Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Jordan Peterson | Full Address and Qu0026A | Oxford Union" video.

  1. Oliver, I believe JBP's use of the word "Post-Modern" specifically relates to how it is used by Social Justice Warriors (SJW) as a thin veil for Neo-Marxism, and that it represents Nihilism. JBP believes we still live in the Modern Age of rationalism and logic, which we do, but is concern that at the university level, and now through both provincial and federal legislation in Canada, the Nihilistic forces are hell bent on Chaos, which they are, As the Neo-Marxist take over the educational system in Canada, which they show every evidence of doing, there is real danger, and he is stepping into the breach.... risking both his life and career.
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  2. The Way: JBP made that clear, and even used the American system as an example of a government hierarchy specifically designed for human incompetence, which it was. That's why it can survive both Obama and Trump.
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  3. JBP is hated by the "snow Flakes" because he is asking them to do the work of high resolution thinking, which they are too lazy and afraid to do, and instead, hand over their free will to others. In fact, some say hi rez thinking is racist.
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  4. Trump's plan would have provided a larger stimulus package and created a life annuity for not only your family, but your family's family. The Biden / Demo plan will make DEBT slaves of your descendants. Be happy with your short-term result.
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  5. Yes, one of JBP's 12 Rules, go "Clean Your Room". Do that before you attempt to clean someone else's. The act of "Talking" produced the very act which brings us here, and created the tool for doing so. Talking, then doing, then assessing the doing through talk, gives us the greatest good for the greatest number. Both talking and doing require moderation and some framework for assessment. That's what I got out of JBP.
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  6. I've got the D610 which Nikon sent me for free after my D600 sensor was constantly drenched in oil spots. I'm still here.
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  7. The Way: JBP makes it clear that order and chaos are in 'tension', and that there is more suffering and failure in the world than contentment and success. I don't see him as optimistic, but realistic, and something of a Taoist. It is our personal responsibility to at least attempt balance, and to sometimes resist the gravitons of entropy and chaos, but also to occasionally promote them. The dynamic balance of yin and yang, JBP often evokes the Tao. I watched as my compatriots were sure Obama was the Manchurian candidate and would order marshal law and not leave office at the end of his term. Now another set of compatriots are saying the same of Trump. I lived through JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. I'm suffering, but not so much.
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  8. The Way: I don't claim to speak for JBP, his TV resolution is at 4K, and mine is only around 1080P. But if you want stats that are dismal, and a far fetched hope for a future I would not like to contemplate, then check out the JBP interview with a brain scientist formerly with the National Institute of Mental Health. Unless you think this is all going to end in the Valley of Armageddon? https://youtu.be/PY4sShDt9to
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  9. The Way: Could end with an asteroid, solar flares, or an Ice Age, guess you never know. Carpe Diem!
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  10. I found an actual "Occam's Razor" on Ebay, but don't really want a leopard skin one xD https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ama-Occams-Razor-Leopard-Skin-Best-Price/192448950786?epid=2146866027&hash=item2cced9f202:g:3TIAAOSwLUpaedMn
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  11. I voted for Trump, and feel none of those things. I believe the hypocrisy of the Democrats, a party I belong to, did not deserve the win. And in fact, Trump earned more votes in 2020 then he did in 2016, and narrowed the popular vote gap in 2020, doing better against Biden than Hillary. That cannot all be explained by your definition of "Trumpsim".
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  12.  @antomin1709  I am 66yo, and getting my 2nd vax on March 26th. Trump announced today everyone should get the vaccine, it was Dems who were against the vax when it was the Trump vax. I am a radical moderate Democrat in California. My city government, all Dems, failed to get me vaccinated, but the marketplace worked, and I was able to get an appointment at CVS. Your rhetoric is far from "moderate".
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  13.  @antomin1709  Do the math, the gap in popular vote narrowed in favor of Trump in 2020. More Blacks and Latinx voted for Trump in 2020, too. I only wish the moderates would stand-up, but to BOTH EXTREMES.
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  14. Michael VK: "Buddhists are immoral"? One of the foundations of his belief system is Taoism, Yin and Yang, he talks about that over and over again, too... I think his choice of Christian archetypes is just pragmatic, since he mostly communicates to people saturated with stories from the bible. JBP is complex because he holds an ethical value to be as thoughtful and precise as possible, to be "high resolution", but I get what you are saying.
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  15. Yes, the almost 1 billion YouTube views and a best selling book is proof you are correct.
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  16. Lucas, yes, he could also look at the gang rape and murder behavior of adolescent bottlenose and spotted dolphins, who defend territory and execute revenge on rival gangs, and to think we once thought they were smarter and better than humans! http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2009/05/13/dolphins_are_violent_predators_that_kill_their_own_babies.html
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  17. Abenusugi: John C. Lilly PhD. I wrote my thesis based on much of his work. Not a hippie, but yes, LSD, Ketamine, and sensory deprivation research, He's like the Buckminster Fuller of the brain science world. His work is again being cited, and there is finally new research being done on work he pioneered in the 1960's. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9amw88/what-weve-learned-from-giving-dolphins-lsd https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/magic-mushrooms-reboot-brain-in-depressed-people-study I do not believe we are descendants of Adam and Eve. Do you?
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  18. Aberusugi; Again, as others have noted, you need to do your research before commenting, especially about "POO". JBP loves to quote Freud, and Freud was very interested in how passive aggressive infants 'handle' their POO. Poo has a long history of use for humans, and contemporary humans, as well. Quite a fetish, for some. https://samirchopra.com/2013/07/16/the-perils-and-pleasures-of-the-scatological/
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  19. Yeah, he also said, as are many others, don't be too quick to radically change something when the law of unintended consequences is at work. If something is performing relatively well, conserve it, and only make moderate changes. Then assess the consequences of those moderate changes. The US rebelled against the reassertion of the British Monarchy and State controlled Church after the civil wars of the 17th Century in which Puritans and Catholics lost any hope of power. I'm writing an alternative history entitled: "Cromwell in America, 1640".
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  20. Hey, man, like you're forgot the Canadian, "eh", eh.
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  21. And JBP pointed out the Yin/Yang of that position, it's dance between the two, and will be for the near future. That's why were are seeing backlash from Comics, and soon, hopefully, from the Press.
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  22. I understood clearly how JBP defines "value", as did Shakespeare when he wrote, "To Be, Or Not to Be", or Sartre when he wrote, "Being and Nothingness". You may think you have chosen a different path than an "endless pursuit of an undefined value", but for you, as with all of us, the pursuit will most assuredly end. Make Hay while the sun shines my organic cell based friend, who cannot help to grow, change and pursue value by choosing life over death.
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  23.  @danedds1068  To paraphrase the "Oxford Man", - "To Mean, or not to Mean, that's the question" Start with the question, the answer will make itself known.
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  24. I understood JBP to mean the US followed the English Common Law system started with the Magna Carta, a proto-constitution, which separated the Kings Court and Church Court from the "Common Man", establishing in essence the beginning of individual sovereignty in England, which is still the best framework for producing the greatest good for the greatest number. Which even today stands as a brute fact. 3/4's of the world live under some form of the "Common Law" system brought into full flower by Henry II. “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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  25. Some of the time, he's talking about you! I only wish you were courageous enough to learn "WTF" he's saying about you.
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  26. Rosy: OMG, haven't heard the name Marcuse in decades, it was almost as prevalent a name on campus from the 30's to the 50's as Che, is today. Your are correct. I think he places too much emphasis on Marxist theory, because most of the SJW I run into don't look that deeply into the fuller context of cultural development, they just don't care. I think their views are much more degenerative than that, and go back before the Enlightenment, and to what we had in Medieval times, pure dominance of one peoples over another. I live in a Condo in the US, and in 2016, a new HUD housing law came into effect that requires HOA boards to set up an "Inquisition" to police the rights of the "9 protected" classes of people. If you look at who is protected, well, everyone.... you can be fined by this law, which could lead to jail time. This is bad, very bad, and needs to stop.
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  27. Vir, you think Rosy is Jew bating, did cross my mind, since many in the Frankfurt school were Jews... good question. oh, i am sorry,, some people may not know that "khazrarian" is code, used by antisemities, for eastern Europeans, who they claim to be "fake" Jews, but are not, something that's been totally debunked. Go ahead, try the 13th tribe, it's a no go..
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  28. No, check out 7:30 and the invasion of the Power Seekers.
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  29. Thank you for confirming his assertions about "revolution" and the law of unintended consequences, something you have no intention to consider before you act.
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  30. How do you evaluate "The Best" if you cancel them apriori? That's what JBP is saying.
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  31.  @michaelsorensen7567  I've heard JBP speak on "Free Speech" many times, he is not an absolutist 53:20. I fear your model because it is the tyranny of the majority, and pure democracy does not give us the greatest good for the greatest number.
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  32.  @michaelsorensen7567  I believe the "questioner" was in favor of "safe places" where free speech is regulated by the group, and that there should be a limit on "privileged speech". He asked Jordan to agree with him, and he did, but went on to qualify his answer, which was brilliant. In 1987 I began research on a subject that was not well published, and I would wait weeks for a book to arrive on inter-library loan, which I then had to return in 2-weeks. That drove me in 1994 to become one of the first WWW publishers, and to promote services like Wiki and search algorithms. Hypertext was a revolution in publishing. Unfortunately, there have been many unintended consequences from that revolution yet to be rectified and corrected. In 1994, Al Gore officially commercialized the WWW, and in doing so, pushed an economic model of EYEBALLS for sale. This was not the only choice at the time, but one forced on us by both government officials and economic predators, neither would consider the consequences of their actions. We tried, there was a "White Paper" suggesting a "public utility" version for bandwidth delivery, and a model of commerce less driven by "the mob", but it was ignored. EYEBALLS, 30 years later, are the product, more's the pity.
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  33. This talk is 3 years old, perhaps JBP would have a higher resolution response today.
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  34. 5 5: "Might be a qualified psychologist", that speaks to you bias. Noam Chomsky also speaks outside his specialty. Any issue with him?
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  35. Josef K: Noam Chomsky speaks outside his discipline, any issue with him?
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  36. Boris B: Yes, I sometimes find JBP's answers on God to be disingenuous. It's not that he cannot answer, he is choosing NOT to answer. My impression from many hours of listening to JBP is his foundation for God is based on Jungian concept Archetypes, and that Christianity just happens to currently be the best "receiver" of those Archetypes. So, in the God hierarchy, Jesus currently holds the power position. But I don't think JBP believes that it is a permanent position, and he's certainly not waiting for the return of Jesus. He may also believe these archetypes are passed along genetically, and why he told Sam Harris he is Judeo-Christian, whether he believed it or not.
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  37. Well, said, and speaks more about you, than him.
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  38. JBP is from a rural Provence in Canada, not unlike the mythic "Wild West" of the US, in northern Alberta. The John Wayne walk is natural to that area.
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