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

  1. "Your conscience is what tells you your current identity is not optimized for your current situation" That's Nietzschean thinking, believing moral value (and therefore conscience) was infinitely malleable by the Will. Can you really agree with that, after reading Crime and Punishment?
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  2. We got here by thinking we didn't need God anymore.
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  3. @SeedsofEcofrog No. The taxpayer does not get hurt, for the reason I pointed out; the hurt had already been done. If the CCTV had not been put up in the first place, the taxpayer would not have been hurt.
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  4. Dr. Peterson, don't let your attachment to something they control, allow them to control you. You are vastly more qualified to train people on the subject of Social Media than anyone else in the College. Your response to this should play to your strengths -- give a lecture on Social Media, encouraging everyone following you, to be courageous, honest, and forthright, even in the face of coercion.
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  5. Would you sacrifice your access to your profession if it meant saving children from this? You will be called upon to answer that question in the not-too-distant future.
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  6. "Regular Canadians would see their speech and conduct regulated in the same way the professional societies can regulate the speech and conduct of their members" We are facing power-obsessed sociopaths, who have made a study of where the powers of compulsion lie in our system, as well as the positions with the most leeway in decision-making (such as District Attorneys). They are fortunately few; on the other hand, their strategy of "concentrate power into choke points, and control those choke points" has given them extremely outsized influence. Subsidiarity is the real solution to this problem. If individual citizens want any power over their own lives, doing everything we can to enforce this subsidiarity (and to eject these sociopaths from all of our systems of influence and power) is urgent and essential.
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  7. "Christianity pushes utopia into the ever-receding future. Does this help forestall the tendency of utopian thinking to commit atrocities in the name of the imminent eschaton?" Excellent point.
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  8. Dr. Gingrich is a very creative man. His subordinates used to say (good-naturedly, as far as I can tell) that they needed an enormous steamer trunk, labelled "Newt's Ideas". They also needed a shoebox, labelled "Newt's Good Ideas." It would be interesting to know whether, objectively speaking, Newt is one of those rare animals that is both high in creativity and high in conservatism.
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  9. "Tools will be turned into weapons. That's why we need government." Except the government is the body turning those tools into weapons. We need something above government. Our rights need to come from God, not from government, or some gameable "social contract".
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  10. "China's system got a lot more superior when it got a lot more capitalist." Yup. And the West's systems got a lot more stable when they introduced social welfare programs. (Possibly too stable, with the permanent dependent class, and all.) The Capitalist vs. Communist phase of the dialectic is over, with a range of syntheses. (Marx was wrong about the "End of History".) But, so was Fukuyama. We're seeing the thesis of Liberal Democracy now challenged by its antithesis, Authoritarian Bureaucracy. Will that take the next 30 or 40 years to work itself out? That sounds entirely plausible to me.
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  11. If you're going to be celebrating students for being bright because you think that will mean they will be successful, the best thing you can do for them is to apprentice them as quickly as possible into some practical / useful application of their knowledge. The practical application must produce something that people use, so that whatever praise the student is getting does not simply come from their production of ideas that are judged by a teacher. If their only motivation is this kind of pat on the head -- or worse, they believe down in their bones that such praise is enough to get by in this life -- that will make sure that that student's talent goes either in a useless direction or even a toxic direction.
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  12. Ensemble music over Zoom? How good is your Internet connection? Latency levels up to 250 ms absolutely destroy that, for me.
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  13. "How could a professor at Harvard forget about secular treatments?" Same way those seculars could forget that Harvard started as a seminary, I guess. Also, you can look at the sort of atrocities that secular academic bioethicists come up with on a regular basis, and think that maybe those "ethicists" are monsters occupying an institution that should have been strong enough to exorcise them rather than accept them.
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  14.  @julesjacobs1  As far as I can tell, the Mongols conquered because they could. Sometimes, motivations really are that simple.
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  15. I'll bet that within five years her husband dumps her for a younger woman.
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  16. Considering Western shenanigans in Ukraine (including, but not limited to, Joe Biden's quid pro quo withholding aid loans unless Ukraine stopped investigating the company Burisma where his son Hunter worked) do the Ukrainians really see the West as less corrupt than Putin? Does anyone?
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  17. Monogamy leads to less sexual dimophism? That's an interesting claim to just toss off.
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  18. I'm looking forward to Dr. Jordan Peterson's series of lectures on "Social Media Training". He is one of a handful of people at or near the pinnacle of expertise on this subject. Everyone could learn courage, forthrightness, and honesty on Social Media from listening to him and following his advice. Everyone -- Canadian certification boards included.
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  19. "If you approach a Conservative and say, 'Justify marriage!' it's easy to render the person inarticulate" Not if they've gone to enough Book of Common Prayer marriage services to be familiar with (and even to have memorized parts of) the liturgy. Professor, you've discussed the appeal of your thinking-out-loud fluid intelligence style of lecturing, but I think you're missing the point of the crystallized intelligence that constitutes the Christian liturgy, and the value most people gain from passing that along. I suppose you could call it "unearned knowledge", but in the case of issues at the core of the human experience (like marriage), it would take more than one lifetime to earn that knowledge, even at the rumination rate of someone like yourself. I would love to hear you give a lecture on "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of God ... [etc]" just like you've lectured on Genesis. Please start on this while you still have enough years left to give it the thought it deserves.
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  20.  @divine0enigma  Denying the very real limits of our capacity to know, is certainly hubris.
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  21. "State Street, Blackrock, etc, are investing based on the severity of the climate apocalypse that besets us" Almost. They are investing based on the expectation of future regulatory capture by the interests of Wokeness and climate apocalypse. Betting on regulations has been one of the better ways of making money on Wall Street, for some time now - and it's a whole lot easier than trying to figure out which companies will be naturally successful. These investment firms have made buying politicians and buying regulators into a virtue.
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  22. You didn't make it to 1:10:00, did you.
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  23. "It's not what's wrong with women" Are you sure that women are not being culturally conditioned to feel entitled to make demands on men that are far beyond reason? Men are being told, "You just have to sit down and shut up, you have no right to be part of this conversation". For some reason people are surprised that men are walking away from the outcome of that conversation, because that's the only option left to us.
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  24. This from the woman who practically invented the college kangaroo courts for men accused of assault? She's got a lot to live down, before she can be hailed as a hero.
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  25.  @robmorgan1214  Hold on, according to media outlets in India, 40% of these truckers are Sikh.
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  26. One confounding factor with food elimination diets, is that you're not just starving yourself, you're starving your entire gut biome. It may be that you with the help of certain key intestinal flora and fauna, you could tolerate (or even thrive on) particular types of food, that you couldn't digest at all in the absence of these helpers.
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  27.  @ethanmcquaid1  Yep, the temptation of the Ring was something that turned what was beautiful into something ugly, once its true nature was understood. Galadriel; "You offer it to me freely? I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this. In place of a dark lord you would have a queen. Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn. Treacherous as the Sea. Stronger than the foundations of the Earth. All shall love me and despair."
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  28. "Women in the workforce doubles the available pool of talent" Does it? How much impact is there on every child's performance, being involved in faceless daycare rather than being raised by their mothers?
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  29. Jordan - what you're doing in a lecture, is demonstrating fluid intelligence. What you're doing in a TV interview, is displaying finely-polished crystallized intelligence. A journalistic spot with a split-screen of four talking heads, is basically a spoken essay with the host as primary author, using the four talking heads as sources of quotes.
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  30. "If two cans of Coke are the same, are they connected?" Sure, they were both created by the same logic.
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  31. "What does self-esteem mean?" It seems to me that we used to use the words "pride" and "courage" to describe the phenomenon - you didn't let others walk all over you, and you weren't too timid to act.
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  32.  @l.w.paradis2108  Reviewing evidence is always eye-opening.
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  33. "You can type in a dream and get an interpretation of that dream. And you can say that's arbitrary, but it's not" You might be able to make the case that it's too complete though. Unless you're going full-on Jungian overmind, any dream interpretation would have to be tailored to the "training data" that an individual dreamer would have encountered. Someone would not likely dream of Star Trek if they had never seen Star Trek. The staggering reality is that in this new digital age, we might be able to reliably track what "training data" people have been exposed to, if we have records of what they have watched and heard from birth. If we could ever track common threads that show up independent of traceable media exposure, that might give us some idea of where true instinctive Jungian archetypes are.
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  34. The proper response to an ever-widening gap between the people "at the top" of a governing hierarchy and those farther down, is for those farther down to simply ignore any top-down edicts.
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  35. "There's not much evidence that more police make a difference" Er, stores are closing down because shoplifting isn't getting policed. M**der rates are up in poor neighborhoods because they're not being policed. In fact, this loss of policing is more lethal to residents of those neighborhoods, as gang activity claims more lives, than any policing ever was. If you think that black lives matter, you should be in favor of not only police, but aggressive policing such as stop and frisk.
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  36.  @PitchBlackYeti  That wasn't the voice of reason (logos), that was the voice of authority (ethos). The two are very distinct rhetorical strategies. Aristotle saw "ethos" as most persuasive, and he's right, from a cynical point of view. The Enlightenment, however, saw "logos" as most persuasive, and that gave us the modern world.
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  37. (For those who don't know many actors, the more lines a part has the better... juxtaposed against playing the literal Lord of Creation, speaking seven of the most studied phrases in the entire Western Canon. OK, now that I've crucified that joke, I'll be quiet.)
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  38. "The false self gives way to the true self, when Christ lives in us" "God hardened Pharaoh's heart -- which means He simply made Pharaoh more himself" It seems that in opposite cases, we become more ourselves -- how can this be?
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  39. "Almost universal acceptance of gay mirage" This is in no way true. The censorship that you decry (not just cancel culture, but outright algorithmic silencing) that is at the root of our society's dysfunction, was pioneered specifically to make it LOOK like this is universally accepted. This is without a doubt the first step on the "slippery slope" we find ourselves on. This led directly and inevitably to WPATH, and to people OD'ing in the s**t-covered streets of San Francisco. Obergefell will not survive the steps necessary to reverse our course.
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  40. "I don't know if he can make fun of himself" Not long after his brush with the hereafter, he made a joke about the fact that his comb-over looked much better from one side than from another.
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  41. History has not ended, imagine my shock. =)
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  42. "McMansions are soul-deadening because there's no social element involved, no community center nearby" McMansions are meant to be filled with children, who provide the social element, and the automobile you have lets you drive to whatever shopping or cultural center you prefer. Most (non-Catholic-parish) churches are "gathered" churches, where people from a large number of postal codes will congregate.
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  43. "This was a mob" Crowds of people have a "spirit" -- it's clear if you go to a closely-fought sports game, or an inspiring performance. If it's a riot, it's an evil spirit. I think that the mob outside of Jesus' trial, was literally possessed by an evil spirit.
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  44. The only person in the entire US Political Establishment who is steadfastly pro-Trump, is Trump himself. Yeah, that seems about right.
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  45. "All of the advances in the last 5000 years have been secular, fought by the religious" You're defining Jesus as secular, now? Wow. Most changes are fought by the establishment, and because many establishments have an associated religion, you can frame your evidence that way. It's sloppy thinking, though. Eisenhower was religious and Fascists and Communists were secular, and I'm glad Eisenhower won out in both cases.
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  46. Next time, Dr. Daniels should read the Book of Common Prayer service on marriage (concentrating on the parts giving the reasons for marriage) and Professor Peterson could give his commentaries on each segment of the argument.
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  47. "Who are you to tell me to valorize that person?" Why are you automatically taking anyone seriously? Jeez Michael, just ignore them. Make fun of them, if you like.
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  48. Why? Fry didn't actually participate.
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  49. Unbelievable. This is basically a Bible study, and it's like the second-most popular thing the Daily Wire+ has ever done?
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  50. "Trying to get all that modeled right [weather circulations, ocean circulations] modeled right, let alone making credible predictions into the future, we're not there. I mean, not even close to being there." This would seem to contradict your headline, "The Models are OK".
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