Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. They can't refute JBP, so they must smear, deplatform and censor him.
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  2. YouTube is part of the Matrix, slowly trying to herd everybody back to "approved content." And it's going to die as a result, because people won't tolerate the bullshit, any more.
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  3. The individual is the fundamental unit of humanity. "The intersectionalists will arrive at that conclusion, eventually, if they don't kill everyone, first." And when they DO reach that conclusion, they will have evolved to the level of Western Civilization of 300 years ago. They're slowly, laboriously re-inventing the wheel, centuries behind the times, and making all of us pay for their current benighted state in the meantime.
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  4. I'm pretty lax on tardy students, as long as they aren't disruptive. When they're late, they're only hurting themselves, especially when they come to me for a letter of recommendation. "Good kid. Always late." But when I drill deeper into most of the habitually-tardy students, I find that they're scrambling to get to class at all, with drop-off times for their kids that conflict with class time. A job that makes them late to school, every morning. About half my students are non-traditional, with jobs and families competing with their deep desire to improve themselves.
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  5. The horrifying thing is all the MDs who go along or just keep their heads down. The "care" to which you refer is a clear violation of the Hippocratic Oath. But after COVID, no one is surprised that the health care establishment and the common people are at odds.
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  6. A couple very telling facts: Conservatives can predict liberals, but liberals can't predict conservatives. Conservatives know what the liberals are saying, because they access information from a wide diversity of sources. Liberals do NOT know what conservatives are saying. They take the word of other liberals DESCRIBING (and mis-characterizing) conservatives, for purely partisan reasons. A lot of liberals are now seeking to appropriate terms like "echo chamber" that were coined by the right to describe the low-information liberals feeding each other nonsense, without anybody questioning their facts. They're trying to characterize anyone with a conservative view as someone who's been brainwashed by right-wing "echo chambers." LOL! You have to have an open mind and DIG to find ANYthing that's not sanitized by establishment liberals.
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  7.  @eliseofernandez8116  I read his letters to Pope Gregory in college. One of his messages was to quit preaching at people and just live a good life, treat people well and generously, and people will flock to the faith.
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  8. I'm concerned about Russian expansionism. I just don't think "the West" has the moral high ground, or the economic wherewithal to defend liberty abroad. As an American, I wish our government did more (i.e. do less meddling) to support liberty here at home!
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  9. It only became bad when the wrong person (Trump) said the same thing. Now that he HAS said it, it's obviously HITLER!!!
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  10. There's also a deep-down sense that there would be enough resources for every need, if only men would distribute those resources more fairly. So when a greasy politician comes along and promises to care for all the poor, women (and a lot of men) just naturally think that the solution to poverty is simple, just a matter of a small bit of tax and then perfectly fair redistribution by saintly, ethical, and infinitely more sensible bureaucrats than all the beastly men they know.
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  11. Yes. Anti-language. Is it eugenics? Are they taking people with mental illness and sterilizing them by various means? Thanks, Dr. Haim, for taking a stand. The world stands with you. The institutions do not. How can we help you?
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  12. Traditional lecture is a HUGE ego boost to the instructor. Students raised in passive learning from all-wise lecturers insist it's the way they learn best. As a long-time professor, I believe 2 things: Traditional lecture is grossly inefficient, with the tools and on-demand availability of knowledge, and students confuse being entertained with best learning. Still, some professors DO put on a helluva show. Put those talks on video, and use "professors" to answer questions.
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  13. There's a lot of filler in most long-form channels. They know people want it. They just don't have enough to say to make the time worth it. That never happens with JBP, although you have to ration how much of it you try to absorb in any given day!
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  14.  @jasondashney  Your apology for those who kept their heads down is unconvincing. This is how the Nazi death camps became a thing. "Everybody else is doing it, and the authorities tell me this is right." Very sad.
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  15.  @DundG  Some of the most strident anti-woke do seem to come at it from a regressive perspective. I'm anti-woke, because I'm a classical liberal, and I want everyone treated the same, regardless of immutable characteristics over which they have no control. I'm anti-woke because I know socialism on a large scale doesn't work, because you put all the power to call all the shots in the hands of a very small number of people. Spread out the power. Spread out the risk.
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  16. Social media accelerates the rate at which ideas spread. Both good and bad ideas. But it's not like bad ideas were invented in 2013. I know what you're saying about Tik-Tok, but all the stupid fads you see going around are really not embraced by as many people as it seems. Also, for every bad idea that gets traction, there's a good idea that can also spread, virally. The longer Tik-Tok and other social media are around, the more positive I think it will be. Long-term users figure out what helps them and what doesn't help them, and things kind of naturally lean that way, whichever way it is, over time. Just because we can all see the cultish behavior rising and falling doesn't mean that people weren't trapped in cults of all kinds over the years before social media. It was just not as easy for the rest of us to see, because virtually everything we saw was curated by a handful of rich people. As long as we stay one step ahead of the censors, and I don't see how we cannot, short of breaking the Internet. And if our would-be controllers break the Internet, they're basically breaking their own institutional means of control, because it will signal a total failure by the institutions so bent on controlling us! LOL! In any case, if the establishment breaks the Internet because we, the people, get too uppity, Tik-Tok will be the least of our problems.
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  17. It's kind of a perfect storm of culture and chemicals in the food.
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  18. Dad wants to make sure there's enough for everybody. Mom notices when Katy's off her feed. Sometimes chaos needs to be checked. Sometimes order needs to be checked. Perfect order is total chaos in waiting. Managed chaos is the Tao.
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  19.  @jasondashney  yes. Doctors do nothing but conform to their schools in order to earn their MD. Then they have to keep their heads down during residency, and avoid pissing anybody off. It's quite a big investment. I understand it. But I have no respect for it.
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  20. Yes. Kathy Newman interview gave him more stature and brought him to the attention of many. There were also many who appreciated him before that. I didn't hear of him until he took his stand against compelled speech in Toronto. If not for Canada's C16, I never would've heard of him, and he'd probably be quite content as a professor!
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  21. ReaverXXI: I think Germany is farther down the road of identity politics than the U.S. Luckily for us, our Constitution sets a higher threshold for laws infringing on free speech. Folks are surely d to circumvent (or ignore) the Law, but there's still a lot of resistance to what's going on, unchecked, in parliamentary countries in Europe. Also, the election of Donald Trump means the packing of the courts by "because this is how I feel and to hell with your objective facts and the law" judges aren't getting appointed. The courts are America's achilles heel. If you can pack them with fellow travelers, the law is what they say it is.
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  22. Enlisting used to be a good way to learn discipline. Now it puts you under the command of some very scary people.
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  23. Yes it is. Antifa are communists who only oppose fascism because it's a competing form of socialism.
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  24. He's been lecturing on these topics for decades. He's got these talks pretty well honed. As a lecturer, I found it very palling to give the same talks over and over, with every point, every little joke, everything planned and choreographed. That's when I shifted to video. Put that talk in the can. Share it with students. Free up class time for questions and independent student work. Most students can slurp up the knowledge faster than the most brilliant lecturer can provide it. I'm in math. But I imagine the same applies to other disciplines. Most students can process the notes (or a transcript) more quickly than a person can write it or say it. And for those who are SLOWER than the lecturer, a video that they can pause, or notes that they can pore over for longer periods are much more helpful than a lecture that's too fast and too advanced for them in real-time. Learning is the ultimate, individualized activity. "Great lectures" are kind of obsolete.
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  25.  @UltraDTA  I think you're right. I fear things must get worse before they get better, however.
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  26. The problem with what we call "liberals" in the USA is that they always jump straight from recognizing an inequity to some RIDICULOUS and counter-productive policy prescription. Peterson puts it very succinctly: Just because I oppose your poverty program doesn't mean I'm FOR poverty, you nincompoop! You're just offering simple-minded one-size-fits-all solutions to problems that are VERY complex, without ANY reasonable consideration of unintended consequences. Society, as it exists, consists of a MULTITUDE of interactions and interdependencies with which you meddle at your peril. Nobody more dangerous than the person who says "I just read Marx and now I'm going to re-make the world."
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  27. He's apparently recovering and making some appearances.
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  28. A lot of people South of the border supported the truckers. But what are we to do when they use the banks against us?
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  29.  @fraserbailey6347  FAIK, JBP's revisited the relevant research more recently than Trembley, himself. Trembley still can dredge up more of the minutiae of the experimental design, but he's probably done quite a few things since then, and JBP prepared specifically for and asked for the interview. He prob'ly just wanted Trembley to be himself, which he was, I think.
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  30. You always get overtaken by climbers, cynics and power-seekers when you BECOME the establishment. That's why there's so much cognitive dissonance about "speaking truth to power." Liberals ARE the power, but in the process of TAKING power, they're now exactly like the reactionaries they defeated, starting with the peace movement of the 1960s. They're even MORE prone to this kind of corruption because they absolutely see themselves as outsiders, speaking for the disenfranchised and disadvantaged. The welfare state's been in place long enough, the poverty and disadvantage we see can be laid at the feet of liberals, who still think that MORE wrong-headed policies are needed to repair the harm done by the ORIGINAL wrong-headed policies. They can't blame Republicans (USA) or Conservatives (UK) for homelessness, crime and poverty. They have to OWN it..
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  31. UPDATE: Shepherd was just banned for life from Twitter, for calling the person who'd been harassing her (and others) a fat, ugly man.
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  32.  @carolineleiden  Pretty much. Good people don't want that power.
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  33. The left had to fight for it in the 1960s. Now we have to fight against the left to regain it.
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  34. Yes. Incompetence or malevolence are the only two possibilities.
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  35.  @GraceCanadaful  Their value is in the work that goes into finding and reporting the facts. They all think that means we want their opinion about the facts.
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  36. He looks a good deal older to me after the events of the last two years.
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  37. Surround yourself with people who can think for themselves and who actually respect the rights of others.
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  38.  @henrikljungstrand2036  It all flows from "I am" and "Life is good." I think that's why people call God the Great I Am. To me, it's an attempted distillation of universal and self-evident truths that all flow from "Life Is Good" and "I Am" is the fundamental assertion of self-awareness. I don't see that as necessarily mystical, and I don't have to believe in some anthropomorphic, yet invisible sky god to believe in those fundamental truths. I can respect Creation and be grateful to Creation and the Big Is, without getting denominational or Hindu or Abrahamic to glean wisdom from all of the above. I think of the Bible as a collection of some of our greatest hits! In many ways a blueprint for tribal survival that stood the test of time, and is not to be dismissed lightly. But it's still a work of imperfect humans, and when the law says one thing and reason says another, ya gotta be a heretic.
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  39. One of the hallmarks of a religion is the sophistication required to fully master the entirety of the dogma. It's harder than you think, because so much of it doesn't hold up to real scrutiny. A subject is much easier to learn when it's not shot through with contradictions and the mental gymnastics required to wallpaper them over. Critical Race experts are not stupid people. They just know a lot of things that aren't so.
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  40. In the end, she's supportive of big institutions with overwhelming power and scope to do the most good, and she'll always be shocked when these too-powerful institutions get things wrong and suddenly, out of nowhere, tyranny. People like her are too clever by half. They can sustain delusions over long spans of time with increasingly clever mental gymnastics.
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  41. At Trade School, you don't get a certificate if you don't have the skill.
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  42. I didn't count on any one source. Many sources dried up minutes after posting. I happened to be laid up and so I was online to witness it all and actually SEE the silencing take place in real time.
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  43. Robin Barlett: You're describing the institution of Thought Police! Oh, and your sister is absolutely wasting her money and harming society by choosing gender studies, which is misguided ideology masquerading as science. It's a shame, because I think there's a lot to be learned about the spectrum of humanity. It's just utterly stupid when you go from this important area of bio research to making it a crime when you use the wrong pronoun with somebody.
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  44. Yes. Administration is spiraling out of control in many if not most institutions, but especially educational institutions, due to lack of any kind of competition. There's no danger to adding more bureaucracy. Only rewards. Everybody but faculty focused on teaching and research like it.
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  45. Knocks it outta the park.
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  46. I think if you can get a kid hooked on reading, it's not that unusual to be reading at a 12th-grade level by 6th grade. For me, it was adventure stories. I never "worked" to get better. I just really enjoyed reading good stories! I'm glad I got to read unabridged "Tarzan" before it was deemed problematic and racist. It was pretty racist, but you can talk to a kid about those bits.
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  47. That can work for many years, but the safe path is a sure path to eventual self-destruction.
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  48.  @emperorstevee  ; i disagree. If education were truly run like a business, you'd get better and better education at lower and lower prices. What you're describing isn't really a business. You describe a RACKET. And the fact that we're all here discussing this wonderful lecture, and it's being delivered at zero marginal cost (cost of your Internet, essentially, but no additional cost for additional content, once the infrastructure's there), says that our institutions of learning are horribly dysfunctional. Year by year, we pay MORE for a product that is of poorer and poorer quality! If education were the purpose of our public school system, it wouldn't look anything like what it looks like, now. It is, instead, a means for the state to indoctrinate the youth, but MORE importantly, keep a lot of not-good teachers employed. Heck, even allowing that most teachers mean well and do an OK job, you see our institutions of learning as nothing more or less than a sinecure for incompetent administrators. They're the ones getting most of the money, and the only thing that grows in these institutions is the number and salaries of administrators! Get that office remodel. Gut the classrooms for safe spaces and administrators' private fiefdoms. Teachers buying their own damn materials so that kids can have paper to write on, and something to write with. No money for that sort of thing. Budgets are tight. But what we REALLY need is an office of diversity and equity that we got along fine without for centuries, and whose only purpose is apparently to go look for grievances and impose mandatory trainings in intersectionality and critical race theory. Total waste of everybody's time and taxpayers' money. And if they're successful with their equity and diversity, then students will be protesting their oppression! When college is closed down for a 'day of absence,' you have succeeded in your program, and all that remains is rooting out the last remaining white supremacists on campus, preferably with roaming bands of pissed-off students. Public education, as we know it, is nothing more or less than a ridiculously expensive jobs programs for school administrators!
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  49. Can't handle nuance? Go back to the comfort of CBS.
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  50.  @denisegaylord382  I like to think I have a strong moral center, but as far as "backbone" goes, it's not courageous to speak your mind if it's your NATURE to speak your mind. I never make a conscious decision to be brave. More like, I just never had a very good filter.
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