Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Марксизм: Жижек / Петерсон: официальное видео" video.

"Happiness is bad, because it makes people unhappy." ~Slavoi Zizek, 2019
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Let's debate Marxism with someone, who disagrees with Marx and another, who doesn't know what he wrote.
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But Peterson clearly DOESN'T believe in a god. He just thinks that it's a good thing to say that he does.
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@davidmano9050 >Acting as if capitalist powers assisting 3rd world countries He said nothing about third world countries being assisted. That's something you came up with out of the blue. >is what destroyed the infrastructures, economies, and societies of those nations in the first place Nope. Imperalism is what created that infrastructure, the economies and often the societies in the first place. The latter sometimes to the detriment of people in those societies. And afterwards it wasn't handouts that lifted people out of poverty as you imply, but rather trade: economic growth and governmental institutions that aren't corrupt.
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@davidmano9050 >Other governments are only "incompetent" based on capitalist and Eurocentric ideals of right and wrong. I guess having food and not being raped are "Eurocentric ideals"?
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@Random_Number That sentence alone implies a particularly snobbish obscurantism. It's quite obvious that Peterson doesn't believe in any gods. He just thinks that it's good to pretend to.
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@jig6894 A powerful spirit that takes interest in human affairs.
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@joeupton7058 Yeah that has been the mantra of reactionaries since antiquity. If you think that things get worse when things get better, I guess there is no reason to look for improvements. The reality is of course the opposite. Wise men make good times, which make even wiser men, who make even better times. When you are fighting for survival, you are not usually inclined to be curious and nuanced and open in your thinking.
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@stephenhughes2526 If that was true, victims of bullying and veterans would have the strongest characters, when in reality they suffer from depression and often kill themselves.
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@latioswarr3785 No, greatness comes when you are perfectly safe and have free time. I don't know the name of a single person struggling to stay alive, I know the names of hundreds of philosophers, mathematicians and scientists.
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