Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. 20:00 -- JP: "The philosopher, ah, German philosopher, what's his name" -- RB: "You have to narrow that one down" -- JP: "Yes, ah, the phenomenologist" -- RB: "Husserl?" -- JP: "No, his student" -- RB: "Heidegger." -- JP: "Heidegger!" .............. Listening to two unquestionably brilliant and well-educated men talking about these subjects, this is what the university should be! Not the woke nonsense that we get nowadays.
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  2. "These things don't stay in the universities." No kidding.
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  3. "“The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts. (...) The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials 'for the sake of humanity,' and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”" - CS Lewis
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  4. "America is second to none in generating motivational narratives" And yet so many of us needed a Canadian psychology professor to get motivated.
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  5. "I'm not saying you must do these things, I'm not your dad" That's hilarious Konstantin, you just gave the whole game away by admitting that there was somebody who had the role of requiring good actions of someone.
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  6. "Thinking of evil as focused within, is much better than thinking of evil as focused without." From Christian liturgy: "I have sinned against God in thought, word, and deed" -- atheists complain about God holding your thoughts against you, but there are good reasons for focusing on within rather than without. (Also, it's the place where you want to win the struggle, before it spills out into the world.)
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  7. They are simply providing evidence as to why they should be disbanded.
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  8. The Right Stuff is a classic. Find it and watch it now! Also, Quaid's portrayal of Doc Holliday is the best ever set to film.
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  9. History in 2100: "How did we react to the Covid pandemic in 2020?" "We panicked."
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  10. "People will feel more unified if we have good jobs that pay well" Yes. That's why we don't want wages at lower levels to completely collapse by flooding the labor market with illegal immigrants.
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  11.  @squatch545  Who's the one mindlessly accepting things? There is zero evidence that there were ever any mass graves -- the original hysteria was caused by some kind of plumbing issue.
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  12. Can we fight back instead of fleeing the field? Maybe it was just a tactical retreat for you, but that means it's all the more important for you to make a contribution only you can make, to the counterattack.
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  13. You cannot simultaneously have both a "15-minute city" and a free market. The ability to choose which church, cultural center, or stores that you will do business with, is predicated on having more than one accessible to you.
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  14. "People who aren't raised in the Christian tradition reject the parable of the snake in the garden" I dunno about that -- Professor Peterson, when you were on that lecture tour, how open were your audiences to that story? Pinker, you might want to revisit some of your assumptions here.
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  15.  @emil_rainbow  His publications, his relevant experience with atmospheric models, and his honesty in describing how those models actually (don't) work.
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  16. Sue the Canadian government for money to rebuild.
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  17. It's just so incredibly dark, though
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  18. "The greatest bloodbaths of history were moralistic crusades." Haven't read much about the Mongols, I suppose. They were bloodier than Christians ever were. Rational Atheists, on the other hand, were at least 10x more deadly than the Mongols...
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  19. The Social Justice Left "secretly" despises people who don't think their way? What's secret about it?
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  20. 55:10 - the atomic bomb had more to do with the move away from large-scale war, rather than the United Nations or universalism.
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  21. Mr. Birchum needs to do an episode with a Jewish kid, who doesn't know how to come out to his parents that he wants to work with his hands and be a carpenter.
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  22. "Our idea of whether a story is inherently good or bad, depends on the coherence of the values of the story" Unfortunately for us, we also value novelty in our stories -- the old stories are "boring" or "old-fashioned", mapped territory, been-there-done-that. One reason Wokism is failing now, is that it's got the been-there-done-that feel of a fashion on its way out, without having any enduring intellectual value whatsoever.
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  23. You guys need to do at least two more of these, and do some deep dives into other subjects from there.
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  24. "It's the smallest number of people causing the most extreme amount of havoc" Yes. This is what happens when you centralize power and control. A small number of extremists can spend a minimal amount of energy against the specific points of control, and achieve an extreme amount of influence.
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  25. "Darwinism cannot model the future, but we can." We have conscious souls, and consciences. Darwinism doesn't. The first half of the 20th century demonstrated this quite handily.
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  26. "Why is it good that individuals and not the state should be responsible for economic provision?" Because in the end, an actual individual is the one doing the work to make that economic provision happen, and that individual knows more than the government does about how to make that happen.
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  27. Andrew Doyle: "Tolkien [is a book where] where bad people look bad and good people look good" Tolkien: "“At last Frodo spoke with hesitation. 'I believed that you [Strider] were a friend before the letter came,' he said, 'or at least I wished to. You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way the servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would - well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand”" Also, did you miss the bit where the Ring called out to the evil in people, and used it (even if it started with good intention) to twist them into something horrible? Kind of an important point, that. Even the Orcs were elves, once.
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  28. The reason the fine-tuning argument is powerful, is that it would be completely impossible to adapt to circumstances where the constants were not tuned as they are. Stars would not form. Galaxies would not form. Molecules would not form. It's a game that's not just difficult to play or would have to be adapted to, but is impossible to play.
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  29. "What would reparations look like?" Well, we could start by allowing people who are actually enslaved today, to sue the human traffickers that are trading them an exploiting them. Start with the clear-cut cases, and explore more complex situations from there.
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  30. "We assume strangers don't mean us any harm" And you can thank Christian civilization for that.
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  31. A couple of points that can add to this debate: - It might be useful to stop thinking of Twitter as an American company, and start thinking of it as an Indian company. The most powerful C-level staffers are Indian (Agrawal, Gadda), and they have influential advisors from India's intelligence community. - India has had problems with rumor spreading on social media, several years ago; it might be useful to bring the details of those events into the discussion here.
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  32. A moment of silence for Professor Jordan Peterson. The Wise King has gone willfully blind, preferring to turn a blind eye to 2020 election anomalies.
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  33. "The more complicated the cognitive activity, the better at it people who have high general cognitive ability are. Now, there isn't anything more complicated than reading other people." Yes, but there is an instinctive tendency present in most humans to preferentially observe human faces. This is measurable even in pre-verbal babies, as we can track eye movements to determine where their attention is directed. Most babies prefer to look at faces and human forms, as opposed to having their eyes attracted to other things -- motion, for example. Some babies' eyes are NOT attracted to faces in the same way. These babies can be predicted with significant accuracy to display symptoms on the autistic spectrum, later in life. Think about it -- if the data your eyes take in during your most formative years, is of facial expressions, you're going to have significantly more well-grounded intuition connecting facial expressions to basically every other stimulus you're taking in at the time. Even people with the most amazing cognitive abilities, are going to have a hard time replacing that well-educated intuition with conscious efforts, at the speed of conversation. I accept that "EQ" correlates with IQ in general, but I would bet that in people who can be demonstrated to lack the preference for looking at others' faces, the linkage is significantly weaker (although the trend would likely be the same, as their cognitive ability leaves them able to compensate somewhat). On the other hand, people who are not tied to a preference to observe the faces of others, are more free to observe other things. In some cases, this gives them an extraordinarily different baseline of observations and intuitions on non-human subjects, which can push them towards the tail end of distributions that serve them well at places like CalTech.
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  34. The moral of this story? IF YOU EVER GIVE THE GOVERNMENT POWER OVER THE ECONOMY, YOU WILL WRECK THE ECONOMY. This is true even if they do it "for health reasons". The consequences for interference in the economic web, are disastrous.
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  35. "If people were given utopia, they would immediately break it, so that they could have their own capricious way." Professor, have you looked into the old Russian trope of "the superfluous man"? It seems like a lot of your overall philosophy flows from that.
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  36. Dr. Peterson, please listen to all of Eisenhower's Farewell Address. His warning against "Scientific-Technological Elites" is even more vital to your message today, than his more famous quote about the military-industrial complex. You should try to interview Thomas Sowell as well, on the topic of Public Intellectuals, if the two of you could tolerate the irony of such a conversation.
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  37. I dunno. Most of his recent appearances he sounds a lot less irritated than he did in this one. Sometimes he sounds like he's in pain, but not nearly so irritable.
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  38. "Those of us who are clearly smarter than everyone else and ought to tell everyone else what to do, won't be able to get dates, unless we make dating a lottery system that we can rig so we can get the hottest girls for ourselves." Plato, The Republic (Book five, section one)
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  39. "How is it you're still practicing?" "I work with good people" Yeah, there are a WHOLE lot more good people out there than we think.
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  40. "The Left doesn't look for strong leaders" No, but they fall to them. See: the interaction between the anarcho-socialists and the Soviet socialists that George Orwell describes in Homage to Catalonia.
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  41. "We can't have our traditional American freedoms unless we regulate ourselves through traditional American religion" Yes. Beware of people who claim to hate religion out of a love of freedom -- often it's a hatred of freedom that leads to that hatred of religion. Although in the end, the opposition to Christian religion leads to the ascendancy of chaos, and on to the abolition of freedom, whether you love freedom or hate it.
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  42. You know, this explains so much of the nonsense that The Narrative(TM) pushes out on a regular basis -- "campus r*pe culture", utterly absurd assault statistics, and the like. Naomi Wolf had a bad experience, and she's generalizing it to parts of the country it just simply doesn't apply. Thank you, Dr. Peterson, for helping us find the explanation for otherwise baffling public discussions.
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  43. Sued for wrongful death, in the case of kids who have ended their lives over this.
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  44. She certainly needs therapy from the way she's been mistreated. Would that she'd gotten it before pushing insanity into The Narrative(TM) that the Left keeps chanting.
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  45.  @LarsTragel-zh7ei  What makes you say that, other than tribal affiliation?
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  46. "World War 1 put the continent of Europe through a bandsaw for no gain whatsoever" The best explanation of WW1 I've seen, is it decided whether the Austro-Hungarian Empire was still a Great Power (spoilers: It wasn't) or whether Russia could tear off its Slavic Balkan territories (spoilers: they couldn't). The massive steel-producer Germany used the opportunity to issue a Mahanite challenge to the declining steel-producer Britain on the high seas in the name of imperial expansion (Shocking twist: Jutland was indecisive), and any idea of a short war was overwhelmed by the static grind of the land war on the Western Front. Everything anyone expected at the beginning of the war basically backfired, except for the dismantling of the Hapsburg Empire. The collapse of the Romanovs, Hohenzollerns, and Ottomans were unintended consequences, an exception to Mahan's doctrine of the decisive naval battle was discovered, and the idea of short, splendid little wars, was thrown into its worst repute since the Treaty of Westphalia.
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  47. 41:40 - You're NOT a ship at the mercy of the wind. You're a ship guided by a star, wherever the winds and currents happen to be going.
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  48. "Single mothers, you're inadequate" We need to de-stigmatize this phrase. It needs to be part of our cultural wisdom. We need to have stories where single mothers are the villain, and jokes where they're the punch line. But we also need to have a redemption arc for them, involving a man helping them out in return for their kindness.
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  49. This has been a LONG time coming. Great to see it happen finally!
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  50. According to several media outlets in India, 40% of these truckers are Sikh.
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