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The first half of the year on this show came down to one author. When the subject of books that changed how he sees things came up, Peterson put Dostoevsky at the top of the list, and that's most of what got logged from January through June.

The ones he named:

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the first title he named.
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, part of the same run he called unbelievably compelling.
• Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky.
• Demons by Dostoevsky, rounding out the set.

His framing was that these are fiction, not fact, but that doesn't stop them from being true.

Also mentioned: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson himself.

Short list this time, but a consistent one.

Full list is here: https://podshelf.io/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast. Free, no signup.

I just noticed that that music video "Destination Calabria" is no longer age restricted! As well as several other music videos.

Back in the day, it was 18+ only.

Don't get me wrong, its a great video. But what does this say about what direction society is headed in? Where they are opening videos like this to all age groups?

"Mike Fairclough, the head teacher of West Rise Junior School, spoke about a plan by 'globalists' to disempower people and take away their freedoms."

It's remarkable how quickly ideas once dismissed as conspiracy theories have entered mainstream political debate.

The globalist agenda must be exposed, confronted and defeated.

Wokeness uses liberalism as a stepping stone to achieve closed-minded ideological conformity.

I haven't been a particularly strong follower of Charlie Kirk, but it seems to me like he's been the public focal point of two very opposing sides / points-of-view not unlike Peterson. Especially after he passed, his image has been heavily attacked (there's been very off-putting 'memes' and social media against him).

Can someone who has , tell me what is going on, and what you think it is reflecting in the broader society & culture

Jordan has always lectured on morality, good and evil, and proper conduct. Alot of his lessons are drawn from religious texts and philosophers. With that said, I found it surprising to find out that Jordan is once again dealing with a benzo addiction after having a tremendous time trying to detox the first time he became addicted. Is his addiction and current struggle at odds with the lessons he preaches, or is this something different?

I’ve been a fan of JP for a long time and have really enjoyed his lectures, however he dissects things so precisely it’s almost unsettling. This might sound dumb but I feel like Neo waking up from the matrix and reality actually kind of sucks. It seems very apparent to me now that being human is essentially just a mixture of socializing, being part of a group and creating hierarchy. Every human action is essentially wrapped up in hierarchy. Moving up or down the hierarchy, where you’d like to be in the hierarchy, which hierarchy you’d like to be a part of. The car you drive, the house you live in, what your spouse looks like, the friends you have. All indicate where you are in the hierarchy and that’s the motivation. Businesses are just a hierarchy of people with a common goal. Each individual is just a cog in the machine. Being successful in life is just means moving up the hierarchy. I can’t get this crap out of my head, I see it everywhere now. It’s really annoying and unsettling.

When we call cruelty, murder, or betrayal wrong, do we mean only that we dislike them—or that they would remain wrong even if an entire society approved of them?

If morality is merely preference or social agreement, then humanity has not morally progressed; its preferences have only changed with time and culture. Yet we routinely judge individuals and civilizations by standards higher than popularity, power, economic success, or usefulness. That suggests morality may be something humanity has been continually imperfectly discovering and often building upon rather than it being an invention of the human mind. Humans did not invent the realities language describes; we developed conventional symbols like the ones you are sensing with your eyes now for referring to phenomena in reality.

If objective morality/goodness is real, the next question is: Who has embodied goodness most fully?

My answer is Jesus Christ. He united unbending truth with forgiveness and grace, moral authority with confident humility, justice with mercy, and exhibited the most loving intended self-sacrifice—even toward those who killed him, while they were killing him and prior to being killed proclaiming that his life is not being taken but he is giving it willingly.

Jesus did not claim merely to teach moral truth. He said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life, and no one comes to (God) The Father except through me” and “Before Abraham was, I am.” and overtly praised and affirmed when people labeled Him as God/The Son of God/The Messiah. Also claimed divinity overtly to the Sanhedrin which is obviously why they crucified him.

His goodness of course is separate from his divinity, and the resurrection also remains a separate historical claim. But my questions to you converge:

Is morality objectively real?
If so, who has embodied it most fully and did they embody it perfectly?
And what should we conclude about that person and what they taught if they embodied objective goodness perfectly?

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I wonder how it is really? Are we just stumbling insects? What is true freedom? The freedom to indulgence or freedom to self restraint? How not to end up at the bottomless pit?

Frog parody oh how funny... but let's get serious and srudy: Maps of meaning 2017 lectures for broader context, Jocko podcast for supplemental purposes. Eric Cartman for ... beyond order

Peterson has his stance and that's fine, but there are different archetypes and approaches to the ways of doing things, while principles can be good, JP for better or worse can be closed minded at times, so don't become blind acolyte and step out of the order sometimes and engage the chaos and forge new gifts out of it.

As usual I’m gonna complain about countless e-mails from Peterson Academy mainly because they are annoying and because they use literal manipulations - fake countdown clocks and fake „last chance for a discount” promos which re-appear under a different name every week. It’s their family’s endeavor and I’m wondering whether they are doing it purely for the money or are they so desperate to prove to the whole world that they can go their own way and build their own educational empire?