Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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And whatever stability we manage to attain is merely a consequence of the balance of our fundamentally competing interests.
And that ethos is core to the
unholy alliance between the postmodernists and the Marxists.
There's no genuine reality.
There's no genuine morality.
There are a variety.
There's no genuine reality.
There's nothing but a set of competing claims to power.
And then there's the oppressed and the victimized and then there's the victimizer and that's a power dynamic and you can understand marriage that way and you can understand the family that way and you can understand history that way and it's nothing but power.
And
As I said, fair enough.
You know, human beings are pretty damn brutal.
And you look at a regime like the National Socialist Regime or Maoist China or Stalinist Soviet Union, you think, or the degeneration of great institutions in the West, and you think, power's on the march, and maybe there's nothing else.
There are a group of people who use nothing but strategies of power.
Psychopaths.
They're about 3% of the population, cross-culturally.
And that fact in itself is pretty damn interesting, because if there was nothing but power, why wouldn't the people who use nothing but power be the majority and be dominant?
And they're not.
Psychopathy turns out to be a very counterproductive strategy.
Many psychopaths land up in prison.