Ep. 14 – The Saint
The Conspirators Podcast
The Conspirators Podcast
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | As the old saying goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. |
| 0:28.0 | Although the expression's origins are a little vague, a French diplomat named Charles Maurice de Telleron Paragord, who lived during the |
| 0:36.0 | late 18th and early 19th centuries, is sometimes credited with coining the phrase. Although |
| 0:42.2 | there is little supporting detail as to the context or what he actually |
| 0:45.8 | meant by it. Variations on the expression turn up again and again in various works of |
| 0:51.8 | 18th and 19th century French literature. |
| 0:55.0 | Only by then the meaning was clear. |
| 0:58.0 | Revenge was something to be sought slowly and deliberately and then savored. |
| 1:03.4 | Over time the phrases lived on and become part of our cultural framework. |
| 1:08.8 | Just as the very acts of vengeance it refers to have played out time and again throughout |
| 1:12.2 | history. |
| 1:15.0 | Sociologists and psychologists alike claim that revenge serves no real purpose |
| 1:19.0 | and is ultimately a self-destructive act. |
| 1:22.0 | MRI scans of test subjects and is ultimately a self-destructive act. |
| 1:23.3 | MRI scans of test subjects brains have shown that thinking about acts of revenge |
| 1:27.2 | actually activates the temporal reward center, |
| 1:30.4 | providing the person a shot of the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine. |
| 1:35.0 | And it's not just limited to humans either. |
| 1:38.0 | Revenge appears to be a common trait we share with animals as well. |
| 1:43.0 | Scientists have observed acts which can only be described as vengeful and many primates. |
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