A Utopia

In modern globalized society, most of the people are under the influence of others, though others didn’t intend to affect one another. In the podcast ‘Revisionist History episode 3: The Big Man Can’t Shoot’, Malcolm Gladwell mentions Wilt Chamberlin, one of the renowned basketball player as an example of who made a stupid choice because of other’s eyes. Wilt Chamberlin was perfect basketball player except for one defect that he was poor at shoot free throws. In 1962, he could fix his only flaw by making his shots to underhand shots, which guaranteed the much higher rate of success and made him the basketball legend. However, he switched his shooting style back again, marring his splendid career; it was because others he was aware of the way others are looking at him. He renounced to be excellent because people remarked that underhand shot seems like a granny and looks silly, and there were no many basketball players who use underhand shots. It’s about the ...

In the podcast 'Revisionist History Episode 1: The Lady Vanishes', Malcolm Gladwell talks about ‘moral licensing’.  Moral licensing, what I've never heard of before listening to this podcast, is the phrase explaining the phenomenon that the good deed is always followed by the   misdeed,   because people use their good behavior as a permission to do something wrong. During the talk, he mentioned 19th-century female painter Elizabeth Thompson and 21st-century Australian PM Julia Gillard to demonstrate the moral licensing. Though they were renowned for their work at first, they got to encounter the contempt and fierce attack of misogyny. He also mentioned Barack Obama and Donald Trump (though their name was not directly mentioned, everyone can easily infer that) as an example of moral licensing, saying their good deed -that they’ve voted for the first US black president- was followed by their misdeed –voting for the president with extreme nationalism. The first imp...