Jordan Peterson on the meaning of life for men. MUST WATCH

Well, I'll tell you a couple of strange things that I don't really understand. The first is that when we analyzed the effects of the future authorship program, it had a different impact on men and women. It has had a particularly differential impact on what I would call excluded men, that is, men from non-Western ethnic minorities or What? Mostly men who are doing very well, for example at Mohawk College. The future authorship program had a particularly strong effect on Mohawk College students who were men who had not done very well in high school and who had not chosen a career that had done very well for them. a destiny, a professional destiny in the end, so you can imagine that those people have an ambiguous relationship with the idea of ​​education and are not specifically goal-oriented.

They are not very motivated. Now, why did it have a differential effect on men? That is a good question. Well, first of all, women do better, so it could simply be a matter of people who don't do as well do better, and right now, most of them are men, not I believe it. I think that might be part of it, but I don't think that's all. I think part of the reason women do better is because they're likable and so if a system sets up a structure and says here's a path to achievement, women won't rebel against that, they'll accept it and that'll make them happy.

It's working very well right now for men, especially men at the unpleasant end of the distribution. And there are many more men at the unpleasant end of the district. of distribution, then there are women, right? That's what you get if you look at the overlapping normal distributions, so there's the female distribution of the male district for agreeableness. Male distribution for kindness. Tremendous overlap. Well, women are taller, all the really nice people are all women. the really unpleasant people are men. And maybe the real differences occur at the extremes, more or less, and it's a very interesting side effect of Overlapping Distributions, so people can be practically the same.

But that can still produce radical differences. Nasty men won't do it. Do anything they don't want to do. They just say yours. I'll go home and play video games. Not with you. I don't listen to your nonsense and why should I work for you? I'll just go have fun, do my thing. I don't think they're motivated, so if you take men who are like that and say, okay. What do you want? You can have what you want, but you have to find out what it is. Then they write what they want and think. Oh well, it might be worth having, so maybe I'll try a little.

That's what it looks like to me. Now you know it's weak evidence, and this is a weak argument, but I'm trying to expand my understanding to explain this. But I'll tell you something else that's really strange. I don't understand this either, so over 90% of the people who

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my videos on YouTube are men, that's strange because not about 80% of psychology students are women, so that's not what you'd expect, right? TRUE? Most of them would be women and you could say it's because of the political stance that I've taken and I thought that's possible so I looked at the demographics because I had done that long before making any of the political videos.

The percentage of my viewers were men, so it actually increased a little bit, it increased by 6% and that's not trivial. But they were still overwhelmingly male, so it was interesting. I thought, what the hell is that exactly? And now I've been

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ing the crowds when I've been talking to them and the crowds that have come to see me in person, this happened at the University of Toronto free speech debate and I actually noticed it and commented on it before the debate took place because I was talking about intrinsic differences between men and women and I looked around the room and thought hmm, hey, 80% of the people in this room are men.

So I had all the men and women. and the women stand up and then all the men stand up. I said it seems like this is a natural experiment. For some reason, 80% of the people who attended this or the men now all thought I was a little crazy for doing that and it was a risk You know what and that's fine, but I thought it didn't matter that there was something going on here. And then the interesting thing now is that every public appearance that I've ever made that's related to the type of topics that we're discussing is overwhelmingly male, it's like like 85 to 90%.

So I thought, "wow, that's weird," like what the hell is going on here exactly, and then the other thing. I've noticed? I've been talking a lot to the crowds I've been talking to not about rights but about responsibility because you can't have the blood. What are you doing? You can't have a conversation about rights without a conversation about responsibility because your rights are my responsibility, that's what they technically are, so you can't have just half of that discussion. And we're only having half of that discussion and the question is well, what the hell are you leaving out if you're only having that half of the discussion and the answer is what are you leaving out?

Responsibility and then the question is well What are you leaving out if you are leaving out responsibility and the answer could? Be well, maybe you are leaving aside the

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. That's what it looks like to me. It's like you're suffering, what makes it worth it right? you know you're completely out of line you're completely clueless about what you are It's almost impossible to describe how bad an idea like that is Responsibility That's what gives

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It's like lifting a load So you can tolerate yourself well because look in your useless Easily hurt easily killed.

Why should you have self-respect? That is the story of the fall. Pick something up and carry it, make it heavy enough so you can think, yeah, well. Useless as I am, at least I could move it from there to there. The really cool thing about this is that when I talk to these crowds about this the man's eyes light up, and that's really cool. I've seen that phenomenon because I've been talking about this mythological material for a long time and I can see it when I'm looking at crowds of people. You know, his eyebrows go up.

His eyes lit up because I prepared something for them. That's what mythological stories do. I am not responsible for that. That's what stories do, so I save the story. People click, click, click. You know, his eyes light up, but this is about responsibility. That's a whole new order. Young men are so hungry it's unbelievable. And one of the things I've been talking to some of the people who have run for the Conservative leadership in Canada, and I've been talking to them about the difficulties that they face. They have communication with young people because conservatives, what the hell are they going to sell to young people, right, because being conservative is something that happens when you are older, they can sell you responsibility.

No, one is selling it and the thing is for men. There is nothing about responsibility. You know, I was watching The Simpsons the other day. I watched the first episode of The Simpsons and deconstructed it and it's really interesting. So what happens in the first episode of The Simpsons? It's Christmas and Homer and Marge are going to buy some Christmas presents, but Homer doesn't get his Christmas bonus and is absolutely devastated about that and that. It's actually a recurring theme in The Simpsons where Homer loses his job or something or Can he make enough money tonight?

He is completely broken even though he is a useless, clumsy, dumb guy who laughs. You know what gives soul to that show is that it's still oriented toward his family? That's what makes him honorable, right? As foolish as he is, he has decided to take on the responsibility of his family and try to bear it, so he is not, he is a holy fool. He's not a complete fool. And it is very interesting to see the story because he suffers terribly as a consequence of not being able to. fulfill his responsibilities well. That's for men. Women have their responsibilities.

They are not the same Correct because they are complicated because women, of course, have to assume the primary responsibility of having children at least, but also of taking care of them. They are structured differently than men. By biological necessity, even if it is not a psychological question and it is also partly a psychological question, women know what they have to do, men have to discover what they have to do, and if they have nothing worth living for so they stay like Peter Pat and why the hell not? because the alternative to valued responsibility is impulsive lower-class pleasure and you saw that in the story of Pinocchio, that's pleasure island, it's like well, why lift the burden if there's nothing for you?

That's another thing we're doing to men. That is a very bad idea and for children it seems as if they are pathological and oppressive. Alright. So why the hell would I play? That is, if that's the situation, if I don't get any credit for taking responsibility. I might as well be sure that I'm not going to put up with it, but then you know that your life is useless and meaningless and you're not, you're full of self-loathing and nihilism and that's not good, and that's why I think it's good. That's what I think is happening. On a deeper level regarding men needing this direction, a man has to decide that. he's going to do something.

He has to decide that yes, well. You know in part what he is trying to do in the future. The creation processes say, okay, what's your highest value? Right, it's the star. It is like. Well. You can decide what you aim for, man, but you know there are some criteria that should be good for you. It should be good for you in a way that makes it easier for you to move forward. Maybe it should be good for you somehow. That is also good for the family in the community, it should cover the area of ​​life.

I mean, there are limitations on what you should consider a value, but within those limitations you have the choice, you have the option. Well, the thing is, people will carry a heavy load if they manage to pick up the damn load. So, and think well, I will not carry any burden. It's like okay, okay. But then you're like the sled dog who doesn't have a sled to pull. You're just going to rip pieces off your own legs because you're bored. You know you need people to be pack animals. They need to pull a weight, and that's not true for everyone, it's not true particularly for people with low awareness.

I mean, maybe they're open and creative or outgoing and some other things, but. for the typical person They will eat themselves, they will eat themselves unless they have a burden. That's why there is such an opioid epidemic among dispossessed middle-aged white men who are unemployed in the U.S. It's like they lost their jobs. . They are well made, they despise themselves. They develop chronic pain syndromes and depression and chronic pain is treated with opioids. It's like that's what we're doing. Yes, that's what it looks like to me. You have to do it and it is very interesting to watch young people when they speak.

For them, about responsibility, there's a damn excitement about it. It just blows my mind. It's like really. That's what counterculture is. Growing up and doing something useful. I could really do that. Oh, I'm so excited about that idea that no one mentioned that before. It's like rights rights rights rights Jesus It's scary. It's an is and I feel like that's deeply felt by the people who come to hear this kind of stuff, they've had enough of it so they better have done it because it's a non-productive way of being a responsible man that's where the encounter in life is so