Comments by "TheDionysianFields" (@TheDionysianFields) on "How to Integrate Your Shadow - The Dark Side is Unrealized Potential" video.

  1. You're saying aggressiveness is a virtue?
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  2.  @ivann9924  People don't compromise out of self-control, they compromise because they want to improve their social standing...to get ahead. The only virtue in play is competition, but personally I won't compromise in the name or competition.
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  3. Clawless
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  4.  @ljay3379  I don't know but ask anyone on the left and I'm sure they'll give you some reason.
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  5.  @Vitorruy1  What about the master vs slave dichotomy, ala F. Nietzsche?
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  6.    What if it's not?
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  7. Action reaction
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  8. Except the wrong people are going to embrace this notion and run with it.
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  9.  @sagittariusa3603  That's true. Aggressiveness is certainly not an unequivocal virtue and can easily be used to manipulate. But we might also say: If one doesn't discover and harness their aggression, someone else will.
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  10. It's society's job to maintain stability and order. Seems to big of a risk to promote shadow work.
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  11. ​ @Gfjancnslsdvv.ft1  As a Peterson fan (admirer), I found your argument against him well-stated. However, I would like to assert that Peterson's not responsible for the Youtube algorithms. Further, those who go down the alleged rabbit hole were usually already leaning into it so maybe it's better to speed up the process and hopefully they'll wake back up sooner. Note: none of this is to say that I don't think the West is a more advanced and interesting civilization.
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  12.  @Winteriscomn  But the daughter wasn't the one asking him to remove his teeth/claws. That's where the story is flawed. The woodman should have just sent the lion back to his daughter at the end and let her reject him as she almost certainly would. It should have been that the woodman was testing the lion's character, to see whether he could stand up to him and refuse such ridiculous demands. The lion was cowardly and failed, hence he didn't deserve the daughter. Recommended: Iron John by Robert Bly
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  13. I don't think these shadow videos should be so accessible. It would be easy for an impressionable person to misinterpret a lot of the information being presented. The shadow is a dangerous place and society may be better off with a limited number of people exploring such depths. I cringe when Jordan Peterson makes a correlation between destructive capacity and strength of character, however true it may be.
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  14. So what was it about your dad passing away that caused this new side of you to emerge?
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  15.  @ericwalker6546  And you're outside the cave, you fancy?
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  16.  @ericwalker6546  I don't think that, but I still feel it's important to express thoughts and ideas. Kind of like, "All is built on sand but we must build as if the sand were stone."
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  17. Reminds me of Ayn Rand's Howard Roark.
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