This podcast by Gladwell enlightens the concept that doing good makes it feel acceptable to do bad after, and when does doing good leading into doing more good. They give excellent evidence used from real life situations that occurred such as the artist of the painting Role Call not being accepted as a member of the most sought after art gallery, Prime minister of Australia being shammed because of her gender, and even the relationship between Germans and Jews.
Many years ago in the 1870’s a artist named Elizabeth Thompson creates a masterpieces called “Role Call”. A painting that portrayed a Scottish Army in line that was detailed down to every single wrinkle in the Army’s uniform of around 300 men. Her painting got put into the most known art gallery in Europe, right in gallery 2. Where the most fantastic highly respected pieces go. And this being the first respected female artist and first female artist to be put into this gallery. The next year Elizabeth tried to join the art gallery club and they did not accept her in, for the fact they didn’t want to change their ways and traditions by letting a female in. Then they put her artwork in the black hole section. The section that is almost as bad as not even being put in the gallery hung up on the ceilings.
This is the art galleries response to doing good once. They accepted her art working being the good thing they did. Then they turned her down from joining the club and moved her art into the worse spot in the building. The members thought it was not going to be that bad of thing to do since they already accepted one her pieces in the gallery. This also shows that people who support something such as a female becoming known for being artistic, are also the ones likely to bash on the female community eventually and shame them. Gladwell also speaks on that when he talks about the experiment done on Barrack Obama supporters, the study showed those who are most likely to vote for Barrack are the same people who tend to use racial slurs. This also being a form of doing good can lead making it thing its acceptable to do something bad now.
In this podcast Gladwell said a quote from a journalist who did a writing on Elizabeth Thompson, the journalist said, ” real genius has no insurmountable obstacles in the English Art world.” This quote meaning no matter what or who you are everybody is capable of being great in the English Art world. Even though Elizabeth was a female she still made into gallery 2 and became a world known artist who even had more famous painting then “Role Call”. I find this quote very inspiring and think this should relate to everything in the world. I believe anything a man can do a women should be able to do it aswell, same thing goes for different races aswell. Anything a white man should do, an African American should be able to do with the same and succeed the same. I believe in today’s world this is still a problem we have to deal with.
Although it took me about 4 times of listening to this podcast start to end I found it to be actually very open minded and inspiring on real life problems. I think this podcast goes over the problems of what we are doing wrong to make everybody equal and even give evidence from 1874 with Elizabeth Thompson to 2013 with Julia Gillard former Prime Minister of Australia. This podcast is very insightful of the information they used and relating it to the problems. Although the speakers voice is sort of mono tone and not my style of podcast voice being its more of a gentle voice that was hard to pull me in. This podcast has great factual information that I think could help people change the ways the thing and turn doing good thing into doing even better things and even thinking about doing bad thing.
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