Welcome. I'm Connor Beaton, and this is The Man Talk Show, Training for Men and Answers for Women.

Today on the show, we're going to talk about a little bit of a different subject that I have seen really sort of running rampant in recent events, and it's something that I've wanted to talk about for a while, which is the dangerous rise of social shaming.

You know, I wanted to talk about this because as I have watched some of the current events

unfold and I've watched the commentary in media, on social media platforms like YouTube and

Instagram and Facebook,

I've noticed that more and more social shaming is being used as a tool of conformity.

And social media is really being used as a means of trying to get individuals, platforms, groups, organizations, companies to conform to a very specific narrative or dogma. And here's the deal. Shame is a very interesting emotion, right?

Shame is not only a repressive emotion, but shame is one of the

emotions that we as human beings have historically and evolutionarily evolved to try and avoid

the most, right? So shame is one of those things that we just do not want to experience at all,

end of story, period. Like if I gave you the option of just never experiencing shame again,

you probably take it in a heartbeat, right? Most of us don't enjoy it. And, you know, some cultures

have gone so far as to evolve systems and expectations and

rules and sometimes even laws to avoid feeling or experiencing or seeing shame. So like,

for example, in Japan, it was very common for men who were samurai if they failed their master or if they

brought shame upon their house, or if they brought shame upon their families, or if they

failed a mission, it was very common for that samurai or that warrior to actually embark on a

journey of sorts, or a ritual, I guess, is a much better way of putting it, a ritual of what was

called Sepuku or Harikari harikiri and this literally translated to

abdomen or belly cutting and so it was a form of Japanese ritual suicide and disembowelment

and it was originally reserved for the samurai but was also practiced by other Japanese people later on.

And this was a means of restoring honor for themselves and their family when they had failed in some way, shape, or form to fulfill on their duties.

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