You tell me.
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[People clapping]
United - wait, ready.
"United we win, divided we fall",
It was a phrase that was commonly used during World War II,
it was used by the Allies
when they decided to take arms against the Axis
which was composed by the Italians,
the Germans, the Japanese,
and years later we would have our revenge against them
when we decided to put ketchup on pizza,
when we decided to put creme cheese on sushi,
and perfected the german bratwurst
when we turned it into "salchipulpos".
You're welcome, world, you're welcome.
"United we win, divided we fall" was a phrase used
to create union and understanding in the world,
because when the world unites
to do amazing things, it turns out great.
Just like Fridays For Future.
This organization which is warning us about this problem
we have, which is global warming.
Or what about when the Mexican national football team plays
we all put on our shirts, we literally put on our shirts
or harder cases,
when we decided to break the Guinness record
of people dancing Thriller.
Again, by Mexicans, you're welcome, world, again.
But there is something which unites us more and that's hatred.
We love hating, have you noticed?
We're always looking for new ways to hate,
be it the ending of Game of Thrones,
or you're Luis Miguel's father and you did a lot of harm to your son,
a classic,
or you didn't tell your siblings where the corpse of your father is.
It could happen to anyone.
And I want to introduce you to my friend, the accordion
because I don't know everything. Actually, I do,
but there are words that are difficult
because I would say we love hating.
And in Mexico,
you either like soccer or you go for America.
there's no inbetween.
But really people get so fired up
and they're always attacking poor America
well, I really don't care about that
The stadiums get packed, not to see your team win
but to see America lose.
We hate so much
- and this is one of the topics I want to talk about today
the virtue of the mighty American eagles, just kidding
It's not true, it's not true.
I'm here to talk about polarization,
political polarization
Alright,
By definition this is polarization:
extreme positions in ideologies.
But hey, don't worry
a lot of people must be getting scared and thinking
that I'm going to behave like a Jehova's Witness
Knock on their door, tell them what to think and what not
and the PAN already exists, I'm not interested in doing that too
but sit tight because at the end there will be picture of kittens
wearing human glasses, not yet though
There are two types of polarization
élite and mass
the élite one refers to the people's ideals
sorry, to those of the political parties
and the mass one refers to the people's ideals.
Right now we're experiencing a bizarre
combination of the two
because the political parties, I don't know if you noticed,
are stealing the people's ideals in order to get voted.
And this isn't even the worst, further on I'm going to tell you
what the worst in all of this is.
Political polarization comes from a logical fallacy
known as a "false dilemma"
in which you a situation occurs
and only two options are introduced
as though they are the only available ones
leaving out a third or a fourth option
which could solve the problem
but we ignore them
and usually these two options are extreme.
I'm going to make a very clear example:
let's say I go to a restaurant and I ask what's on the menu
and they say: There's two things there's this lettuce
which was grown by Triqui children
and it's going to give you diarrhea, ok?
Or we have these hamburgers we call artery-blockers
that are so rich, so delicious
yes, they take away two years off your life expectancy
but who wants to live to 80 anyway?
And that's what this is all about
because political polarization is like the Jonah Hill of politics
the man knows no middle ground.
But let's make some examples
let's see what is happening in the world
let's examine the clearest example there is
the United States.
In the Unites States there are two political parties:
the democrats and the republicans
and we live in a time when Obama with the democrats
was in charge and he did very well
however, the republicans got their revenge
and this man won.
You know,
Donald Trump won by polarizing his country
he promised to erase absolutely everything that Obama had done
and he did that while riding an eagle
waving an American flag with a rifle in his hand
and exploding Mount Rushmore.
This picture is real
don't ask me how I got it
it's a real picture, in case you were wondering, yes
The United States did a 180° turn
in its politics.
And if you know someone who says
they turned their life around by 360°
this person is right
because they were stupid, they had a complete turn around
they reached a point where they could have been smart
and then went back to being stupid
because that doesn't happen.
This joke was stolen from me by a damn fucking pacheco
thanks Milton, don't worry.
Let's examine other cases, the case of Brazil
Brazil, hey
con Lula da Silva
who was a leftist president
and what do you know it didn't work very well
therefore, that they went to the extreme with Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro, I'm gonna show like this
like the "Bronco" is dancing samba
it's a perfect example, let me tell you.
Let's move on to the UK
UK
My god, UK
the leader of the conservative party
and person who left the car window open
Boris Johnson this person
divided his country by saying
"I want the UK to exit the EU"
and this person is the Prime Minister.
These things are actually happening in the world.
What about Mexico?
You know what Mexico is like, right? You know
I don't need to explain how things
work around here.
But something I would really like to tell you
is that everyone is extreme
this hasn't been clear to us
everyone is extreme
and we don't understand that any extreme position
is dangerous
except him!
Except that, they're all dangerous.
And here comes my first question:
No really, what's up with Boris Johnson's hair?
It looks like they squeezed an orange
and left it like that, that could be it.
My real question is:
What is the real danger of political polarization?
Let's not forget that we're talking about
élite polarization and mass polarization
we said that they're gaining weight
they're conquering people to conquer votes.
but that's not the big issue
I'm breathing heavily because it gives me courage.
Because we're split into two groups, people
they're splitting us into two groups
and we're not even noticing.
because they are obstinate in this
they want to make us believe that you're either with one or with the other
so we don't understand what's real.
You are beginning to understand what the point is now, huh?
The worst offender is Twitter.
It's Twitter.
I don't know if you've ever been on Twitter
You could put anything on Twitter
"Tangerines are delicious."
Doesn't matter!
Someone is going to show up to tell you
"AH, you think tangerines are delicious? Mussolini loved tangerines.
Do you like that, you damn fascist?"
This is where we're at.
It happened to me.