Name: 【TED】Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure (Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure)
Uploaded: 2014-03-05T11:48:06.000Z
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Goering was Hitler's second in command in World War II,

Goering fancied himself a collector of art.

He went through Europe, through World War II,

stealing, extorting and occasionally buying

And what he really wanted was something by Vermeer.

Hitler had two of them, and he didn't have any.

a Dutch art dealer named Han van Meegeren,

for the cost of what would now be 10 million dollars.

and Goering was captured, tried at Nuremberg

Then the Allied forces went through his collections

and went after the people who sold it to him.

And at some point the Dutch police came into Amsterdam

Van Meegeren was charged with the crime of treason,

He said, "I did not sell a great masterpiece

I also need alcohol and morphine, because it's the only way I can work."

And then the charges of treason were dropped.

There's a lot more to be said about van Meegeren,

who's pictured here being interrogated at Nuremberg.

Now Goering was, by all accounts, a terrible man.

when he was told that his favorite painting

he had discovered there was evil in the world."

but it had a different origin, it was a different artwork.

It wasn't just him who was in for a shock.

Once van Meegeren was on trial, he couldn't stop talking.

And he boasted about all the great masterpieces

which was viewed as Vermeer's finest masterpiece, his best work --

people would come [from] all over the world to see it --

It was not that painting, but that painting.

it lost all its value and was taken away from the museum.

I'm a psychologists -- why do origins matter so much?

to our knowledge of where something comes from?

Well there's an answer that many people would give.

would argue that the reason why we take origins so seriously

is because we're snobs, because we're focused on status.

if you want to show off how rich you are, how powerful you are,

it's always better to own an original than a forgery

because there's always going to be fewer originals than forgeries.

that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists.

is we don't just respond to things as we see them,

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【TED】Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure (Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure)

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