Jordan B. Peterson's Blog, page 3

At the O2 in London Today

7:30pm. Get the last remaining tickets here - https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/events/

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post At the O2 in London Today appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

The Postmodernist Drinking Song

In the face of Postmodernist intellectual stupidity, the best thing to do is laugh. Hence The Postmodernist Drinking Song.

The Postmodernist Drinking Song is based on an old English folk song, The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham, by way of a 1960’s British pop group, the Scaffold, whose variant Lily the Pink reached number one in the UK singles chart in ’68 (https://shorturl.at/btRZ). Our version was partly inspired, as well, by the brilliant idiocy of Monty Python’s The Philosophers Song, which celebrated the drunken shenanigans of the greatest thinkers of the Western tradition (https://shorturl.at/korUZ).

Postmodernism is a school of thought, increasingly dominant in what still passes for the modern academy, that famously rejects “grand narratives”—“collective myths that never had a reality,” as certain philosophers have it (https://shorturl.at/fMO46). Equally famously, however, the same thinkers turned, post-rejection, to the murderous blandishments of the Marxist story, which was in turn based on an even longer tradition of Luciferian arrogance and bitter resentment. No grand narrative--except, of course, that of power (with a nice dollop of immature hedonism tossed in, just to sweeten the pot).

Our Cast (in order of appearance):
Jordan B Peterson thoroughly-masked resentful Taco delivery boy and heroic Antifa activist
Random far-right cat (well-petted)
Unknown green-haired narcissist
Unknown trucker convoy participant
Michel Foucault puppet of Satan himself
Various victim-children puppets
Mikhaila Peterson enemy to vegans and far-right daughter
Commie pig
Dave Rubin far-right comedian
Douglas Murray far-right journalist and piano prodigy
Jacques Derrida that old joker puppet
Zuby far-right rapper and women’s powerlifting record holder
Jonathan Pageau far-right Old Testament prophet and Frenchman
Michael Malice whatever the hell he is
Konstantin Kisin far-right dangerous Russian
Unknown blue-haired beautiful woman
Ben Shapiro squeaking horribly
Gad Saad reprehensible far-right purple-haired professor provocateur and evil Jew
Robin DiAngelo puppet and demented-denizens-of-the-corporate-world charmer

Lyrics by Jordan B. Peterson
Video written and directed by Skutch Tully
Puppet design by Nunavut John
Puppeteers: Nunavut John, Jack Bride
Cinematography by A. Sertian Ukrainian
Visual effects by Will Dano
Executive producer: Safeer Qureshi for SPG Media
Song produced by Skutch Tully and Christian Anderson
Mixed and mastered by Christian Anderson

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post The Postmodernist Drinking Song appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

Thought Economics: A Conversation with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Interview by Vikas S. Shah MBE on Thought Economics

“The world,” writes Dr. Jordan B Peterson, “can be validly construed as a forum for action, or as a place of things.” It is this distinction between the physical (a place of things) and metaphysical (a forum for action) that typifies the difference, as far as we are aware, between us and other species.  We are hard wired through our biology (as Dr. Peterson notes) to understand: (1) what there is, (2) what to do about what there is, (3) that there is a difference between knowing what there is and knowing what to do about what there is and (4) what the difference is.  Perhaps another way to understand this would be to argue that we are meaning driven – it’s not enough for us to what there is, we need to know why.

As society has moved through the renaissance into modernity, the questions of why (typically the domain of theology) moved from the arts to science, the preciseness of the latter arguably unsuited to such philosophical questions.  The primacy of overtly scientific approaches to understanding life has come at a tremendous cost; in some ways we see the world in shades of grey rather than in full colour.

For many thinkers therefore, the pull of the questions of meaning are too strong to ignore. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist and the author of the multi-million copy bestseller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.  He is one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals, and I caught up with him to learn more about how we can find meaning in a complex world.

Q:  What does it mean to have a life well-lived?

[Jordan B. Peterson] A life well-lived means that you spend a substantial amount of time addressing the troubles of the world—trouble with yourself, your family, your community… Everyone has a sense that things are less than they could be, and everyone is affected by the suffering they see around them – and it seems to me that lays a moral burden on us that can’t be avoided, and that the only way to rectify this burden is to confront it, and try to do something about it.

People inevitably find that the worthwhile things they’ve done in their life—the things that give them strength and forbearance and a certain amount of self-respect—are acts of responsibility that they have been undertaking in the face of serious problems.

Q: What are your views on society putting happiness as its only goal?

[Jordan B. Peterson] Making happiness the key pursuit in life is just hopeless. It’s just not a pursuit that’s going to fulfil itself. Life is already complex enough to make us anxious, painful, disappointed and hurt: that’s not a pessimistic viewpoint; it’s the truth.

My experience has been that it takes very little time to talk to someone, so that if you really listen to them, and get below the surface, you’ll find out how many truly difficult things they’re dealing with on a day-to-day-basis.

You do see people in rare periods of life where they’re comparatively carefree- but that’s not common, as far as I’m concerned.

The idea that impulsive gratification and ‘happiness’ are going to rectify life’s problems just strikes me as naïve beyond tenability, and so it’s no surprise that life is just a constant disappointment for people.

There are studies about the use of Facebook that show that the more people use Facebook, the more depressed they seem to get – and at least one of the hypotheses behind this is that everyone curates the best of their lives on Facebook, and you can understand why.  It looks like one big happy advertisement for an indefinite number of perfect lives- but that’s an illusion, a polite illusion.  You don’t want to see a picture on Facebook of one of your friends and their partner having a violent or even verbally violent argument. It’s just not what we share on there.  We choose to keep that stuff private; but it does have the negative consequence of making Facebook reality seem much more positive than it really is.

Q:  What is the consequence of making money and celebrity our idols? 

[Jordan B. Peterson] if you don’t place any emphasis on the development of character, or any belief that character is a reality; If you don’t believe in the utility of courage and truth as the means of making your way through life; then you’re left with – well – celebrity.

People are status conscious, and believe that wealth can provide not just security, but the sorts of experiences, I suppose, that would be commensurate with ‘happiness.’ Economic privation is of no pleasure to anyone, but the evidence suggests, unfortunately, that once you roughly earn a lower middle-class standard of living, additional money you earn beyond that has almost no effect on your quality of life.

Money allows you to do things, to embark on projects, but there isn’t any evidence that excess money past a certain level has any positive effects on ‘happiness’ or general wellbeing.  Once you have a middle-class existence, you have almost all the primary luxuries.

Money can’t solve many of the problems that truly plague people.  It can’t solve the problems in a relationship between a husband and wife, beyond the narrow economic front.  It can’t straighten out the relationships you have with your children—in fact, it can make them worse.

Q:  How can we feel that we matter as individuals, that I matter?

[Jordan B. Peterson] The first thing we can notice is how much trouble we could cause if we act like we don’t matter and cease to take care of ourselves, and the people around us.  That causes the irresponsible lifestyle that is predicated on the delusion that nothing matters. That leads to a tremendous amount of misery.

You need to attend to the sound of your own conscience and you’ll discover—quite rapidly—that there are problems in the world that are personally relevant to you and which bother you.  You can find your destiny, in some sense, in those problems. They bother you for a reason.

You can develop a vision that will enable you to confront the dragons of life, to find the gold that’s there, but you have to notice where the problems are, what’s bothering you, and then take responsibility—knowing that if you have a problem, and if a problem bothers you, that’s actually destiny calling you.

Sometimes that can come not only in the form of a problem, but an ambition; but generally, ambitions are associated with the desire to solve a given problem – when they’re not shallow and linked to status climbing.

Everyone can look around in the world and see there’s something that needs to be done either on a minor scale in their own live, or on a larger scale if they’re sophisticated enough to manage that.

Look; if I treat myself like I don’t matter, then I have a terrible relationship with myself.  If I have friends, and treat them like they don’t matter, those friendships won’t work.  If I have a loved one and treat her like she doesn’t matter, that relationship degenerates.  If I treat my community like it doesn’t matter, then it falls apart….

From a practical perspective, we can look at some isolated facts: Life is short, and we’re each one speck of dust among 7 billion individuals, on some isolated little rock, on the edge of the galaxy. How could anything possibly matter? It might be, therefore, that you’re feeling justifiably nihilistic and hopeless, from one rather limited perspective, but it might also mean that it’s quite comforting for you to believe nothing you do matters, because it means you can get away with anything and there’s no price for it.

Q:  How can we find the strength to have difficult conversations?

[Jordan B. Peterson] We need to have a more rarified and realistic view of life. Who the hell wants to have a difficult conversation? Unless you’re narcissistically motivated to win the argument (which is a dominance problem).

So many issues in life are unbelievably complicated—and it’s very difficult, cognitively and emotionally, to think these things through. The only thing worse than thinking things through is not thinking them through. When we don’t confront situations, we muddle through, fight and make poor short-term, impulsive decisions.

I learned years ago, partly as a clinical psychologist, and partly through life itself that there’s no escaping difficult conversations. All that happens is that the unspoken situation gets worse, the longer you leave it.

Sometimes, conversations are unbelievably stressful—people get upset and sometimes they won’t talk to each other for weeks (plus it’s hard to come up with a real solution for many things in life)—but the alternative to peaceful negotiation, no matter how stressful, is tyranny or slavery.

Q:  How can we confront those we don’t agree with?

[Jordan B. Peterson] If you violently disagree with a person, what you think they’re saying, or standing for, you have an opportunity. The more different the other person is from you, and the more you listen to them, the more likely you are to learn something shocking and necessary.

These conversations provide an unparalleled opportunity for growth.  First of all, you find that, generally, the other person is a lot more like you than you’d like to think – and you’ll also find that they’ve thought through their arguments (even though you might regard them as prejudicial or unfair).  They have their reasons for thinking the way they do, and that makes the world more complex, because it doesn’t fit your simple ideology.

You’d have to be a fool not to think that people have valid complaints about the way nature and society treat them, or the way they’re treating themselves. It’s not unreasonable to figure out that people have genuine burdens, but that’s not the issue. The issue is what you do about it—and becoming bitter, resentful, cruel, resented and prejudiced is not helpful. It makes the situation (often already intolerable) worse.

Personal responsibility matters.  The radical left will tell you all of life is arbitrary, and it’s true, in a sense. People have all sorts of unique privileges, obstacles and disabilities. The world’s resources are so unequally distributed that it’s a constant existential nightmare, and it’s easy to turn that into a criticism of existence itself… but an attitude and actions grounded on that observation will just accelerate the original inequality into something that looks like hell.  You need to act courageously, confront your obstacles, and speak truthfully.  There’s no guarantee that it will work, but it’s the best bet.

Q:  How did you choose the path that has led you to public life?

[Jordan B. Peterson] Back in the 1980’s, I decided to tackle the problem that I thought was most difficult to me; the great gap between the Soviet Communist movement and the Western Capitalist movement.  I always thought if you could understand a problem you might be able to come to some resolution of it.  Intermingled in that was the problem of Nazi Germany, which I was a totalitarian response to looking at the world.

I was curious: There were these other ways of looking at the world—national socialist and soviet communist—was there any difference between those viewpoints and our viewpoint, or was it all just arbitrary game playing?  I concluded that it wasn’t game-playing, and the West especially had specially and uniquely emphasized the divine sovereignty of the individual, and the importance of the individual voice.  This held true theologically, metaphysically, philosophically, psychologically and biologically. It was apparently reflective of something extraordinarily deep about the structure of the world as a whole.

The idea that the individual is the locus of a kind of divinity is true; there’s no better explanation for the way the world lays itself out, for good or for evil.  Once I figured that out (or concluded that, let’s say) I spent a lot of time arguing with myself. It took me fifteen years of thinking to get this idea straight in my mind. It was not an easy conclusion to come to. This extended reflection had a profound effect on me, and I wanted to teach other people what I had come to understand (partly to observe the consequences). So that’s what I did at Harvard and at the University of Toronto for twenty-three years.  The course based on my first book, which was called Maps of Meaning was very popular, and considered influential. Then I started to broadcast on TVO, a small Ontario-based Canadian public television station (to reasonable acclaim, given the scale of the operation). Then I started to play with YouTube, because I thought, ‘well, there’s obviously somewhat of a public market for this.  What happens if I make the content acceptable to everyone?’  The technology was there, and I was curious about it, in itself, as I’m curious about everything (which is a very dangerous way to be). I put these videos up on YouTube, beginning in 2013, and they started to accrue a lot of views—long before I got involved in the endless political controversies of my recent life.

By early 2016, I had a million views on YouTube (which isn’t overwhelming by YouTube’s standards) but it’s still 20 stadiums full of 50,000 people. It’s a lot of people.  Since then, I’ve just been experimenting and expanding that channel.  My podcast was derived from the YouTube videos and has more listeners than the YouTube channel has views.  I’ve also been writing for the Postmedia Network consortium, which owns about a hundred newspapers and magazines in Canada, and of course I wrote 12 Rules For Life, which had a huge impact. I also completed a series of lectures on the bible in 2017, renting out a theatre (just just out of curiosity, to see if people would come and listen), and they all sold out and have been watched by 10 million people on YouTube, and listened to by more as podcasts—so I definitely plan to continue the Biblical lectures.

I’m trying to communicate on a large scale; it’s very rewarding, but also hugely daunting.

My channel has 100 million views, and if you count-up all the chopped-up videos that others’ produce it’s probably nearer 400 million.  Let’s say that’s 100 million people (or even 50 million) a substantial proportion (who are every sort of person you can imagine) could be violently opposed to what I’m doing and cause a lot of strife and misery along the way; and that’s very stressful… and that includes a tremendous number of journalists. I’ve certainly had more trouble with journalists than with any members of the general public I’ve ever encountered.

It is said that you shouldn’t build your house on sand, but on a rock. If you build your house on sand then the wind blows it away—and there will be wind—and so I was looking for a rock that a house could be built upon, and as far as I can tell, at least for me, I found something I couldn’t undermine (and I’m pretty good at undermining things). I thought, ‘well, here, I can tell other people what I concluded, and see what they think, and maybe it’s wrong, in which case I should discover that and fix it—or maybe it’s correct, whatever that means, and then people really need it. The evidence seems to suggest (and I can say that without exaggeration) that people need it far more than I would have possibly imagined

This Podcast Will Polarize You – And It Should | Matt Taibbi | EP 392

Dr. Jordan B Peterson sits down with author and journalist Matt Taibbi. They discuss his early career both in journalism and professional basketball, his time in the U.S.S.R. learning Russian and publishing a successful gonzo-inspired newspaper, and his breaking coverage of the subprime mortgage bubble. They also examine the state of the world today with Russia and the U.S. military industrial complex, the upcoming presidential election, and the dire necessity for alternative news sources.

Matt Taibbi is an award-winning investigative reporter and one of America’s more recognizable literary voices. In 2002, Taibbi began work as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. There he won the National Magazine Award for commentary. He is best known for his coverage of four presidential campaigns, of the 2008 financial crisis, and the criminal justice system. He has written ten books, including four New York Times bestsellers: The Great Derangement, Griftopia, The Divide, and Insane Clown President. His book, I Can’t Breathe, about the police killing of Eric Garner, was named one of the year’s ten best books by the Washington Post. His latest book about media division, Hate Inc., has been hailed by everyone from Joe Rogan to Publishers Weekly, and called “The best explanation of media behavior since Manufacturing Consent” by Glenn Greenwald.

Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8

- Sponsors -

Birch Gold: Text "JORDAN" to 989898 for your no-cost, no-obligation, FREE information kit.

Shopify: Get a $1/ month FREE trial with full access to Shopify's entire suite of features: https://shopify.com/jbp

- Links -

For Matt Taibbi:

Racket News https://www.racket.news/

On X https://twitter.com/mtaibbi?ref_src=t...

- Chapters -

(0:00) Coming up
(0:32) Intro
(1:21) Professional sports in Europe
(4:47) In the domiciles of the former Soviet Union
(7:07) The Moscow Times, the eXile
(10:15) Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalism
(11:47) The loss of the narratively-interesting journalist
(13:45) Noam Chomsky
(14:29) The Russia-Ukraine conflict, expansion of NATO
(18:54) Who benefits from the proxy war?
(24:55) If they’d given Trump the Nobel Peace Prize
(28:49) The lack of an anti-war movement
(29:55) Campaign reporting, why Trump was such a disruptor
(36:24) Hilary Clinton, red flags for the singular pursuit of power
(38:33) Why small business owners vote for big business candidates
(41:17) The degree of blindness was staggering, “the most experienced insider”
(43:40) RFK Jr’s campaign manager, a groundswell of frustration
(46:37) Heyday of the Rolling Stone, reporting on the economy
(50:00) The 2008 collapse explained
(56:43) Should more people have been prosecuted after 2008?
(1:00:20) The rise of woke capitalism, false contrition?
(1:04:53) Insane Clown President
(1:06:53) First impressions of Trump from the 2016 campaign trail
(1:09:16) Manipulation or leadership?
(1:16:28) The issue with cops, stats-based policing regimes, and ethnic relations
(1:23:03) Hate Inc. and audience optimization
(1:28:47) The Munk Debates, facing Malcolm Gladwell
(1:35:09) The Twitter Files

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post This Podcast Will Polarize You – And It Should | Matt Taibbi | EP 392 appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

Was Egypt the Land of Milk and Honey? | Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 15

Thank you for joining us as we journey through the great book of Exodus. And thank you very much to the DailyWire+ crew for having the vision and generosity of spirit to make this Exodus seminar freely available to all who are interested. Perhaps you might consider a Daily Wire+ subscription; it's a bastion of free speech. We have great content there with much more to come. Click here to learn more: https://bit.ly/3Q0lXj7

Jordan and the scholars finish their reading of Exodus, reestablishing the covenant and uniting the Israelites in their vision of the promised land, restoring law and order. This episode also includes supplemental readings from Leviticus.

Episode One will be available on YouTube indefinitely, serving as the gateway to this enlightening exploration. Episodes 2 through 17 will be available for a limited time, so be sure to watch as the remaining episodes release each Saturday.

- Sponsor -

Hallow: Try Hallow for 3 months FREE: https://hallow.com/EXODUS

- Chapters -

(0:00) Coming up
(0:35) Welcome to Exodus
(1:33) Intro
(23:07) Numbers 1 : 1-3
(30:49) Numbers 10 : 11-13
(1:17:06) Numbers 10 : 14
(1:17:18) Numbers 10 : 28-36
(1:19:57) Numbers 11 : 1-31
(1:34:14) Numbers 11 : 32-35
(1:35:17) Numbers 12 : 1-8
(1:37:33) Numbers 12 : 9-16
(1:48:02) Numbers 13 : 1-3
(1:48:29) Numbers 13 : 16-33
(1:51:18) Numbers 14 : 1-24
(1:55:00) Numbers 14 : 25-45

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post Was Egypt the Land of Milk and Honey? | Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 15 appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

A Prison is Being Constructed Inside Your Brain | Glenn Greenwald | EP 391

Dr. Jordan B Peterson sits down with author, journalist, and political commentator Glenn Greenwald. They discuss the war on information: how social moralism, religious rhetoric, conceptual safety, and false compassion have been used and propagandized to reshape the western world into a good versus bad, red versus blue polarity. They also explore the human need for meta narratives, the basis of morality, and the case for God in a world that offers nihilism.

​​Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, author, and former constitutional law attorney. His original hit blog was a springboard into writing for Salon and the Guardian with a focus on national security issues. In 2013, he published the now iconic Snowden documents detailing global government surveillance by the U.S. and British governments. In 2019 Greenwald again broke leaked documents, this time for “Operation Car Wash,” which shone a spotlight on the corruption of the Brazilian judicial system. He would later detail his work in a series of books such as Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Brazil and No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8

- Sponsors -

Shopify:
Get a $1/ month FREE trial with full access to Shopify's entire suite of features: https://shopify.com/jbp

Tax Network: Take the first step toward resolving your tax debt!
http://www.TaxNetworkUSA.com/Peterson

- Links -

For Glenn Greenwald:

On X https://twitter.com/ggreenwald?ref_sr...

Watch System Update on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@GlennGreenwald

- Chapters -

(0:00) Tour dates
(0:25) Coming up
(1:04) Intro
(2:02) Rachel Maddow, the American Left
(5:15) Defending a Neo-Nazi
(8:41) The illusion on free speech when paying consequences
(16:45) Milo Yiannopoulos was propelled by censorship
(18:55) Taking down our RFK Jr. interview
(28:58) 911 and the clamp down of civil liberties
(32:48) Free speech is necessary for us to solve global problems
(36:45) George Orwell’s unpublished preface
(38:31) The internet was created with the spirit of Libertarianism
(43:23) The conceptualization of good and evil
(47:32) The danger of hubris in religion
(51:46) Douglas Murray, the need for ethics grounded in a metaphysical narrative
(56:34) Abraham, the manifestation of the animating spirit
(1:03:56) From atheist to believer, why Greenwald changed his mind
(1:08:27) Writing on politics, changing his stance
(1:17:00) Prohibitions against “wrong think” are silencing the majority opinion
(1:21:55) Edward Snowden, the real government behind the one we know
(1:25:58) Manufactured fear has allowed establishment control to expand
(1:29:59) The loss of the genuine left
(1:37:56) When you’re thinking is backed by every major news outlet and corporation, are you really a rebel?

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post A Prison is Being Constructed Inside Your Brain | Glenn Greenwald | EP 391 appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

Trading Freedom for Safety | Today at 5pm EST

Watch the full interview with Glenn Greenwald today at 5pm ET.

Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post Trading Freedom for Safety | Today at 5pm EST appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Tit-for-Tat, and Game Theory | Robert Sapolsky | EP 390

Dr. Jordan B Peterson sits down with Neuroendocrinology researcher and author of the upcoming book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, Robert Sapolsky. They discuss how Game Theory applies to human behavior across iterative rounds of play, the unexpected success of the tit-for-tat principle, the role of dopamine in the anticipation of the future, and the objective reality of transcendent structures within our biological routines.

Robert Sapolsky is an American Neuroendocrinology researcher, author, and communicator. He has spent decades studying primates in the wild, written numerous articles and books, as well as produced multiple video series on the subject. By the age of 12, Sapolsky was writing to well known primatologists as a fan, and had also begun teaching himself Swahili with the early ambition of heading to Tanzanian, Mozambique, and Kenya in search of his own primates (Specifically Silverback Gorillas) to study. Not too much later, Sapolsky would make contact with a group of gorillas in Kenya, a group he would visit every year for 25 years, spending 4 months studying them at a time. Sapolsky would go on to become the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, holding joint appointments in several departments, including Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery.

Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8

- Sponsors -

PreBorn!: Help save 11,000 babies from abortion: https://preborn.com/Jordan

- Links -

For Robert Sapolsky:

Determined (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Determined-Sci...

Behave (Book) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

Robert Sapolsky on X https://twitter.com/robot_sapolsky?la...

- Chapters -

(0:00) Tour dates
(0:37) Coming up
(1:08) Intro
(2:05) Game Theory, the logic of our behavior
(6:13) The shadow of the future
(10:31) You are a community across time, Utilitarian thinking
(15:25) Tit-for-tat, iterative game competitions
(18:00) The Prisoner’s Dilemma
(23:11) Tit-for-tat in bats
(24:24) Signal errors, virtualization
(28:57) Radical forgiveness
(31:20) Shared culture, demonizing the foreign
(33:04) Faith in the possibility of humanity
(36:03) Founder populations
(37:41) Abraham, the underlying ethos
(41:20) Religion and retention
(44:08) Cain and Abel, sacrifice, maturity, and dopamine
(47:30) The extension of knowledge into the future
(50:08) The dopaminergic system, future rewards
(53:00) Agency, quasi-predictability, the power of “maybe”
(56:30) The ultimately addictive slot machine
(57:50) Pattern of the hero
(1:01:50) You’re a winner if people want to play with you
(1:03:39) Freedom of association
(1:05:41) The meaning of “store up your treasure in heaven”
(1:08:56) Punishing generosity
(1:12:48) Playing at the edge of additional generosity
(1:14:20) Baboons, anticipation, the range of pleasures
(1:16:21) Refining taste, the tragic implication
(1:18:40) Dostoevsky, "Notes From the Underground"
(1:20:54) You are not built for satiation
(1:23:32) False adventures, pathology and addiction
(1:26:11) What God lacks
(1:28:00) Studying primates for 30 years
(1:31:13) The result of an abundance of females
(1:37:03) Third party enforcers, cultural transmission

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Tit-for-Tat, and Game Theory | Robert Sapolsky | EP 390 appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

JBP X Robert Sapolsky | Tomorrow at 4pm EST

Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8

// LINKS //
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post JBP X Robert Sapolsky | Tomorrow at 4pm EST appeared first on Jordan Peterson.

The Covenant | Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 14

Thank you for joining us as we journey through the great book of Exodus. And thank you very much to the DailyWire+ crew for having the vision and generosity of spirit to make this Exodus seminar freely available to all who are interested. Perhaps you might consider a Daily Wire+ subscription; it's a bastion of free speech. We have great content there with much more to come. Click here to learn more: https://bit.ly/3Q0lXj7

Jordan and the scholars finish their reading of Exodus, reestablishing the covenant and uniting the Israelites in their vision of the promised land, restoring law and order. This episode also includes supplemental readings from Leviticus.

Episode One will be available on YouTube indefinitely, serving as the gateway to this enlightening exploration. Episodes 2 through 17 will be available for a limited time, so be sure to watch as the remaining episodes release each Saturday.

- Sponsor -

Hallow: Try Hallow for 3 months FREE: https://hallow.com/EXODUS

- Chapters -

(0:00) Tour Dates
(0:52) Coming up
(1:30) Welcome to Exodus
(1:57) Intro
(3:10) 33 : 1-23
(47:23) 34 : 1-35
(1:29:32) 40 : 33-38
(1:39:19) Leviticus 10 : 1-3
(1:56:05) Leviticus 25 : 1-12
(1:58:52) Leviticus 26 : 3-46

// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.co...
Donations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate

// COURSES //
Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality
Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com
Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com

// BOOKS //
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-m...

// LINKS //
Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com
Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events
Blog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blog

// SOCIAL //
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson
Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson
All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson

#JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus

The post The Covenant | Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 14 appeared first on Jordan Peterson.