Episode 58: Pedestals and Guillotines

第58集:基座和断头台

Hidden Brain

社会科学

2017-01-17

21 分钟
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It's inauguration season, which means balls, parades, and celebrations. We may love the pomp and circumstance, but there's another, darker side to our psychology, too. Whether we like the new president or not, human beings have a strange and contradictory relationship with power and celebrity. We idolize the rich and famous, but also enjoy seeing them fall from their pedestals. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore this paradox: from Hollywood, to the White House, to the forests of Tanzania.
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  • Welcome to Los Angeles, the celebrity capital of the world.

  • It's a city that conjures palm line boulevards, sprawling mansions, luxury cars at the center of all the glitz, Hollywood movie stars aren't the only ones here.

  • Star gazers are drawn here, too, like paper clips to a magnet.

  • And point your attention to the left, because we are seeing Beverly Hills for the first time.

  • On the left hand side.

  • Wow.

  • Some big houses down there, right?

  • With the muse act blaring, a handful of people on a celebrity tour peer out their van, hoping to glimpse the homes of LA's rich and famous.

  • The guide points out Gwen Stefani's house and a clump of bushes behind which she claims is Quentin Tarantino's home.

  • She pulls up near Katy Perry's compound.

  • Do I have any Katy Perry fans aboard?

  • Fireworks.

  • Okay, well, here's her house.

  • Look up to your left and you'll see the awning.

  • The red awning.

  • You can't really see it's red there, but we are right beneath her house.

  • She actually owns the entire corner here.

  • And look at her view.

  • It's amazing, isn't it?

  • One of the tour's most popular sites is the home of Kim Kardashian.