Andrew Doyle

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 506. Europe Imploding | Andrew Doyle & Graham Linehan · 12 Dec 2024 podcast

words in many ways have lost their meaning. We've talked about exactly that. We can't assume that we're referring to the same thing no matter what we talk about. And so you see in China, of course, they're much farther along the totalitarian road than we are. Maybe we won't go down that road, but 600 million CCTV cameras Right. Which is about one for every two people.

And they can do perfect face recognition. But if you cover your face, they can recognize you with unerring accuracy merely by gate. Every bloody thing you do is tracked.

And that's certainly a road we could walk down. I mean, you go into an airport now and before you board a plane, your picture is taken. Now you can opt out. For now, and the gates are increasingly automated, which is all well and good and convenient when the goddamn thing's open, but pretty rough on you if they don't, because then what? We're going to talk, what are you going to do?

Talk to the gate? Yeah. Seems unlikely. And so, I mean, it's easy even to point to the political... The hypothetical political causes of this, it's the progressive left. It's like, yeah, partly. But it's certainly partly the fact that we don't know what the hell we're doing in this interconnected world.

Well, it also blew Christendom apart, right? Because you had the massive... Right. what, altercations between the Protestants and the Catholics as a direct consequence of the printing press.

Well, it also meant eventually that the entire world was made literate.

Well, it depends on how we conduct ourselves. Like if you guys move to Phoenix and you start your entertainment consortium and you start making comedy that can actually be viewed by people and that's genuinely funny and free. then you're going to tilt the world a little farther away from the all-seeing eye of Sauron and the Tower of Babel and towards something approximating freedom.

You can use the Tower of Babel, although the EEC has already managed that, right?

Well, sure, because the attack doesn't come from the position you expect, not if it's going to be effective.

Or the one who wants to appear well-intentioned in the moment with no further thought or effort. They're all religious hypocrites fundamentally.

Well, I have less sympathy for those people, I would say too, because the problem I have with them, and I think Keir Starmer, certainly Justin Trudeau fits into this category, is they want the moral approbation for being good people without doing the work. It's actually really hard to be a good person.

You have to work at it all the time and against your, what would you say, alternative inclinations. So I want to tell you another story that's relevant to your venture here in the United States, too. So... There's a story in the biblical texts in the story of Abraham that has to do with the probability that a city will be destroyed for ethical impropriety.

And cities are destroyed for ethical impropriety all the time, right? They go to hell in a handbasket and then all hell breaks loose and that's the end of that. That happens all the time. Sodom. Well, this is the story. Angels of God visit Abraham or God, it's ambivalent in the story, and they tell Abraham that Sodom and Gomorrah are going to be destroyed in totality.

And Abraham says, that's not fair. What if there's good people there? And God or the angels say, I don't think there are. And Abraham says, well, what if I can go to the city and find 50? And God says, you find 50, no problem. And Abraham, who's a stubborn bastard says, well, what if there's 40? And God says, You know, you're pushing your luck. And I think Abraham gets him down to 10.

And it's a fascinating story because this is what I think it means. And this is also why I think your venture is so crucially important. And I also think this is relevant on the day after Jay Bhattacharya was elected to head the NHS after being an outsider and, what would you say, cancelled.

The moral of that story is if there's 10 people in a city that are still willing to tell the truth, the city won't be destroyed. And I believe that's true because I think the truth is so powerful that if a culture hasn't become so totalitarian that everyone is silenced, there's still hope. And I do think there's still hope in the West.

And the fact that you guys can come here to Phoenix, right, home of the... home of rebirth, so to speak.

And you can do your thing. You can do what comedians have always done, which is to tell the truth. And God only knows what the consequence of that will be. More than, possibly more than you think.

It's possibly, there's a reason stand-up comedy is... so entertaining and so popular. It's possible because it's possible that it's because it's really necessary. It's really necessary for you to be allowed to be funny because one of the things that's so cool about comedy is that people don't laugh on purpose. Right? You can't You can pretty much tell when someone laughs falsely.

And so it's actually a form of spontaneous honesty. It's pre-conscious. That's very interesting. Yeah, it's very interesting.

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