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

  1. It's almost like God is sorting us out.
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  2. You get a charge from a live audience that you don't get, remotely.
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  3.  @lglge611  There've been long stretches of time and broad territories, when Muslims were far more truth-seeking than backward Christians in Europe. But the problem with both faiths is the intolerant few tend to be the ones most (violently) puritanical. Islam rejuvenated decrepit Gothic civilization in Spain. But then the radical Islamists (basically the Muslim version of Iconoclasts in Rome) swept through, and Islam turned intolerant and expansionist. It's sad. Open-minded, truth-seeking Muslims made Spain a much better place. Showed better ways of thriving in that climate. Brought architectural wonders, and great water works.
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  4. "Narcissists of compassion."
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  5. Meh. In a meritocracy, people who are educated and work their asses off tend to show up in all walks of life, concentrated at the top. Both education and work ethic run deep in Jewish culture, whether they be practicing religionists or not. Next question.
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  6. LOL! You got so many kudos, I needed to screw up my eyes and zero-in your picture. Caught one of your soliloquies some months ago, so I caught 3 or 4, because you were so articulate and on-the-mark. Kudos!
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  7. btdtpro: That's a wonderful idea.
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  8. ReaverXXI: You do all the 2-AM ranting you want.
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  9. Imagine what a parent could do to educate their child with the $10-15,000 we pay, PER PUPIL, to k-12 public schools. For about $1000 per year, you can hook up your kid with SOLID online learning management systems. The other $8-13,000 will buy a lot of organized activities, such as sports, the arts, music, whatever the parent wanted. At the lowest level, around $10,000 per pupil per year, that's $100,000 for 10 students. One good teacher could do 10 kids a lot of good for $100,000!!!! Maybe we don't need all those superintendents, vice-principals, equity-and-diversity officers, building maintenance crews, and miscellaneous paper-pushers!
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  10. It's not gender-affirming surgery. It's gender-denying surgery.
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  11.  @jamesford622  : As I understand it, 1984 was a result of his experiences in Spain.
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  12. Uranium mines are huge strip-mine affairs and waste disposal is problematic in the not-in-my-backyard sense. Breeder reactors would go a long way towards reducing the footprint, but then you run into nuclear proliferation issues. There's no energy source without trade-offs. That tiny amount of U-235 requires mining megatons of uranium ore and a huge investment of energy (gaseous diffusion, centrifuges, or whatever they use to separate chemically-identical U-235 isotope from its useless U-238 isotope).
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  13. That's the one I need to start living. Tomorrow.
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  14. It can make you helpless or it can motivate you. Peterson decided, like Lincoln, to work his way through it.
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  15.  Jermaine  : I'm not sure if this is satire or stupidity.
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  16.  Jermaine  : I THOUGHT you were being satirical. You were just so good at it. Maybe you should team up with the Big 3, and become a hoaxer of great prominence. You have a gift for it. I'm not sure if being British connotes any sort of racial characteristics. I don't think it does. You sound like a smart American, to me.
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  17.  @iankclark  : Helen's my favorite of the three. For some reason, I just saw her as American, in spite of her accent.
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  18.  @ladderallthinking8790  : Some key ideas I like from Britain were brought to the Isle by Germanic tribes*, with a "first among equals" idea for leaders, and if you didn't like a leader, you simply stopped following him! The notion that the king is answerable to his subjects is largely a Germanic/Scandinavian concept. The idea of a king being "anointed by God" came from France. Still Norsemen. Just Norse who were 'civilized' by vestiges of the Roman Empire. Catholicism was a great unifying principle for kings who wanted to hegemonize large territories. *From David Starkey's "Monarchy."
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  19.  Chris Indermuehle  : You're the 2nd person I've seen on the Interwebz who agrees with me on this. The supposedly liberal-minded people are the people who created the zeitgeist and the institutional framework that enabled and empowered these postmodernist assholes in the first place. Gave them HUGE levers, so a small number of LUNATICS could move the entire country in a VERY unhealthy direction, via bloated and too-powerful institutions "for our own good." TRUE liberals - CLASSICAL liberals - understand that the main thing people need from government is to be LEFT THE HELL ALONE! The bureaucracy is the new aristocracy. Liberty-minded people have seen - and warned against - so-called "liberals'" government-centric solutions to all problems associated with the human condition. And now that the "true liberals" are FINALLY seeing the madness, they are totally blind to their own hand in creating it. Of COURSE our institutions were going to be hijacked by postmodernists or something quite similar. The mistake was giving centralized institutions so much power over everything. Back in the '80s, I called it the iron fist inside the velvet glove. Nanny government is just an engine of tyranny waiting for bad times and/or pathological individuals to subvert to their own malevolent ends. They don't even have to be malevolent to cause tremendous pathology and suffering. It's infuriating the way they act all surprised at the way things are heading. They fed the dragon for DECADES and now they cry out in shock and horror when it razes the town with its flaming exhalations. This is exactly what the left have been asking for, and now they're pissed at everyone but themselves when they GOT what they asked for. The tripod of fascist oppression is state-run media, education and health. That's all Hitler needs. That's what we've got. It's the same in the USA as the UK, only in the USA, the media controls are - or rather were until quite recently - below the level of public perception. American health system is also essentially run (very inefficiently) by government, although no one seems to understand, let alone admit it. Now the mask is slipping. I just hope it's not too late. So many are hopelessly captured. On the bright side, the Hate Mobs are very fickle. Today's protester is tomorrow's victim. Just have ONE thought of your own, and the mob turns on you. This "red-pills" a lot of liberals, who, to their credit, often discover principles of liberty and free speech quite late in life, when NOTHING would have budged them from their convictions, otherwise. To their discredit, they were FINE with running roughshod over others, as long as they were an accepted member of the mob.
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  20.  Seven V  : There was at least one Kraut who whipped our militia into a legitimate continental army. And a Frog or two, as well were instrumental in our gaining our independence. It's a very mixed bag, our history with the French. Napoleon Bonaparte was a right bastard, but he did what he could to help the colonies win their independence. America would've remained a British colonial possession for MUCH longer if Britain weren't locked in a death struggle with Napoleon.
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  21. Satire is of the outsiders looking in. It is innately a tool of the left. Suppressing satire as "hate speech" or "sedition" is a hallmark of the right. So who is liberal and who is regressive in today's society?
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  22. Yes, RanEncounter. This is why the left's constant state of "We're in crisis and government must act!" solutions always fail and create tidal effects nobody notices 'til the basement's flooded. Sadly, no one is questioning the solutions. Instead, they call those who say "Maybe government isn't the solution" a racist, and scream for more money for the same failed policies.
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  23. Yeah, Steeltrap. I think the guy talking about quick fixes was making a point about self-reliance versus victim mentality. If anybody's guilty of quick-fix mentality, it's the left, who e that throwing money taken by force from one group and given to another group, is only being practical. "Conservatives," generally speaking, think longer term, and (some of us) SEE the unintended consequences and self-defeating nature of cookie-cutter solutions offered by a pretty simple-minded leftist formula of fairness. Loss of prosperity is unfair to EVERYone.
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  24. Steeltrap: I think the conservative guy was making a point about self-reliance, as opposed to victim-mentality subservience to the State. And most situations are best solved by the people affected, than by self-interested civil servants prescribing one-size-fits-all remedies for strangers.
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  25. Well-put, Voin. The rule set grows without pause. Our brains are constant. We are overwhelmed. We are ALL breaking some rule, law or regulation, without even knowing some asshole thought there needed to be a rule!
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  26. I doubt most of 'em are trying to destabilize society. But their acts and attitudes are no less destructive, whatever their intention.
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  27. The INSTANT a big corporation makes a sweetheart deal with government for unfair advantage, that's CRONY capitalism, the OPPOSITE of free market capitalism. It's fascist at its core, which in spite of current parlance is a creature of the modern LEFT. MOST big-wigs are big-government shills. They cry all the way to the bank every time there's a government clamp-down or new set of regs, because THEY are big enough to survive the demands of compliance, when they're not the assholes writing the regs in the first place. Progressives are the WORST enablers of fascism, and the loudest opposers. It's ironic.
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  28. I think cooperating is great, if it's voluntary. I think cooperating sucks when there's not a single individual in the collective who's worth a damn, and collectivism is in direct opposition to anybody being worth a damn!
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  29. Right, left, conservative, liberal. None of these terms have much meaning. Most of the thoughtful people on the so-called right are classical liberals. We want our liberties, and we don't want the monarchy to sneak in the back door with offers of Free Stuff.
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  30.  @TheJeremyKentBGross  Religion has been a system of control since Roman times,at least. The new thing about the 20th (and 21st) century is the outright replacement of religion by political ideologies, especially of the Marxist sort. "Religion is the opiate of the masses. Instead, have faith in my Ponzi scheme!"
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  31. "Twitter is the de facto public square." - Elon Musk I think that's the problem. Don't pine over being banned. REJOICE! I don't twit. Never did. And the more I see, the happier I am with that decision. "You may no longer interact with the insane echo chamber." "Thank you."
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  32.  @The_Lord_has_it  Yes. "I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with us on this" is a common comment on both left- and right-leaning channels. When you make statements like that, you're announcing "I'm in your bubble!" to the bubble crowd. After the 2016 election, one of the things that made Democrats CERTAIN that the election was fixed was that they didn't know anyone at all who voted for Trump. This said more about their workplace and social bubble than it said about how people really were thinking. I saw a lot of that at work (academia). Lots of colleagues freaking out, looking for the ba$tard$ who voted for Trump in their midst, finding very few, but de-friending them at once. But, even in a bubble, there are going to be quite a few who think differently. They all know better than to voice their opinions at the office, if they work in a college, so the bubble is preserved for all the faithful. I don't wholly agree with conservatives or liberals. As a "true liberal," I don't like the surveillance state, the military-industrial complex, the media-industrial-complex, the health-and-welfare-industrial complex, the pro-war, regime-change neocon tendencies on left AND right.... To me, it's just being consistently anti--war and pro-freedom and pro-self-determination. Bottom-up rule, rather than top-down rule, and both so-called conservatives and so-called liberals LOVE top-down solutions once they make it to the top, regardless of party affiliations. Buy votes with handouts and fear-mongering. That's the game.
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  33. Yes. The only humane way to achieve all the environmental goals we set for ourselves is to get the government and other authoritarians out of the "save the planet" campaign. Prosperity is the key. And the key to prosperity is basic civil and human rights guaranteeing persons and their property. As soon as you're even a little bit prosperous, you tend to seek higher rungs on Maslow's ladder, including the stewardship-of-your-neck-of-the-woods rung. Wood for heating isn't as bad as you think, if it's done properly, with rocket-stove mass heat systems. But the EPA is too slow to embrace the new/old tech, and without its seal of approval, you can't get your home insured if it incorporates such concepts. There's also no way for corporations to get rich off you for implementing simple green tech. The "establishment" wants you on their grid, obeying its orders and regulations. Its idea of an environmental and energy-efficient home is a cracker box on top of the ground that doesn't breathe. Even if these bureaucrats mean well, they're unequipped to stay current and they only ask the most conspicuous robber barons how they should go about ordering us around. There are a lot of old- and new-tech ideas I'd implement in my own house in the suburbs, but most of them are "illegal." I can't capture the rain off my own roof. I can't get a permit for a rocket-stove mass heater, and even if I can, I can't get it insured, because nobody knows what to make of it.
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  34. These people are full of bad faith and even malice.
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  35. Big KISS fan. Loves his socialism. I wonder if the two are related.
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  36. It's not "intellectual terrorism." It's simple sophistry. And not even very sophisticated sophistry.
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  37. This ideology is making its rounds through our institutions. Silver lining is that our institutions were already running amok before the onset.
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  38. You are not.
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  39. As our society evolves, I can see having children younger, and then doing more career stuff, later. Instead of college, learn a trade (which can be done in high school), get a good-paying job. Then go to school, after you know a little something about the world, and you want to move on from the one trade. It's huge to have your kids raised up by the time you're 40-ish. Anyway, I can see this as a good lifestyle for a lot of people, with some making enough $$$ off their trade to retire a lot earlier than a guy who went straight from high school to college and took 4 or more years to graduate, assuming they graduated. I went the academic route, and I was upwards of 40 before I made enough money to reasonably support a family. But if I'd decided to be an electrician, I'd've been good to go by or before age 20, if I took some vo-tech.
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  40. That's an interesting correlation but I'm not sure inflation is causal. I think technology and culture would be taking us in that direction, with or without inflation. But I TOTALLY agree that inflation is how government steals money from people and makes it harder and harder to plan a retirement. If we KNEW that our money would be worth as much in 20 years as it is, today, maybe more of us would be retiring, younger. You know what an ounce of gold would buy in 100 BCE? A fine suit of clothes, from head to toe. You know what it'll buy, today? A fine set of clothes, from head to toe.
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  41. Just wanted to apologize for lowering the level of conversation. I do a lot of writing to hash things out in my mind. Put the impressions down as they're occurring. It's very self-indulgent, and I apologize.
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  42. If we're all whistleblowers, the farce ends.
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  43. He's already shared his wisdom far and wide. But we should cherish him, yes.
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  44. Religion isn't a social construct so much as something we are wired for. Just the nature of consciousness and unanswerable questions. Constructing a framework in which our existence has meaning beyond eating, shitting and dying is very good for very many people, even though it's rooted mostly in fabrication.
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  45. It is quite literally gender-denying care. Want to deny the reality of the body you were born in? Get "gender-affirming" care!
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  46. Trudeau hid because he knows he's been doing wrong.
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  47.  @premonitions1390  Meh. Sure, forgive. But don't ever COUNT on them for anything ever again. They showed their true colors.
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  48. I don't think left-nuttiness should be singled-out JUST because you're immersed in a left-lunatic milieu. It's because that nuttiness has the approval and aggressive support of all our major establishment institutions. Sure, the so-called right is prone to conspiracy theories, just like any other political persuasion. The DIFFERENCE is that none of the conspiracy-theory nuts on the right are in positions of power. I don't think you have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe that the 2020 election was stolen. There's plenty of evidence, plenty of video, plenty of DEMOCRATS complaining about Dominion voting machines (use of which was and IS an outrage) when Trump WON in 2016. Just because Hitler put his pants on one leg at a time doesn't mean that everyone who dresses the same way is a Nazi. The nutcases always shout the loudest and push the craziest conspiracy theories the hardest. That doesn't discredit the MILLIONS of people who believe - for very good reason - that their vote got the bum's rush in November, 2020.
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  49. The onus SHOULD be on the food companies to prove ANY additive is safe, and not on us to prove that they're not safe. The best solution is to get the government out of the business of regulating food, because the way it always plays out is that the government, in the name of protecting us, runs interference for the food companies, who can honestly say "We are in full 'compliance' with all laws and regulations. This has been known for millennia, by ancient Chinese philosophers.
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  50. Mainstream media is a stagnant puddle.
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