Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

That's certainly the case for the mad Marxists and the French postmodernists fit into that category. Or hedonic self-gratification or nihilistic collapse. And all of those are self-defeating. The proper story is one of sacrifice. And I know why that is too. And I think I explained it. There's two reasons that the fundamental story is one of sacrifice.

That's certainly the case for the mad Marxists and the French postmodernists fit into that category. Or hedonic self-gratification or nihilistic collapse. And all of those are self-defeating. The proper story is one of sacrifice. And I know why that is too. And I think I explained it. There's two reasons that the fundamental story is one of sacrifice.

That's certainly the case for the mad Marxists and the French postmodernists fit into that category. Or hedonic self-gratification or nihilistic collapse. And all of those are self-defeating. The proper story is one of sacrifice. And I know why that is too. And I think I explained it. There's two reasons that the fundamental story is one of sacrifice.

The first is that whenever you attend to one thing, you sacrifice everything else. So every act of perception is a sacrifice. That's why, for example, in the Christian, what would you say, conceptual universe, that the reality itself is

The first is that whenever you attend to one thing, you sacrifice everything else. So every act of perception is a sacrifice. That's why, for example, in the Christian, what would you say, conceptual universe, that the reality itself is

The first is that whenever you attend to one thing, you sacrifice everything else. So every act of perception is a sacrifice. That's why, for example, in the Christian, what would you say, conceptual universe, that the reality itself is

founded on sacrifice it's a very strange concept right that's that's john making the case that christ's sacrifice is identical to the word at the beginning of time but the the psychological significance of that proposition is that reality itself is predicated on sacrifice and because attention is sacrificial there's something about that that's deeply correct but but there's more than that

founded on sacrifice it's a very strange concept right that's that's john making the case that christ's sacrifice is identical to the word at the beginning of time but the the psychological significance of that proposition is that reality itself is predicated on sacrifice and because attention is sacrificial there's something about that that's deeply correct but but there's more than that

founded on sacrifice it's a very strange concept right that's that's john making the case that christ's sacrifice is identical to the word at the beginning of time but the the psychological significance of that proposition is that reality itself is predicated on sacrifice and because attention is sacrificial there's something about that that's deeply correct but but there's more than that

There's no difference between work and sacrifice because work is the sacrifice of the future to, sorry, the sacrifice of the present to the future and the sacrifice of the narrow self to the community. And so you could imagine that for reality to unfold properly, and that would be the reality that is good or very good as is portrayed, say, in Genesis 1, the appropriate sacrifice has to be made.

There's no difference between work and sacrifice because work is the sacrifice of the future to, sorry, the sacrifice of the present to the future and the sacrifice of the narrow self to the community. And so you could imagine that for reality to unfold properly, and that would be the reality that is good or very good as is portrayed, say, in Genesis 1, the appropriate sacrifice has to be made.

There's no difference between work and sacrifice because work is the sacrifice of the future to, sorry, the sacrifice of the present to the future and the sacrifice of the narrow self to the community. And so you could imagine that for reality to unfold properly, and that would be the reality that is good or very good as is portrayed, say, in Genesis 1, the appropriate sacrifice has to be made.

Sacrifices have to be made. And then you can envision the biblical library from beginning to end as a analysis of sacrifice. And I think that's all correct. And so that's pretty damn terrifying because I don't know what it means for that to be correct. I don't know what it means for there to be a convergence between neuroscience and our deepest theological presuppositions.

Sacrifices have to be made. And then you can envision the biblical library from beginning to end as a analysis of sacrifice. And I think that's all correct. And so that's pretty damn terrifying because I don't know what it means for that to be correct. I don't know what it means for there to be a convergence between neuroscience and our deepest theological presuppositions.

Sacrifices have to be made. And then you can envision the biblical library from beginning to end as a analysis of sacrifice. And I think that's all correct. And so that's pretty damn terrifying because I don't know what it means for that to be correct. I don't know what it means for there to be a convergence between neuroscience and our deepest theological presuppositions.

And I don't know what it would mean if people actually started to understand that the proper story is sacrificial. But look, I'll just close with this, Ben. Look, the community is founded on sacrifice. Okay, justify that. Well, if it's all about me in the most narrow way, then there's no community, right? There's only the immediate gratification of my whims.

And I don't know what it would mean if people actually started to understand that the proper story is sacrificial. But look, I'll just close with this, Ben. Look, the community is founded on sacrifice. Okay, justify that. Well, if it's all about me in the most narrow way, then there's no community, right? There's only the immediate gratification of my whims.

And I don't know what it would mean if people actually started to understand that the proper story is sacrificial. But look, I'll just close with this, Ben. Look, the community is founded on sacrifice. Okay, justify that. Well, if it's all about me in the most narrow way, then there's no community, right? There's only the immediate gratification of my whims.

So I devolve into a set of whims and I have to impose those whims on other people using power because they're not going to cooperate voluntarily if it's all about me. Now, to the degree that I establish a voluntarily chosen and reciprocal community around me, then I'm sacrificing my narrow aims to that higher end. Obviously, right?

So I devolve into a set of whims and I have to impose those whims on other people using power because they're not going to cooperate voluntarily if it's all about me. Now, to the degree that I establish a voluntarily chosen and reciprocal community around me, then I'm sacrificing my narrow aims to that higher end. Obviously, right?