Dr. James Lindsay

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 544. When the Right Goes Too Far | Dr. James Lindsay · 5 May 2025 podcast

So this shit posting problem, so that's part of the enabling of the psychopaths by the free social media platforms, right? By the costless social media platforms. Do you have any sense? So we're working out ways to identify people.

Another marker.

It's like a biblical plague of locusts.

So... The proliferation of this kind of pathology seems to be linked to... Another characteristic is the attempt to get people to distance themselves from you.

Yeah, well, that's disgust terminology again, right? You're the carrier of something pathological. That's right. Yeah. So the social media platforms, so Musk's perspective, and Rogan's to some degree too, mine for that matter, is that the best antiseptic is sunlight. But there might be a flaw in that reasoning, and maybe you can help me think it through.

When I'm sitting across from you, I bear the weight of my words, right? It's going to have an impact on the net, but it's also going to impact the relationship I have with you. And so I'm constrained or regulated. I'm regulated in my utterances by consequences. And so there's never been a time, really, where free speech existed without reputational weight.

Now, maybe pamphleteering and that sort of thing, but that's trivial compared to what we have now. I mean, how many people can you get your pamphlet to? And what sort of effect is that going to have? That was back in the time of writing, but now... your pathology can multiply virtually without end. And then I'm thinking, well, maybe it's necessary.

I thought for Twitter, for example, that there should be two sections. There should be a section where people's identification is validated and a section for the anonymous trolls. And that should be... demarcated. So you can go visit hell land of trolls if you want, but you know that they're not real people. Now, the problem with that, as far as I can tell, is the digital ID problem.

The net allows people to escape the reputational consequences of their psychopathology, their destructive, sadistic, corrosive, power-mad, hedonistic psychopathology. It's a terrible thing. And people have no idea how dangerous it is. But if you verify IDs electronically, then we walk down the... root to Chinese totalitarianism, something like that, as far as I can.

Well, the guy who just got, the man who just got elected prime minister in Canada, he says two quite stunning things in his book, which no Canadians read because... we'll leave that lie. 75% of the world's fossil fuels have to stay in the ground. Okay, that's proposition number one. And he's made that a centerpiece of his thinking for 20 years.

There's no priority guiding every financial decision by every individual and every corporation that should be prioritized higher than decarbonization. That means every single thing, and then he says, of course, there'll be losers in consequence of that, but it's a price we're willing to pay, we have to pay, the sacrifice of others.

So this is a man who thinks that net zero is the proper game and that if you were a moral actor, decarbonization would be your God, right? Regulate every single one of your decisions. Well, out of that comes the kind of pathocracy that you described. It's like, you've seen this already. There's edges appearing. There's credit cards.

They were issued in Australia that track your carbon footprint, right? And at the moment, you're still allowed to spend on whatever you want, regardless of your, at the moment, that's exactly right. And once you're fully trackable, Well, then we know what'll happen. You know exactly what'll happen. You'll be nudged in whatever direction benefits the power-mad Luciferians.

That's exactly what'll happen.

That's for sure. Because the AI systems trained on your purchasing behavior, for example, will be able to predict your likely behavior with a stellar degree of accuracy. That's right. Right. I mean, the advertisements that you're fed already do that to some degree. That's right. So the only solution I can

think of to this is to, because the digital ID solution seems to be troublesome, to say the least, means no privacy whatsoever, forever, fundamentally. I guess it's exposing this and hoping that people make wise decisions. And I guess that's what you're trying to do with the woke right idea.

You think the administrators can stay ahead of the bots?

I don't know. No, that's another problem, right, is that the system transforms itself so rapidly that it's very difficult to regulate it.

I don't know. Maybe it should be a branch of the military.

Well, we've already talked to some of the groups that I'm working with Women 18 to 34 have political opinions that are way off center compared to everyone else. Plus they're dreadfully miserable.

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