Yéndome por las ramas a partir de un meme absurdo / Jojos, habituación y normalización

Overview

The video opens like a joke: the creator says that after “so long a wait,” they’ll explain how to change a car’s oil. Instead, they pivot immediately into a meta-discussion of an absurd “JoJo” meme—a moment where Joseph is about to get into a car, but the car inexplicably turns into a fence. The creator reacts with mock outrage, then uses the meme as the central example for their main theme: how we adapt to weirdness.

The Core Idea: “Out of Context” vs. “In Context”

They explain that when you encounter the scene out of context, it’s shocking and funny because it feels impossible. But inside the actual series, it doesn’t seem out of place at all.

This difference becomes the basis for their psychological framing, especially the concept of:

• Habituation: repeated exposure eventually makes a stimulus stop triggering the same strong emotional reaction.

Habituation vs. Sensitization

They contrast habituation with sensitization:

• Habituation: repeated stimuli become less emotionally impactful over time.
• Sensitization: repeated exposure makes irritation worse.

They offer a personal example of sensitization: gradually getting more and more annoyed by a sister’s dog barking instead of tuning it out.

Normalization in Real Life

From there, they argue that real life follows a similar pattern through normalization:

• When chaos or dysfunction is repeated enough, it begins to feel “natural.”
• This can be comforting—but it can also be dangerous.

They apply normalization to three main domains:

1) Political Level: Corruption as Routine

They claim corruption has been normalized. They share a classroom/history anecdote where a teacher jokingly referenced the idea that corruption used to be punished, and the creator argues that today scandals are often treated as routine—sometimes turned into propaganda between parties.

Key concerns they raise:

• Partisan identity can cause blind loyalty.
• Corruption gets defended as “your side” behavior and condemned as “their side” behavior.
• This dynamic blocks real collective outrage.

2) Social / Interpersonal Level: Relationships and Therapy

They argue that normalization can show up in relationships and even in therapy settings:

• People may ignore escalating communication problems, isolation, or toxic dynamics because they’ve grown accustomed to them.

They also discuss how early exposure—particularly pornography consumption among minors—can normalize violent or degrading sexual behaviors by:

• eroticizing aggression
• reinforcing skewed expectations about gender and bodies

They emphasize it’s not the sole cause, but one factor that can contribute to harmful outcomes.

3) Philosophical / “Philosophy of Thought” Level: Absurdity Becomes Reasonable

Returning to the theme of “out of context” shock, they reference a friend asking whether philosophers ever doubt their own conclusions.

They connect this to Parmenides, who argued that non-being cannot exist—therefore no change or movement can truly occur. The creator suggests:

• ideas that seem absurd in isolation can start to feel “reasonable” after exposure
• immersion in a system’s internal logic can reduce the sense that something is truly impossible

They compare this to how the JoJo fence-car scene becomes less surprising once you’re used to the series’ logic.

Closing Takeaway

The ending takeaway is that normalization can undermine critical thinking. Whether the subject is a meme, politics, relationship dynamics, or a philosophical claim, you should judge it based on what it is by:

• using context, but
• analyzing it separately to avoid blind acceptance

They end with a joke that the “Cartesian method” (analysis/synthesis) was basically the guiding approach throughout.

Highlights / Jokes / Key Reactions

• A mock “car oil change” opener that derails into JoJo meme analysis.
• Repeated emphasis that the fence-car scene is absurd out of context but “normal” in context.
• Quick personal rant: a sister’s dog barking gets worse over time (sensitization).
• A political anecdote with the vibe of: “believe it or not, corruption was punished.”
• Using the meme as a teaching tool for psychology and for critiquing propaganda/identity politics.

People Referenced (Mentioned)

• Joseph (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)
• Cepelí (spelling uncertain; likely a Caesar/Caesar-like reference to another JoJo character)
• Plato (mentioned early as part of a reaction like “what the hell is this introduction?”)
• Chas Carrillo (named in an analogy related to the anecdote)
• Parmenides
• Spinoza (suggested as a possible philosopher, but not confirmed)
• Carolina Muñoz Villanueva (author of a referenced study on porn and normalization of violent behavior)