Jordan Peterson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #460

coworkers. and my clients, the whole time there were no problems, but as soon as things around me exploded politically well, the people who have armed the universities took advantage of that opportunity to persecute me and then the university, which is very infested with radicals like almost everything. Other places in the west and particularly in Canada are. I am taking

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opportunity to try to make my life miserable, but we will see whose life is made miserable. Wow, yeah, are you feeling? You feel it? There was almost a part of you that was too excited about the car to not do it.

To begin with, it is never fun to face legal proceedings. Yes, generally speaking, you have to be a fool to think that even if you're the one who loves a lawsuit, you have to be a real fool to think it's going to do anything but a cause. there's a lot of pain and misery like lawsuits aren't entertaining and I have a pretty pronounced propensity to feel guilty and I went through things like that. This has been going on for a long time on and off for about six years, but a lot of decisions just happened. Alright, the court ruling that denied my appeal just happened.

Okay, yeah, because I have to move forward with the appeal. Yeah, no, next thing they have to do, either I have to go ahead with the training, or they can drag me in front of a disciplinary board. and my next step will be to say, bring in the disciplinary board, they film those wow, I'll put it on YouTube, so if you want to argue that, for example, my objections to the transsurgical mutilation of children, I think that's wrong because I think that in It's actually a crime against humanity the reason I think, by the way, is the UN definition of crime against humanity, one of them is involuntary sterilization.

My feeling is that if you are a medical professional and you sterilize a child. that is involuntary sterilization because they are not qualified to give qualified consent, informed consent, as anyone with any sense recognizes, yeah, they can't even go on a field trip without getting the right signature or you know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah, sure , so that they can yes, they cannot continue like

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, yes, there are hospitals, now genital excursions, yes, well, now there are hospitals, when they inform the children of what is going to happen, for example, if they are castrated, for example, they tell the girls.

They are obviously not castrating the girls, they are just doing double mastectomies and sterilizing the girls, but they are telling them that they may need to store their eggs because this will interfere with their fertilization and whether they ever want to have children. Well, that's what they'll have to do. Well, you know, every 12-year-old is capable. Yes, no joke, I'm not afraid to think about it. It is absolutely despicable. I think the people who have done this should be in prison for the rest of their lives, so don't you think there's no excuse to speak out against things like that?

These are some of the reasons why they're like, oh, I think that was the main reason. Well, I tweeted something about Elliot Page, Ellen Page, yeah, remember We're in trouble now we're in trouble, yeah, I said that, I said, remember when Pride was a sin and when a criminal doctor cut off Elliot's breasts Allen Page and that got me banned from Twitter, but that was also one of the tweets they complained about, you know, and I had friends. In fact, I made a whole YouTube video about this. I had friends upgrade me for being a little harsh and we talked about it on YouTube for like 90 minutes and no.

I don't regret it at all, in fact, I think that in the year since that tweet, the tides have turned firmly in a direction that indicates my suspicions were more than justified. You know many of the European countries that were okay with this. so-called gender-affirming care has reversed its stance, including in the Netherlands, where this protocol is this hypothetical miserable gender-affirming statement because it's a lie. Where that protocol first emerged, the Dutch have realized it's a bad idea, they've realized it in the UK, Norway, Sweden, France and they're backing off like it's math. Now Americans and Canadians still think it's a good idea, but it's not right, there are probably still a few people trying to do it. the balance of what its value is, you know, in the United States, I mean, a lot of things come down to knowing what you can profit from, yeah, well, that's for sure, but do you feel like in Canada it's just because?

Canada is like a pat. I don't want to say it's a passive place, but it's like a uh, I don't know, it was passive. Do you think the word? I think passive is a reasonable word in comparison. to the excited States of America, let's say okay, that's very fair, well, and I think to some extent, look, you know that our constitution originally, its system is based on the idea of ​​the similar right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and our constitution was based on the order of peace and good government, is a very different vision of what constitutes a proper society.

The basic doctrines of your country are more entrepreneurial and adventurous, and I really think you can see that in the difference between the two countries and they are more individual and more yes and more libertarian and more entrepreneurial and um you can see that in the temperaments of the two countries and in fact things worked very well in Canada, I would say until about 10 years ago, 15 years ago, something like that because our institutions, all of our institutions were conservative in the best sense of the word, they were reliable, stable and predictable, but they also honestly did what they were supposed to do and that was true even, for example, for government-sponsored media agencies like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CBC, which is kind of our PBS equivalent. , but what is much more dominant in Canada and our higher education institutions were functioning and our political parties were pretty predictable, you know, we had the Conservatives and they were the party of big business and everyone knew we had the Liberals and they were the natural ruling party and they were centrists, sort of like more conservative Democrats, that's where I would put them in the political distribution, then we had the socialists, the NDP, we still have these three parties and they were essentially a Labor party and they did The Liberals of Trudeau are further to the left than the socialists and In fact, the socialists have been reduced to a parody of themselves in Canada.

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I guess not really. I mean, Howie meant, I mean, there are a lot of Canadians who are verbose, yeah, sure, there's a Canadian, there's a Canadian, but maybe it's not as challenging as the status quo. I don't know what I'm trying to say. I'm just trying to I wonder why they are Canadian comedians and we have a good comedy tradition yeah and I would say Canadians Arlen Williams like a lot of great comedians Jim Carrey yeah yeah a lot of SCTV people like that There are many really great ones. Canadian comedians and that's a long-standing tradition and they can be quite satirical.

The trailer park guys are a good example of that and I think they are absolutely brilliant. For scripted comedy, his scripted comedy is notable. but I do think that Canada is a country where, as they call it the tall poppy syndrome, if you're the poppy that grows taller than the rest, then you're the first one to get its head cut off, that's what I'm trying to say. do. Let's say yes, that's true for a lot of countries, but it's particularly true for Canada because it kind of makes it more about you than what or maybe not, you're making it more about you, but if you start to like it, yeah, Canada just wants to be. almost like we're here, yes we want to be able to fit into a space, but it's very manageable for us, yes, well that's what it looks like and it's well understood, I mean, yes, I find the peace that I feel in Canada when I'm .

I'm here, the authenticity in the eyes of the people that I see, um, even people who seem mean come up to you and then they're nice, they just seemed a little mean, you know, it's like, um, it's really wonderful. I love Canada. I love people. here, but yeah, I guess I'm wondering why that is, why are you being challenged for free speech, like what is that, well, I think I'm also a reasonably effective opponent of, let's say, the current administration in general and I. I think definitely not, I'm not trying to imply that they are directly complicit in what's happening to me in regards to college because I don't think that's the case, but I don't think that's the case either.

I'm a friend of anyone who's a friend of the current Liberal administration in Canada and these judges, for example, were loyal to appointees and they were also loyal to appointees with a long history of essentially left-wing activism, so that has an amazing effect. that too and another terrible thing that has happened in Canada is that our courts and our legal system have become politicized and that was never the case in Canada, there was no way we had enough common sense for a long time to keep politics out of the judiciary outside from the educational system outside of the media our country was not politicized we had political parties and everyone knew where they were and that is where we had our discussions and they went quite well and apart from that outside of that things were not politicized, but now in Canada and this This is the case in the West in general, practically everything is radically politicized and yes, do you think you picked that up from the West in some way?

Do you think that's something negative that happened? From there, I think we contributed a lot and I think we did in the 1980s. Canada has always leaned towards group rights, yeah, and that's what it feels like, yeah, yeah, it feels like if it were for the common good. The reason for this was that we had to tie ourselves in a knot to keep the country together because there was a lot of tension between the French, the English and Canada and it's so cold that you have to hunker down, well, yes, here, well, that can be too?

Why is this place somewhat more collectivist, say, than the US? I mean, winter here is no fucking joke and you know everyone pushes their neighbors out of the snowbanks in the winter, no, so I think 100, yeah, you really have to be a team. Do you think so? Yes, I think what I'm trying to dothinking more is about the challenge of freedom of expression, how it is questioned everywhere. It's going to be really weird if those people put you in front of a board, they're not going to do that, oh I don't think they have a choice, I actually think they'll try to publish it, you know, they'll try to keep it a secret, but that's not going to happen. it happens they should have to do PPV yeah no joke no joke absolutely absolutely I know when you want to be your corner man if there are rounds I want to get in between rounds well you were wondering if I was looking forward to it to come and, like I said, you have to be a fool to wait for legal proceedings, but I went through the 13 charges over Christmas last December, you know, it wasn't a very pleasant three days because you never know when.

You have hundreds of pages of paperwork that I had to go through, you never know if you never know when you might have done something stupid that will catch up with you, you know, and everyone has stupidity in their past, so I was pretty damn apprehensive when I went through everything. paperwork, but the deeper I dug into it, the better I felt because not only did they make terrible procedural mistakes, like following through with complaints from people who were literally falsely claiming in writing to be my clients. and I think six of the complaints are like that, but it's absolutely absurd.

I mean, two of the things they are complaining about are literally criticisms of Trudeau and if I can't criticize a permanent prime minister in my own country, there is something very wrong one of them was his chief of staff one of them was a councilor from the city um one of them was the trans issue that we discussed one of them I criticized uh Sports Illustrated for featuring a very obese cover model and I said that until now because I was worried that she was not beautiful and that no compassion tolerant of authority was going to convince me otherwise and the other reason why I think Canadians got angry about it and I think people in general is that they think I'm being mean, you know, and you should be nice and, first of all, I'm not exactly so sure you should be nice all the time.

I think we as a culture have gotten into a lot of trouble for being a little too nice, I'm not so sure I can give you an example of that, so Nicola Sturgeon, former First Minister of Scotland, said that any man who says he is woman is a woman, you think well, that's quite nice if the boy wants to be a woman, well, we can go, what harm could it do? Yeah, and then the serial sex hunters in prisons decided that maybe they were women because maybe then they could go to women's prisons and you know, if not.

He thinks that a serial sexual killer will manipulate his image to gain access to women. You're a complete idiot and of course that's exactly what happened in Scotland, so Sturgeon was criticized for her pathological compassion and that was one of the things that led to her. for a renunciation it is like tolerance Beyond a certain level it is 100 percent absolutely incontrovertible a vice and when tolerance has reached the point where it is a vice then it is time to not be so kind when you say advice what do you mean? um oh, that's a very good question, you know exactly what advice is, a vice is a pattern of behavior that, if indulged in especially repeatedly, produces nothing but negative consequences, even according to the self-definition of the person receiving it. involves in vice and therefore looks like excess alcohol.

Consumption tends to be a vice, yes, well, why? How is alcoholism diagnosed as a pathology? Well, the first thing to do is look at the amount and the frequency, let's say, but that's not enough, it has to be a high amount with frequency that causes substantial disruption in one or more important areas of life, so if You wonder if you are drinking too much, you think carefully, is it compromising your health? Are your friends starting to object? Have you been in trouble with the law? Is your wife crazy? So is the behavior starting to produce negative consequences even by your definition or perhaps even more importantly by your definition?

So I would say that any behavior that tends to be pretty entertaining in the short term but let's say it's not that good socially or in the long term. term, that is a vice and we all know that there are many things, like drinking is a great example, it is a real wonder, especially if you like alcohol, but you know that when I was a child I used to drink a lot and I stopped when I was around 24 or 25 years, maybe a little later and, you know, I was out three or four times a week having a good time drinking beer, whiskey, yeah, usually beer.

I really like beer, but whatever was available, basically anything wet, yeah. Yeah, and um, at some point, especially as my professional career developed, I realized that I realized essentially and that's also when I started my ongoing relationship with Tammy. I thought all I really do is things I regret. when I drink, yeah, you know if I do and the same thing, yeah, well that's the thing, well that's a vice, it's like it's not good for you and it's actually not good if you try to aim like you can't do it. What are you doing now? How old are you?

You die at 27 like you would have died at 27. Just most people die, you know, and they die from vices in general, you know, you told me that last time, one of the last times we talked. so there's a big challenge to your freedom of speech, you're saying the things you've said are bad, but they're not, it's like you know you have to do it now, you're supposed to say there's nothing sexual about Story Drag queen hour, that's like saying there's nothing sexual about grown men with fake breasts who dress in negligees that are clearly sexually provocative and read to children, there's nothing sexual about that, yeah, okay, no, I think Yeah.

I'll burn my eyes with a sword. It's like no. I'm afraid there's something sexual about that. Yes, and for me, yes, it would be. I mean, I think that would be a lot to consume as a kid and understand. Know? It would feel like there was a barrier to entry between me and if I were a child, yeah, yeah, a little bit, well, you know, it's part of the complexity to throw it at a child, yeah, it just seems like a lot of complexity to throw it at a child. . you know, um, yeah, yeah, so, I'm thinking mainly about freedom of speech, like do you feel like freedom of speech is becoming more and more under fire or do you feel like we're just uh no, it's a lot more under fire, look, I spoke A while ago I was in Greece and I met a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, which for decades and until now is one of the main institutions of higher education for the discussion of political issues and political philosophy, and he told me flat out realizes that his colleagues can no longer feel comfortable expressing their genuine opinions to their students and I want to say that's over because the only thing you have as an educator and certainly as a psychologist and as a doctor, a lawyer, is your good handle on the truth.

It's civil law, one of our problems with that because people just want someone to hear something they don't like, they sue, there's always a lawsuit against a police department, a university, it's like we don't like to listen. this, they shouldn't say yes, then it's a lawsuit and then once it becomes a financial burden that they can't afford, they literally can't afford to do it anymore, like we have three more teachers speaking this year, then that would be all. of our endowment or whatever by the spring and now we're going out of business, yeah, well, it's definitely if the accuser's advantages are for the accuser constantly, then everyone no one can talk anymore, right, that's what it feels like and we have We put together all kinds of prosecution systems and we have not built equivalent defense systems and that is a very bad idea and I think a lot of this is actually encouraged by social media because you can and you do and it's funny because in a certain way Sense, this is also what they accuse me of.

You know, in a sense, you can say things on social media that you could never say to someone face to face and not only can you get away with it, but you're also rewarded for it. and that is a very, very, very bad idea. Now, in my own defense, I would say that I don't do this anonymously. If I have something to say, I'll say it and I've gone after the demon anonymous online trolls. and I called them troll demons for a real reason, you know, because well, they're trolls obviously for cliché, but why the hell and the answer is because if you're using a computer you're not exactly human anymore, you're a human machine.

Hybrid, you know, and if you're just a resentful son of a bitch sitting in the basement, worrying about how miserable your life is and trying to spew as much venom as possible, you can't do anything down there by yourself, can you? ? completely powerless and you deserve to be because you haven't done anything with your life, but if you have a computer at hand you can multiply yourself hundreds of thousands or even millions of times, you can do it on Twitter and you can do it. it contaminates the entire domain of political discourse and that's why I think we've disinhibited psychopaths online and that's a recipe for disaster, but there's no way to calculate it, but I don't know if there's a way to fix it.

You know, it feels like um. there's no likes unless you have to have exactly the same unless you can't be anonymous online yeah what I mean that was one of the problems that happened with social media, everything developed so quickly that it just didn't there was jurisdiction over any of that, yes. I want to say it is, but then the media will use it like it's Goss Like. It's like objective information, you know, like they would use a tweet from someone in some basement somewhere or in a birdhouse or whatever, if anyone could. be in a birdhouse and they'll say, oh well, this guy, you know Ricky, birdhouse 40, you know he's mad about this and it's like, who cares?

You know, that guy has never, ever done anything in his life. , why should I be able to? to suddenly challenge someone who has worked hard to have a position or a space, but that person also deserves to have a voice, but you know there are a lot of problems, you know, we felt that democratizing the public forum was going to be It's a good idea, you know and can understand, what do you mean by democratizing well so that everyone has a voice? Okay, okay, okay again. In the same way, you know that you own your house and no idiot from the street can just walk in the middle of it. your house and not only yell at you but also yell at you and all your friends simultaneously yes but he can do it online properly and that's not good there are no barriers and the problem with that is that and this comes back to this problem . of Tolerance is that there are about three percent of the population that we know in this cross-cultural way that has dark tetrad personality traits oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so they're Machiavellian, which means they're manipulative, they're narcissistic, which It means they want something undeserved.

Heads up, they're psychopaths, meaning they have no empathy for other people, so it was originally the Dark Triad, but they had to add another charming dimension to the sadistic one. They delight in the pain of others and we know that pain online. Troll types, especially those who are anonymous, are much more likely to have those four sets of personality characteristics, making up about three percent of the population now that three percent of the population has posed a danger to the integrity of the individual and society since the beginning of time. Like the entire criminal justice enterprise, it is dedicated to keeping that small percentage of people under control, so that about one percent of criminals commit 65 percent of the crimes.

It is a specialization and that small percentage of people are also so dangerous that if they get the advantage, they will say, they will say, they will tear everything down, partly because they believe that if everything is ruined they will have the opportunity to shine, but also because of their sadistic quality, if they can produce an excess of misery, all the better. we're enabling them online so we imagine we have the real world and now we've built a parallel world on top of that that should represent it correctly but there are ways it doesn't represent it and one way is that psychopaths The Dark Tetrad Guys They can get away with it, so first imagine this: 35 percent of Internet traffic is pornography and that is a criminal enterprise.

Okay, so 35 a third of the network is controlled by criminals, so there's an immense amount of criminal activity per person. I see on the net like I don't know any seniors who aren't attacked at least weekly by online scammers and they usually have detailed records of the financial resources and assets of those seniors and are after them 100 from the time people sells them gold, people sell them as salt, as salinization plants, they always sell them something, yes, you know, Nigerians, yes, selling them, you know, fish, holidays or something like that, yes, yes, then, then, you have the absolute criminals.

Let's say they run the porn industry, then there are the peripheral criminals who are committing financial scams and then there are thegood? I think in some ways we're not too far from that, you know, we've been playing around with resurrecting ancient thinkers so that you can take an AI system, for example, and you can train it with everything that Nietzsche wrote, oh yes, everything Donald is acting in the American Legion. I'll go over there and see it, yeah, well, you know, and then you can add it to that CG photorealistic Avatar and you. You can synthesize the voice if you have some voice recording and then you will have the animated Spirit of that person and these AI language systems are so sophisticated that they really capture the essential elements of someone's thinking, especially if they have a large corpus of words with which to work with and I have a student, former student, he is a colleague of mine now who has worked with large language models for years and we have started experimenting with this kind of thing, you know, producing a virtual Nietzsche, we have a virtual King.

James Bible and so you can ask the Bible any question, yes, I know. It's very strange, it's like I don't even know what to think about it because the artificial intelligence system, the big language model, captures the spirit of a text and there is a lot of biblical text and now, if you have a system that speaks, what voice is a system that speaks with the voice of the Bible what the hell is the voice that hello guys, it's yeah, I don't know if that would be it, it's almost like a perverted guy, hey guys, welcome to the Bible, uh, now I'm trying to think about who it would be oh maybe Morgan Freeman you know right, welcome to the Bible, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

I'm trying to think of a good person. Morgan Freeman would be good, yes, people would trust you to have a good Bible. I think they would let you do a couple chapters, at least an apostle, yeah it could be some crazy Old Testament talk, okay yeah I think that would be cool, yeah I always wish Carnival Cruise Lines would do the same. Cruise on Noah's Ark, wouldn't that be crazy with all the animals there? You know you proposed it. Yeah yeah, it might not be a bad idea, just something like niche marketing. You know, yeah, it could be, it could be today's episode.

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Is it starting to cannibalize itself with likes or should we be afraid of it, is that okay with you? I think we should be afraid of how the thing is the way our freedom of expression online is being so ensnared that we don't even know that if we're, let's say, if you're writing something on Facebook, you say someone wants to post something on Facebook or Twitter or, you know, or whatever, the next thing will be and they write in a message. and then he says that's not what you can say, but you can say this right, yeah, and then he says that if the AI ​​does that, you know it's good, these things you can't say, but this is what you are, so that brings validity back to just being a human being and saying something that would bring validity back to the podium right, yeah, well, I think we should be alert to the opportunities that that brings.

I mean, I think part of the reason it's complicated, because YouTube, the distribution of video um and the ability to store it has really transformed the communication landscape, that's why we can do this well and it's also something very positive, it has eliminated much of the falsehood from the media coverage, that is, one of the What is happening in this presidential election, which is absolutely revolutionary and is going to happen with increasing speed, is that the candidates are turning to the world of podcasts to get their message across and communicate directly with people right now, and there's not a lot of information out there.

Interference with that YouTube removed my interview with Robert F. Kennedy, which I thought was absolutely inexcusable given that he's doing so well running for president, you know? and we are very excited about the Russian interference in the elections, which was all a lie and here is the reality. interference with an ongoing election, but even having said that the candidates are hanging around the podcast world because they can, they're on the soapbox, it's not scripted, they don't have the questions in advance, it's long enough that you can write. of having an idea of ​​who the person is and you eliminate that television intermediary that turned everyone into, you know, a dumb idiot with no memory in a 30 tension, 30 second attention span, so that's a plus.

I think there is a market for live events to become bigger and bigger because there will be a hunger to move away from the virtual world into the real world, especially as virtual becomes more and more unreliable, um, when you talk about guys, yeah , believe. I also mean, I think you and I have seen it, we see a lot of people that we're on tour, you know, we see a lot of people that want to go out and just listen to things, listen to someone speak freely, yeah, exactly, have a collective experience. by doing that too, yeah, and it's a real experience, you know you were there, there's no doubt about it, yeah, um, when you think about a guy like, uh, uh, RFK Junior, to me, I've known him for a long time. time.

They haven't been friends, oh, if he were running for office, before you put his name in the political hat, he's always been a guy that I admired and, a hard-working guy, he loves being a father, you know, an environmentalist cares about the environmental rights where he really started and it seems to me quite altruistic in the sense that he really has nothing to lose. Everyone thought he was a crazy person for a while, you know, so it's like he didn't really have anyone to impress. no one in his pocket for sure because no one would understand, no, no, he's not working for anyone, yeah, you know, but these days it seems like with politics and entertainment, who's the loudest and the most divisive or who you know throw the sharpest spear a lot of times it gets um it gets the vote it gets the league you know they get the attention you know do you think that's uh that uh altruistic if anyone is altruistic that they even have a chance these days oh Kennedy? doing much better than anyone expected, that's a good point, you know, and I would say they have a chance without going back to those tactics.

Oh yeah, I don't think those tactics work particularly well, especially in law. in the long forms, you have to be able to carry on a civil dialogue and you have to have something to say and he can't rely on talking points and clichés that catch you straight away, like these days, yeah, well, absolutely , believe. I think YouTube is a complete bloody miracle on the political front as long as it remains uncensored and so far all things considered the YouTube platform has been pretty reliable, the only time I've really had problems with them is on anything that has to do with Kennedy, I think it was the comments about vaccines that he made that didn't make them very happy and then I also ran into them, I had problems with them in any discussion related to trans activism. world and you know, I'm very unhappy with both of them, but they are quite focal and I don't think that will last.

I think it's a blip and I think YouTube will remain a relatively unlimited platform for free speech and I also think you know Twitter is becoming a real competitor to YouTube and obviously Musk is moving in that direction and it's the only person who has a platform large enough to challenge YouTube. I mean, Rumble has done a good job. work, but the problem is that YouTube has such a block on the attention of literally billions of people that it is almost impossible to dislodge. You can move to rumble, for example, but you'll have an audience that's a fraction of the size, yeah, I think.

Some people don't know that Google and YouTuber are proprietary, so a lot of people don't realize that one of the reasons why YouTube is so good is because it has Google's search engine, so it's like when you type Youtube. you're getting, they can use the same search mechanisms as yeah, um, yeah, and it's very reliable, it never, ever crashes, yeah, like YouTube, it's a complete fucking miracle that you can, that we can do what we're doing, oh, I remember when you first came in, that was one of the first things you said, it was like, look what we can do now, you know, look what we can do, it's a revolution, online video is such a revolution. big like the Gutenberg Press, I think because you know, and Gutenberg was the first commercial printing press operator in Europe, okay, and the people at Gutenberg Press produced the first Bibles, the first Bibles that were widely distributed and that was really what which represented the spread of literacy, the Chinese had printing presses before that, but what happened in Europe was very strange because the development or importation of printing technology was fine, with movable type, so now they could produce books at a fraction of the cost, but there was also This evangelizing frenzy that accompanied Protestantism because Protestants believed that everyone should have direct access to the word of God without the intermediation of the church, so technology and this evangelization came together and so the people of Gutenberg and the people who developed After that, the printing presses began to print Bibles and distribute them everywhere, which in some places was a crime punishable by death, as if it were something severely limited, especially by the Church authorities who wanted to limit common people's access to the Bible, but what?

This actually happened, and people generally don't know that it was Protestant fervor for Bible distribution that made the world literate, not just Europe, because Protestants then went everywhere and have literally done it to virtually everyone. spoken language, in fact, I think they will be finished by the year 2050. The Bible will be translated into all languages ​​and what the Protestant missionaries did is that if they encountered a people who had a language without an alphabet, they worked with them to develop an alphabet forthat they could print the Bible and distribute it and literacy was literally brought to the world by the combination of the printing press and Protestant evangelists, so most people, many cultures and many similar people for a long time.

Some time ago, the first book they learned to read was the Bible. Well, for a longer period of time it was the only book forever for hundreds of years or, you know, for a good 50 years, even a century, maybe after the printing press itself disappeared. It was not invented, the Bible was and the Bible also, technically speaking, it was also the first book because there were scrolls and there were other forms of text distribution, but a book per se that was also a technological revolution, wow, and then the printing press brought literacy. but the thing about reading is you know most people don't buy books, it's a niche market, especially hardcover, especially non-fiction, a small number of people buy those books and an even smaller number of people read them and that's partly because you can't read when you're driving and you can't read when you're welding.

You know you can't read when you're plowing or harvesting a field, but you can listen, yes. and a lot more people can listen than read, I think 20 times more, 50 times more, a lot more people can listen and watch, so now you know that the printing press had the advantage of permanence and duplicability, but now video has permanence and duplicability, so there are no barriers to publication. We can record this and release it in front of a million people and like one day, yeah, we don't need to drive to Vienna and say that. bag a man or print it or whatever it doesn't have to be a secret it doesn't have to jump through any hoops we don't have to make a million copies individual copies and send them everywhere yeah, no, it's It's crazy and I think it's a completely revolutionary technology and it should bring this is the advantage of the disadvantages we have been talking about.

I mean, we should be able to bring, we're launching a university in the Cae an online university called Peterson Academy and we hope to be able to bring high quality social interaction, lectures and accreditation assessment, all of that to a wide audience around the world with a reduction costs of approximately 90 95. We hope to be able to get people. the equivalent of a four year degree for four thousand dollars and I think that is doable and it will be an accredited degree that will be a real degree like in any field that we are working in. I don't believe it.

It will be an accredited degree, you know, because I already went. I have offers from several jurisdictions to work towards accreditation and we will look into that, but the accreditation process is captured just like the other institutions we have described and going down the accreditation route would probably mean we wouldn't be able to do the other things we they need to be done to make the university work, so I think what we're going to do is, we're going to make sure that our testing and accreditation are extremely rigorous, so that if our platform gives you a certificate, let's say that the people who If they could hire you they will know that you have done the work, that you have stuck to the tasks and that you are literate.

What can you think of and we want to produce the certification we want the certification to have a high enough value that it speaks for itself for employers to obtain it, so we want to work with employers to provide them with the information if our graduates want it's about who has done spectacularly well so I think we can bypass the accreditation process because the only thing that a college degree or what we'll call a college degree for this conversation is just a business just believe that because it's kind of It's been practical practice. over time, well, hypothetically there is another university that is the only one that comes out and says this person is just as qualified, if not more so, then all the business has to do is be willing to accept that, yes.

Well then we would have to be able to demonstrate why that is, but I have been doing assessments and evaluations for 30 years and I know how to do it and I will make sure that you don't get a certificate, let's say a degree. of my institution, unless you know what you're doing, that doesn't mean I'm going to exclude people arbitrarily, but it will mean that you know, if so, imagine you hire someone with a degree and you say, well, what does that guarantee? to the employer and the person? Being stuck on something for four years, so that's a good predictor of the conscientiousness trait and it's a good predictor of workplace performance and also intelligence, and those are the two best predictors, and so you can assume that the person was able to manage their social life well. enough that they didn't get kicked out of the damn place, at least you know they made some friends and stuff, and you can assume a certain degree of literacy and a certain degree of familiarity with ideas and the ability to communicate what you know and others .

There are good things you should know if you're going to be hiring, but those are things that can be tested very effectively and I would say much more effectively than what is normally tested in universities, so let's go for it. quality route instead of the accreditation route I think that's right, I think so, I mean, well, they can also be great conferences and they can be important to people as well. I think you know, having more information that's not just information like text and book information, you know about the people that are hiring. I started this.

I have been working with people in the UK and Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada to produce an international organization that is to present a different vision of the future. So the vision of the future that we generally face now is an apocalyptic vision, according to which human industrial activity and population increase in such a way that we are essentially destroying our ecosystem. We are in a crisis if we do not recover our climate. our carbon emissions under control within the next 50 years we are going to reach a tipping point the planet is going to enter a spiral of global boiling and everyone is going to die do you think not?

I guess I don't think there's even a lick of it. There's no evidence for that and the idea that 97 percent of scientists believe that's true is a 100 percent complete and utter lie. I think the best estimate of the possible consequences of any degree of climate change that is occurring for whatever reason. I think they have been derived by Bjorn. lomberg and he's going to talk to me by the way, I have a conference coming up, there's a conference coming up in the UK for the alliance for responsible citizenship, that's the name of this organization, Arc Arc, so it's two parts right now. .

We are going to do a conference in the United Kingdom, in London, on October 30, October 31 and November 1. We have invited 1300 people. Okay, a lot of them are young social media influencers because we want to spread our idea to those people, so if they do. I'm captivated by that, let's say they will use their resources to distribute the idea. It is in London. I would like to go. Can people come, come, come? I'll send you an invitation. Well, that's next, so we've sent out invitations. at 1300 now the problem with that is you can argue it's elitist you could have it well I'll send you one if you didn't I'll send you one it should be an extraordinary three days but at the end of We want the public to participate and we're trying to figure out how to do it and the first aspect of public participation will be that I rented the O2 in London and it seats about twelve thousand fifteen thousand people depending on how many levels are opened. and we didn't know how many people would buy tickets, we've already sold about 7,500 tickets, so I think we'll sell out the damn place, but I'm going to speak there and so will Douglas Murray and Jonathan Pajo, who is the deepest religious thinker I've ever met and also It's Bjorn Lomberg and we're going to talk about the basic idea is something like this is that you know that the human race and all the individuals that make it up have always faced an apocalyptic future. you know that everyone dies and everyone you know is going to disappear and as if catastrophes are coming towards you and obviously societies also face apocalyptic circumstances, just as all of Rome disappeared, Greece disappeared, you know that the apocalypse is always there as a possibility in front of to us, always the question.

The fundamental question is how to deal with a radically uncertain future and one answer is: well, you panic and you run around and you terrorize everyone and you use that club of fear to beat them into submission and you tyrannize them and you do it while asserting simultaneously you are saving the planet and you are not doing it, you are simply accumulating power for yourself. I think tyrants use fear to gain compliance, so you could say, well, what's the alternative to that, well, the alternative that we're trying to present. How about we offer you a good deal?

It's like this is the future you could have. It will be one where you could get ahead. You know, where you could be self-employed. You have your freedom, where your life could be abundant and also the life of your loved ones. your children we are pro-family and we are pro-children and we believe that if human beings acted ethically and communicated candidly and pointed upwards with courage because it must be done with courage given the possibility of the Apocalypse that there is not a problem that we could not solve, We could make the desert bloom, we don't have to enter the future with fear, you know, other than the fact that we are mortal and vulnerable, so what is the goal of the group? to have groupthink is to start planting seeds in people is to see where it goes what is the objective of the conference and our initial moves, I would say that the fundamental objective is to present the proposal that we could develop a vision for the future that would be voluntary, positive, concrete, practical and not naive, so the idea would be that we are not going to close our eyes to the fact that the world is a dangerous place, yes, but we are going to say, look if we have our joint act named there is no limit to what we can achieve, I mean, look at the last since the wall fell in 1989, the planet has become immensely richer, you know, when I was a child, the notion of famine in China and India and Africa, which was part of the course that was happening all along, that doesn't happen anymore, people now only starve for political reasons and very rarely like it, and that's despite the fact that there are eight billion of people on the planet when the pessimistic Apocalypse-mongers. in the 1960s they believed that we would be overpopulated and starving with 4 billion by the year 2000, right, that's always been a kind of kickball that they or, you know, a kind of political kickball or I don't know if it's political. , but it has always been something that yes, we are going to be based on a flawed biological model, so here is the model because every 20 years they say that in 20 years, 50 years we will be dead, yes, yes, we are still alive, yes, what are we?

He was supposed to get it right, there was a famous bataye between a guy named Paul Ehrlich, who was a Stanford biologist, and a guy named Julian Simon, who was an economist, and Paul Ehrlich was a guy who thought he was a genius and Julian Simon was a genius and they made a bet, I think in the early 1970s, and the BET was that Ehrlich was a man who wrote a book called The Population Bomb and said that we were all going to be stars in the year 2000 and that commodity prices Commodities would become extremely scarce and their price would skyrocket, no one would afford anything and we would all die.

That was his vision and Simon said: I bet you this is the deal: you pick a basket of staples. I don't. no matter what you choose, choose what you want, I bet you that by the year 2000 not only will they not be less expensive, they will be much cheaper and Ehrlich paid Simon and in the year 2000 and the same thing happened. Because commodities have become cheaper, not more expensive, and the reason for this is that the Malthusian model that Ehrlich was working on was based on the idea that biological organisms will multiply uncontrollably until they exceed the carrying capacity. of your environment. and then they will collapse precipitously and if you have a petri dish full of agar that the mold will eat, for example, and you put mold in there, the mold will multiply until it eats all the agar and then it will die, so that's biological. model and you can apply that model to many populations in nature and there are circumstances in which that will occur, but the question is: are humans well modeled by mold in a petri dish and the answer is no and there is a reason?

There's a real reason for that that Ehrlich, as a biologist, should know: Humans are strange creatures because we evolved the ability to produce virtual representations of ourselves. That's what a thought is. You know when you dream about yourself or someone else. you have created an avatar of yourself or the other person in your imagination, right, it is virtual, a thought is a virtual extension of you, okay, then, whatWhat human beings do is produce thoughts that multiply and all those that do not. Well, then people don't have to die and that's why we've replaced the death of people with the death of thought and what that also means is that because we can transmute our thinking and change it abstractly, we can change the way we think. that where we act radically enough to not be subject to Malthusian limitations, we can get more with less all the time, you know, we're much more effective at powering gasoline-powered cars than we were 40 years ago, in a much more more efficient.

With less pollution we can get oil out of shale and we couldn't do that at all 20 years ago and we are announcing extract from depleted oil deposits yeah yeah this and that is happening yeah I mean they're getting milk from oats they're getting um there's a new company that's uh uh there's this company uh vespine they're extracting methane gas from landfills, processing it as energy on the spot and extracting Bitcoin with it and using it to get similar data, like you know people do data, so our vision. in ARC it's essentially this is that there is no natural resource more valuable than human cognitive ability, okay, and we are eight billion people and that means there are eighteen thousand people now that are one in a million, like we could capitalize In our collective intelligence there is no limit to the number of problems we can solve.

I don't think there is any reason to assume that we couldn't have the abundant future that we would all dream of and maintain harmony with the environment in a way that we would consider acceptable indefinitely and I think the best way to interfere with both the economic and environmental parts is to terrorize people into tyrannical submission and demolish the poor because that will happen immediately afterwards and for the whole damn House of Cards to collapse , we don't need to do that. so here's another one: we tear down the poor, what do you mean you make energy more expensive?

Well, who are you harming the poor? Well, obviously, and whenever you do any basic need, there is no basic need more basic than energy, yeah, as soon as you do. You hurt the poor the most and you know it's always like that, there's a pyramid of poor and rich people, there's a small number of people at the top and they have most of the wealth and then you go down to the bottom where the majority of people are and they barely hold on well, so if you add more stress to the system, you knock a bunch of them over and they can't hold on to the side of the cliff anymore and they just fall off and you know, the Malthusian types will say "well, there are too many people on the planet anyway" and I always interpret that as saying "well, that means you're going to sacrifice the poor for the planet" because that's your fucking plan and I think that's absolutely 100 percent unconscionable, we should work to reduce energy costs as low as possible, you know, I think nuclear power is a very good option, but we should use fossil fuels, especially natural gas, like crazy and make the Indians and the Chinese stay with the Africans.

Their standard of living is great too, so if you get people to the point where their income exceeds five thousand dollars a year per capita, they start to take a long-term view of the future and care about environmental concerns at the local level. , so while you're imagining you're rummaging around in the damn dirt like you're literally trying to worry about where your next meal is coming from. In reality, you are not very concerned about maintaining the environment for the next three generations. Yes, obviously you can do it, but as soon as you have enough. money so that you are not terrified of poverty and so that you can start thinking about the future immediately, you start to worry about your local environment and then what that means.

I realized this about 15 years ago, it actually means that the quickest path to Truth Environmental sustainability is to eradicate absolute poverty so that we can have our cake and eat it too and that's the kind of thing that I think is a invitation. Imagine that the future is that we eradicate poverty and everything is greener. Well, that's a much better deal than degrowth. you know you don't have heat in your house you don't have air conditioning you can't fly you can't have a car you can't tell a joke you know you're a damn curse on the surface of the planet there should be a lot less of you it's bad to have children your ambition isn't part of that but part of the damn patriarchal nightmare is like I don't like that vision and I think it will achieve the same catastrophe that it is hypothetically designed to mitigate and what I would like instead is to offer people a vision in which people listen, say Jesus, you know, I can join that, I could dedicate myself to that.

That sounds like the kind of future I'd like to have voluntarily, so I hope people come to the O2 event well, so that's the public part. We will have around 15,000 people there. We have sold approximately half. the ticket so if you want tickets people are listening get them because they're going to sell out and I would like everyone who comes too. I did this program online at a site called self-authoring.com. It's called The Future Authoring Program, help. people design a vision for themselves, yes, we have talked about it, yes, we have, we have. I would like everyone who attends the ark public event to do that so that they can come with a personal Vision in their hand and then they can start thinking.

Well, how can I lie my personal vision with this broader national and international vision? I love that it is that way. Yes, we are waiting for you. We hope this will also be a beautiful conference. We have a lot of musicians coming. For many artists it's not political, it's motivational, yeah, you know, and that's why people love that stuff. I think it's very important, you know? I think any place where people can find motivation is really poor, really, really, really important, yeah, that's the hallmark of importance, you know? If you're delivering a message and people are like, "Oh my God," you know I could put that to work in my life and that would motivate me to get up and face all the struggles that I have to face and people have struggles. things to face if you can provide them with the means to do so that is the definition of courage Nietzsche said that whoever has a why can endure any how and then in part what you do in your life is look for a why that justifies that catastrophe right, it is like yeah, we've talked about them before we've talked about that.

I mean, there's one really interesting thing that he told me is that you have to say it because sometimes I remember telling you that I'm afraid to set my goals. because I don't want to have to take responsibility, yeah, and you're right, of course, you say, well, you have to set your goals and you also have to see what your life would be like if the worst things happened. happens to you, then you have something to stay away from, you have something like this is not where I want to be, you know, and it gives your brain those parameters and then your brain can start to operate better than if you were.

I just have no goal, yeah, well, you know, you can even ask yourself these questions and you have to ask, which is very interesting, you can't tell yourself, you could say well, look, here are all the problems in my life, you know. when people I'm not particularly attractive. I have this health problem. You know, I'm not a genius. I have problems with my parents. You know, I'm fighting on a variety of fronts, although there were real problems and it's not just meandering, and then you. You have to ask yourself, okay, given all that, how would I have to set up my life to be able to justify all that or even celebrate it properly and that's a very hard thing to imagine?

Well, you know, I have a very sick son. well well how do I have to configure my life so as not to be bitter and angry about it well who knows right you have to fantasize about it you have to think well you know so for example I am working with my my my sister-in-law at the moment is taking care of her sister who is suffering dementia and it's really quite brutal and she's not that old, so my sister-in-law is taking care of her sister and that's hard work, you know? and one of the things that Tammy and I have done is we don't live there, so most of the burden has fallen on my sister-in-law, she's a wonderful person and what we try to do with her and her husband is say we give them some moral and financial support and part of it is like, look, you're going to have to take a break from time to time, you're going to need a four-day

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that you're going to have to go with. your husband it's like you have this responsibility to take on and it's hard under what circumstances you could do that at least without bitterness that would be good but maybe even with joy you know I mean that's trying well but it's not a bad goal if you can do it and it gives you it's like it's okay now you have a plan you have so you're not aimless like a lot of us are aimless it's like we're always like why do I feel aimless?

People ask me that. At that time, as a man, I feel very anxious, yeah, I don't know what to do, well, you know, okay, so two things happen when you have no goal, the first is that you get anxious and the reason why you get anxious is because anxiety calculates aimlessness. If you leave someone in the middle of a desert, the reason they are anxious is because it is not because they don't know which way to go, it is because there are too many places to go in all directions and that is aimlessness. it's like every direction is calling, that's too complicated and your brain is literally signaling it with anxiety, okay, so aimlessness and anxiety are the same thing, but it's worse, your brain is wired to produce positive emotions, literally , this is what the positive motion system does.

It calculates the decrease between you and a goal, so if you have a goal and you see that you have done something that leads you towards it, your brain produces a dose of dopamine that makes you feel good and strengthens the neural circuits that made you move forward. It does both: reward and reinforcement, and what that means is that if you don't have a goal, you don't have any positive emotions, and when people say you know they don't have a goal, they're partly telling you that they're anxious. but they also tell you that they don't have any positive emotions, so then you say what kind of goal you should have because that's the next question and the answer is: ask yourself and this future creation program that I set up. helps you do that okay, here's the deal, here's the deal, maybe this isn't true, but maybe it is.

You can have what you want in five years, but there are two conditions: you must know what it is and you must aim for it. Okay, okay, so let's say you're willing to play that game. It might be wrong because who knows you'll get hit by a bus tomorrow, but you know you're going to play. Okay, now the next step is fine. You probably want to be intimate now, maybe not, but probably, but assuming you imagine you're a boy, you can have an intimate relationship. How does it look? What does it look like when your wife greets you when you come over?

Coming home from work, what is her sex life like? What do they do for entertainment? How do they treat each other? They need a fantasy like that of a small child playing house. start moving towards that, okay, do that with your family relationships, do that with your friendships, do that with your career, do that with your education, think about your alcohol and drug abuse and other things that could bring you down if you want to drink , it's like you. I want to be a clumsy Barney Gumble idiot like you want to drink okay? what do you mean by that exactly how often how much is too much?

How are you going to limit that and why do you develop a vision and do you have to do it in dialogue with yourself? right, it's like I could have what I wanted, what would satisfy me and you might think, well I could never get that and I might say, well maybe not, but I'll tell you what, man, you can move towards that and I know that Everyone Who knows the underlying neuroscience knows that almost all the pleasure is in moving forward, so even you know that you don't want to set a goal so high that there is simply no chance that a moron like you can achieve it, but only God.

You know what your upper limit is, you know that, but if you set a goal that you think is right on the edge of what's conceivable, then every time you move even a little bit toward it, you'll think that's good work, good work. you get a little kick with it you get a little stronger with it and that works yeah, yeah, you bet, you bet an end of aimlessness to the end of aimlessness, that's the desert in the Exodus, hey, When the Egyptians leave the pharaoh, they leave the tyranny, right? everyone thinks: "My God, we have come out of tyranny now it is freedom." Everything is great.

That's not what happens. They go to the desert. They have no objective. They are slaves. They have no capacity for self-government. They have no vision of their own. They abandon tyranny and are now in a worse place,We try to have our attitude to have music before the shows and that helps, but the right attitude is that there are 5,000 people here. That's impossible. You're an idiot if you take it for granted. It is very unlikely and everyone has spent time and money to get here. Everyone has put in a lot of effort. They're here because they want something good to happen, you better get on your knees and be grateful that this improbably happens because you could be walking down the street and people could be kneeling on you and that would be a lot worse, yeah, and that and my My wife has also been a big help with that because he went through a big trial over the last few years and he's very happy that he's not burning in hell, so to speak, so I think I was probably surprised by the magnitude of the pain that I saw in the world, you know. , I didn't understand how many people there were out there who were essentially dying for lack of a word of encouragement and it was very hard for me, in some ways, in a positive way, but also very difficult to hear thousands of stories from people who would say that they know that I I was falling apart five years ago here are 10 things that were going wrong in my lifehopeless nihilist depressed drug addict in jail on the street unrelated do you know what hell people can find themselves in and oh yeah say well you know I started trying to say the truth and aim up and everything got a lot better and now my life is organized and you know that's really positive, but the terrible thing is that I didn't know there was such a lack of stimulation.

I didn't know that lack of encouragement was so endemic in our culture. I did not know how. a lot of people were suffering because of it, that's part of the reason why Trump is so popular, you know, people feel that Trump is a defender of their discontented lives and I think there is some truth in that, to tell you the truth, I think it's true, yeah, for anything else that he might obviously be able to connect with working class people and that's what you have to keep in mind, he has to be doing something that's doing something that addresses that issue and It's a deep problem, it's a terrible problem, you know, and I had some trouble swallowing.

Let's say I got hurt and it was hard like there was a moment where I had something like every time I got more. I understand it's more popular to say because that's probably the way to say it as I started to think. that, as God, I thought, oh God, like I have a bigger responsibility towards God, in a way like that, but that was a little scary to me at first because, as a saint, this is like a big responsibility. I feel like it was, and it really wasn't. like um, I don't know, it was just scary like, oh, it's ego, it's like, well, how am I careful not to think that I am?

There is something really special about me. It's okay to have some self-esteem and this is helping me. I have some self-esteem, but how can I not let you fill my ego cup first? Yeah, well, I think a big part of that is gratitude, right? I think it's the antithesis of that and I think that's a practice, right, you have to constantly pinch yourself and think, well, look, here we are, we're in this studio, we're going to have the opportunity to talk to a million people and we You will like how extraordinary that is and how stupid we would be.

You have to be completely unenthusiastic about it and then take that responsibility seriously. You know, one of the things that our culture has a real problem with is the idea of ​​privilege, unearned privilege, it's like you have all these advantages. a lot of advantages every now and then a question really arises: well, a lot of other people don't have those advantages, like why you and then what the hell are you supposed to do about it and the answer is you're supposed to take advantage of responsibility of So now you have all these opportunities and these advantages and that means that to balance the cosmic scales properly you better do work that is as good as your opportunities allow and I would say that if you don't do it well, you will become arrogant, you will start to take it for granted, you'll start hurting people and yourself, and the whole damn thing will fall apart, so you'll pay well, so you'll pay for your privilege by growing ethically. that's what you do and yeah, and that's what allows you to also be successful without being guilty, it's like you know because people might say well, what the hell are you doing with your money or your opportunities?

And if you can say it right, here are 10 things that what I'm doing, you know, and if I stir my conscience, those seem to be the ten right things that I can do with all this opportunity, so the guilt-mongers can't come and say: Well, you know who you are to have what you have and we. I don't want people to be able to say that because if no one can have anything then no one can have anything and that's a recipe for poverty and catastrophe, so yeah, I have to do a better job or not, but I have to do it.

I think I was also afraid of, yeah, it was scary, like when you become popular, it's a little scary, oh yeah, you know, it's like I've definitely been through a lot of social anxiety like when I'm out there like a lot of things happen to you. weird things that you're trying to balance and then still manage your own life at the same time, um, but yeah, I think it's a good note to make sure that I just have some things in place that I feel like I am and that's when I feel my brain. and a lot of times I have a hard time thinking, okay, how can we do something positive for someone else today?

How can I not think well of myself? That's also a really useful technique for social anxiety by the way, so if you feel social anxiety in a situation, part of the reason is because you're thinking about how you feel and what you should do, so here's an interest, here's something very interesting if you look at what people say and what they write, take the words they use, analyze them and see how many times they refer to themselves, the more they refer to themselves, the more likely they are. . being depressed or psychotic or psychotic right, you can actually distinguish with 75 accuracy between people who are clinically depressed or clinically psychotic and people who are not by the number of times they refer to themselves literally, the more you think about yourself, most miserable You're literally that tight, so what do you do if you're in a social situation and you get anxious because you start thinking about yourself?

You start sweating and yes, you wonder what you look like. Yes, my legs are the same. things like that exactly exactly and what you're trying to do is try to make the people around you feel more comfortable you shift your attention it's like stopping it's not that you have to stop thinking about yourself because you can't if Stop thinking about yourself, you're thinking about yourself and you will fall into that pit, but if what you decide to do is pay much more attention to the other person and try to make them feel comfortable, that social anxiety will disappear immediately.

Yes, yes, yes, it's a really good technique. You know, I thought you also like it when you meet people. I don't know if you've learned to do this or not, but when people come up to you and say hello and say hello. and so on, they are on the street, everyone has a rhythm, some people arrive fast, others arrive slowly, if you match that rhythm, you calm them down immediately and that is part of the payment, it is a lot of fun, co-create a bond, TRUE? because they realize very subconsciously that you're paying attention to them, it's like a dance, it's like the first step of a dance, you know, and I always ask people their name because if they get nervous, most people can remember your name.

I had a hard time feeling proud of myself, yeah, yeah, and I just wanted to think about that with you for a couple of minutes, um, yeah, I have a hard time feeling like you know people always say you should be proud of yourself, right? You know? It's really hard for me to do that. I know pride is a cardinal sin, you know, and there's a reason for that and there's a reason why pride goes before a fall and I don't think you should be proud of yourself. I don't believe it. that's the right terminology, okay, and I think that's a place where our culture has really gone off the rails, it's like you should be convinced in your heart that you're doing the best you can with what you've been good at. and hopefully that will make you less anxious and give you more hope, but you know that you should have the same kind of respect for yourself that you have for someone you love and that's not pride, that's what you should.

It would be wonderful if you could direct your thoughts toward yourself so that you can allow yourself to feel pleased if you prosper. It's not pride, it's recognition. It would be nice if I could guide you towards yourself so that you would be happy if you prosper. you have a son you want your son to do well oh you want him to do well and it doesn't even exist yes well that's well that's all good that's the attitude you should have towards yourself it's also that you know you should also you should try hard you know Look, if your son goes out and plays a soccer game, you know you want him to do well.

You don't want him to be arrogant and proud and you don't want him to be the star at the expense of others. Yes, you want him to do well when he deserves it. and you want him to deserve to do well that's the attitude you should have towards yourself it's like you should prepare yourself so that if things go well for you, that's good now you should you should be grateful for that right and you should be surprised at what is taking into account how many things can go wrong, you should allow yourself the luxury of success, but you should also hope that for everyone else it will be good, we could set the world so that we would have more abundant life than everyone would succeed and we should treat ourselves ourselves as if we were the kind of creatures for whom success is acceptable, right? and we have doubts about it because we all, well, have deep defects.

We are mortal and we are vulnerable and we are subject to suffering and we are ignorant and we make mistakes and it's easy to think that a creature like that deserves nothing more than endless punishment, misery, you know, but I think you give yourself the benefit of the doubt. like you do it with someone you love and if success comes you say well, I'm very grateful for this and I hope I can take the opportunity to make proper use of it and leave it, don't do it. I am not obliged to torture you beyond what is necessary to help you learn well and if you can let go of that and you can accept, you know that is also the case, look man, you are going to have difficult times, they come, they always come and If you You're having a good time now so you think it's okay, I'll just use this to recover and I'll use it advantageously and I'll accept it willingly without thinking that somehow I'm special and you deserve it, but gratitude for that gratitude is a great practice, man, It is the opposite of arrogance and resentment.

I don't think it's a big deal to become an expert and I think you can allow yourself to be happy if you are. I'm grateful there's something about uh thank you for that thank you for the suggestion it's good that a lot of people listen there's something inside us like you always want to make your father proud like there's something inside a man like my father's He's been dead for probably 20 years, but I always want him to be proud. I can feel it almost as real as being right. Well, that's better. That's all. I would say well, look, why is that like that?

Why is there that tie? So there is no difference between the spirit. of your parents and of God is the same thing I think you take away the religious meaning for now the spirit of the ancestors that is God and you have the responsibility that you are a historical creature you have a destiny you have the it is necessary to maintain certain Traditions you need to follow a certain path, you need to align yourself with the spirit that propelled humanity forward, right, that is the spirit of the fathers and if your father loved you, he is the flow of that spirit and you . are you responsible for that or are you responsible for something else, man, so it's a good Instinct, it's a good Instinct, you know, and one of the things that Carl Jung pointed out so brilliantly, you know, he said that you don't want to confuse your father with God.

You want to separate the idea of ​​God from your father and put it above your specific father. You want to see your father as an Example. The love you received from your father as an Example of something like the proper Transcendent relationship. because that also takes you away from just being your father's son because you risked not growing up, so if you are under his control, if you are always looking for his approval, then you have to do it right, you have to do it. You have to strive to make the spirit of the father proud, but you also have to be an independent person and you do this by separating the spirit so that you are indebted to something that is above all men, but is still real, it is like the essence.

It is the essence, that is another way you can conceptualize God. It is God. It is the essence of parental love, and it is the same as many parents love their child, so the love is in him, it is not specific to any relationship. Dadaist. You could extract it well, that spirit is part of what has always been considered, that is the patriarchal aspect of God, that is a good way to think about it now. I love it, I think it's important for a lot of young people out there, um, Jordan, thank you so much, man, thank you.

It's good to see you, man, it's good to catch up, I'm sorry that you're being, uh, you know, hunted by witches in your own country, um, butIt's also kind of exciting and we're going to make the most of it, yeah, so we'll see how it goes. That's the way to do it, it's always good to see you. Do you hope to see each other next time you come to Toronto? I want to go see one of your shows. I thought your last Netflix special man, Tammy and I, we were because we come from You know, a pretty rough area of ​​northern Alberta, we were cracking up, you're a great Storyteller and you've done wonderful things with the strange things you experienced when you were child.

It's a very funny special, it really made me laugh. Thank you. Man, I really appreciate it, it's been nice to be here, in your country, I love Canada, um and uh, yeah, I want to come back and do yours and do your podcast, please, cool, yeah, I'd love to do it soon, cool, Yes, well, I would like to walk through your life. It would be fun, I mean, horrible, obviously, yeah, no, it'll be good, I think it'll be exciting, yeah, I think so, man, I'll donate to your uh, your legal camp. I know you guys are doing a proper GoFundMe for oh yeah yeah.

Yeah, well, I wanted the battle to be really expensive, which is incredibly expensive, yeah, and I mean, I'm not particularly worried about that, although I'd like to feel like I can go unrestricted without giving any consideration other than what's necessary because I will probably have to take this right to the Supreme Court, yes, but there are also many other people in Canada who are in the same Straits and I hope, first of all, that this helps them, but also that I will be able to offer them financial support, so We'll see how it goes well, so set a precedent.

This is the plan. I like it. Thank you so much for your contributions to all of us as young men and thank you for your time today Jordan, I appreciate it hey man, it's always a pleasure talking to you you look great the way you look stylish too here we go Cornerstone Oh, but when I get to that ground I'll share this part of my life it's going to take