a long time ago someone told me that life is all about balance and this is
something very important to remember as we break down the hidden meaning of this
episode of black mirror season 5 Rachael Jack and Ashley Too starring Miley Cyrus what is up everybody
this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
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be talking about Rachel Jack and Ashley Too starring Miley Cyrus I already did a video about the ending
and just talking about some of the themes of it but in this video I wanted
to talk about positivity culture all right I saw a few people mentioned this
over on Twitter and in some comments and I think that's something that is
important to discuss so if you don't know what I mean Miley Cyrus's character
actually oh and her songs and everything like that it's all about positivity and
getting this message out there like you can do it you're amazing you're great
and all that and yeah it's something that actually happens a lot in real life
but in the context of the episode like a few different things one of them is that
we find out that actually oh isn't this like upbeat super positive you know
young woman like that is a character that she plays like for her audience for
her fans right this is popular this is mainstream but outside of that she is
pretty sad lonely depressed and I saw another video on this where they were
talking about the parallels between Ashley oh in real life and the character
of Rachel so one of the things is because of this positivity when Rachel
gets from little Ashley to robot and actually to talks are into like yo do
you think follow your dreams try out for the school talent show and
do your dancing and like it's just a little montage of you know Rachel
dancing and everything it doesn't go too well alright so when
it comes to this in real life like I am somebody who is constantly trying to
find balance like those of you who don't know me I am somebody who is in recovery
from drug addiction and alcohol addiction I've been diagnosed with
depression the generalized anxiety disorder you know a wacky childhood all
of that right so like I do what it's like to have those like awful feelings
and feel like this world is such a dark place and when when I was at my lowest
so feeling depressed like when I saw people who were just like just be happy
just do it just follow your dreams and everything I just want to punch someone
in the eye so I get that all right but on the other hand like walking away on
being depressed and moping and you know having this kind of like nihilistic
outlook that doesn't really solve anything either like something I say at
the beginning of each of our videos is we talk about the problem but focus on
the solution so when I look at this like in music I see both sides in it right
so you have a character like actually oh and she's all about positivity and
everything like that but then you have other people who are independent artists
or bands and they're just talking about how awful and miserable life is so I
don't think in either one of those situations that is necessarily great or
helpful or anything like that and it's it's about finding the balance between
the two all right so like this world can be a messed up dark place and one of the
issues is is like the 24-hour news cycle like twenty or thirty years ago if
something was happening in a foreign country like something terrible which is
always happening or even here in the United States we didn't hear about it
all right like aside from like 9/11 when I was a kid growing up like I didn't
know about awful things going on in the United States this is one of the reasons
one of the many reasons why people are often more anxious and depressed than
ever before it's because we're having so much information about the terrible
things going on so like when I see somebody like Ashlee oh and you know
well the character at least spreading this positivity I'm like good good at
least there's some out there you know even it's if it's a
character these are putting out there to kind of cheer people up and motivate
people maybe that's what they need like I think about how many people are in a
household where you know they're their parents telling them they're not good
enough of or people at their school or just other people in their life telling
them that they can't do anything and they're not good enough like if you pull
your inspiration from a song like do yo thang boo like this is gonna sound corny
as hell but hum care I'll say it like back in the day when Kanye West first
came out right when he was doing like college dropout and everything like that
like I pulled a lot of inspiration from his music his newer stuff I'm not a huge
fan but I used to be inspired by his music you know what I mean like I could
relate to dropping out of school and I wanted to make something of myself even
though I didn't have that colors degree and motivated me and I like and I was
inspired by his hustle you know like some people are against you know just
motivational speakers and everything but like whatever fills your motivational
fuel tank up that's what I call it like do it listen to it like sometimes the
people in your life are so pessimistic and just against everything and holding
you back that you need some kind of outside source to inspire you but again
it's all about balance so in the part of rachel jack and ashley
- we're actually - is encouraging rachel to dance and into this talent show like
oh no no no no baby girl ah so this is where like that that culture of
positivity can absolutely backfire and be worse for you than it is like helping
you achieve your goals and this is something I learned from a very good
book on a link down in the description below it's very short it's called lying
by Sam Harris the audiobook is only about an hour and a half so it's a
pretty short book but anyways he makes the argument about how the form of wine
to spare somebody's feelings all you're doing is delaying the pain and suffering
that they're gonna go through so that's what I was thinking about
this little robot was encouraging Rachel to dance and she could do it just keep
practicing and everything like that and everybody's gonna love you and all this
now granted Rachel did get better but one of the reasons Jack was so upset and
hiding - Ashley - was because like Rachel wasn't all that good like even
with Rachel practice and all that she still wasn't all that good and this is
something that we all need to take a look at when it comes to people in our
lives on what they're doing or what they're trying to pursue like here's my
personal opinion on it and how I do it like with people in my life and
encouraging them to do something because I get it like we don't want to hurt our
friends feeling it's like something that I love more than anything is people in
my life doing something that they love and pursuing it right like even my own
son like I don't ever want to be a downer incite your kid you suck at that
right so it's like how do we do that and I think it's just being realistic
with that person - having an honest conversation with that person and saying
like here here's what I think you can improve on here's what I think you could
work on right but just blowing smoke up their bus saying oh yeah you're amazing
you're awesome like if my son wanted to be a famous musician and he came in here
like banging on my pots and pans and he's like no dude right and if he grew
up and if he was a high school student and he saved up all his money and he was
trying to get a drum set and you have getting one it wasn't that good like
what I would do is I wouldn't just say hey Dylan you suck but I would say hey
like have you thought about getting lessons learning from somebody and
inspiring him in that way but there always comes a point with any of us
where we have to know when to let go of something and just acknowledge for
ourselves like this isn't going to go anywhere and if you're a true friend in
somebody's life it's important to have those conversations with them because
one of the worst things that can happen for that person is that they go out and
they pursue something and they're not that good at it right and now the whole
world is laughing at them rather than them actually knowing the truth I think
a great example is like remember of American Idol dude I don't know if they
still do it but they would like take the worst sinners and then put him out there
and it kind of became like a thing where people knew they were bad and they were
just go on there but like when that first started like I would not be
surprised if a lot of those awful singers just had like yes men and women
in their lives like oh my god be the most amazing singer I've ever heard in
my life and then they go and they make you know a fool of themselves on
national television so that's why it's important to be honest with people about
their skills about their talents alright but again like when it comes to this
episode of I I just want you all to like kind of look at this and see if you can
find a balance like don't get me wrong I still have my moods where I gotta listen
to you know certain people who understand like my my true thoughts my
true feelings and everything like that but if I listen to too much of that
downer stuff whether it's music whether it's depressing shows whether it's like
books or whatever it is there comes a certain point where I'm just in a pity
party for way way way too long and I just need
to hear some positivity no matter what it comes from whether
it's the opposite right finding positive music movies TV shows books whatever
that thing is and I think if you don't have people in your life who can
encourage you and inspire you to at least try not saying that you're gonna
be kind of gonna become like a millionaire off of what you did but if
they can encourage you to at least try you need those type of people in your
lives because the other people there they're bad for you
alright anyways let me know what you thought about this episode of black
mirror I have some other topics that I want to talk about involving may be
striking vipers as well as smithereens and stuff there's any topics from this
season that you want me to talk about let me know down in the comments below I
was thinking about talking about the grief support group from smithereens and
some other stuff so throw me out your ideas alright but that's all I got for
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