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Solzhenitsyn
“Like I read in Solzhenitsyn, for example, that the Central Soviet authorities often had to make 200 pricing decisions a day.”
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Jordan Peterson
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts
“Naively oriented towards empirical truth to note when they’re being politically incorrect, they wrote a great book called A Billion Wicked Thoughts, which I really like.”
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01 / belief
I would say religious thought is the record of those ideas that have in fact scaled.
“I would say religious thought is the record of those ideas that have in fact scaled.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / belief
I think as a general rule of thumb, that’s true. And I also think that the long form interviews are particularly good at that because it’s not that easy to maintain a manipulative stance, especially if you’re empty for two and a half hours.
“I think as a general rule of thumb, that’s true. And I also think that the long form interviews are particularly good at that because it’s not that easy to maintain a manipulative stance, especially if you’re empty for two and a half hours.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / belief
See, I actually knew that wasn’t right. Because I could remember, especially I think when I was very young, that I did things that he was pleased about.
“See, I actually knew that wasn’t right. Because I could remember, especially I think when I was very young, that I did things that he was pleased about.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / belief
See, this is such an important thing to understand because it helps you start to understand the distinction between a unifying force that’s based on power and compulsion, and one that is much more in keeping, I would say with the ethos that governs western societies, free western societies, there’s really a qualitative difference, and it’s not some morally relativistic illusion.
“See, this is such an important thing to understand because it helps you start to understand the distinction between a unifying force that’s based on power and compulsion, and one that is much more in keeping, I would say with the ethos that governs western societies, free western societies, there’s really a qualitative difference, and it’s not some morally relativistic illusion.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
05 / belief
I think Nietzsche had that because he was very ill. And so I suspect he had… And he was regarded by the inhabitants of the village that he lived in, near the end of his life, as something approximating a saint.
“I think Nietzsche had that because he was very ill. And so I suspect he had… And he was regarded by the inhabitants of the village that he lived in, near the end of his life, as something approximating a saint.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / belief
I think what we’re doing, this is happening on Twitter continually, is we’re giving the 5% of psychopaths a radically disproportionate voice.
“I think what we’re doing, this is happening on Twitter continually, is we’re giving the 5% of psychopaths a radically disproportionate voice.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
07 / belief
The reason I think that is because I know the literature on post-traumatic stress disorder, and most people who encounter, let’s say, a challenge that’s so brutal that it fragments them, it isn’t mere suffering that does that to people.
“The reason I think that is because I know the literature on post-traumatic stress disorder, and most people who encounter, let’s say, a challenge that’s so brutal that it fragments them, it isn’t mere suffering that does that to people.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
08 / belief
I think that nature has oppressed men and women terribly, and that men and women have struggled together valiantly to scrape out some possibility of security and happiness from that.
“I think that nature has oppressed men and women terribly, and that men and women have struggled together valiantly to scrape out some possibility of security and happiness from that.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Conversations with Tyler
09 / belief
I think 40 percent of the people who live in Toronto were foreign born, and the city is doing extraordinarily well.
“I think 40 percent of the people who live in Toronto were foreign born, and the city is doing extraordinarily well.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Conversations with Tyler
10 / belief
I think that’s a huge mistake for someone who’s an evolutionary biologist because human religious thinking is a human universal.
“I think that’s a huge mistake for someone who’s an evolutionary biologist because human religious thinking is a human universal.”
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- Jordan Peterson
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- Conversations with Tyler