole day.

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It's a combination so obvious that it's been around

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for as long as both foods existed.

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Humans naturally loved these foods together,

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so they became a staple of breakfast.

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Or did they?

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What if I were to tell you that the traditional combination

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of bacon and eggs isn't part of our natural history,

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but is instead a corporate conspiracy

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orchestrated by society's true puppet masters?

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It isn't a breakfast for champions.

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It's a breakfast for sheeple.

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[electronic music]

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♪ ♪

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We think that a lot of commonplace things

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are the way they are because of collective free choice,

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when in fact, sometimes,

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one or two people alone

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made a decision and created something

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that is now taken for granted as part of society--

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just part of life.

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Here's the real story behind bacon and eggs.

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It all begins with Sigmund Freud.

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Or rather, his nephew, Edward Bernays.

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Bernays is credited as the "Father of Public Relations,"

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the product of a time when the world

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had become just small enough

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that you could manipulate a lot of people at once

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because of the way that advertising, news,

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and radio could reach a large number of people quickly.

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Bernays took advantage of mass media

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not with the intention to inform,

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but with the intention to control.

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In the 1920s, Ed Bernays asked a doctor

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who worked at his agency whether a breakfast should be

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heavy or light, and the doctor pretty much said,

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"I guess heavy would be better."

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Bernays then had that doctor

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get 4,500 other doctors to confirm that.

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- All of them concurred that a heavy breakfast

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was better for the health of the American people.

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- Then, Bernays lobbied newspapers

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to publish that all these doctors were saying

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you should eat a big ol' breakfast.

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But he wasn't doing this to improve public health.

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He was doing this because Beech-Nut Packing Company,

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a major supplier of bacon,

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was paying him to do it.

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- The sale of bacon went up,

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and I still have a letter

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from Bartlett Arkell,

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president of Beech-Nut Packing Company,

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telling me so.

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- So we collectively, as a country,

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agreed that bacon was our breakfast meat of choice.

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But we didn't actually make that choice at all.

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And that's just breakfast.

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Our lives are full of decisions that we think

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we make of our own free will.

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But do we?

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[dramatic music]

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These days, our markets are inundated

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with products and choices.

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But is having many choices good or bad?

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[dreamy electronic music]

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♪ ♪

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Most people say they like a lot of choices.

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But do they really?

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We took our cameras and a few pounds of jelly beans

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to Venice Beach to find out.

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First, we invited people to pick

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one of two flavor choices.

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- Yeah, good.

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- Yeah, I'm happy with it. Yeah.

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Thank you.

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It was an easy choice to make.

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I chose it 'cause I wanted something fresh in my mouth.

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- I like it--I like lemon and citrus and everything like that.

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Good taste. I'm happy with my choice.

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- Most subjects were content with their selection

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when it was a choice between two options.

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But what happens when we offer more choices?

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Will the subjects be just as happy with their decision?

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- I see.

04:19

Not licorice...

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Okay. Can I do more than one? Or just one?

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- Oh, my goodness.

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Mmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, I'm kind of regretting not trying a fruit one.

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Because with jelly beans, it's more--

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fruit is more natural to me.

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Like, I probably should have gone

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for my first choice, raspberry.

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Maybe I would have been happy.

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- There's, um--I mean, there's a lot to choose from.

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I'm gonna try one?

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- Okay. Marshmallow.

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- I don't know. Uh...

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You're always questioning, like,

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"Did I make the right choice," right?

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Like, initially, I wanted to try pineapple,

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