Jordan Peterson
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There's no land except desert. There's no water except the sea.
They're all victims of the colonial enterprise, right? They bear no responsibility for their own misery.
They're all victims of the colonial enterprise, right? They bear no responsibility for their own misery.
They're all victims of the colonial enterprise, right? They bear no responsibility for their own misery.
And boy, the worst of your people can really delight in that. And you just have to let them loose and encourage them.
And boy, the worst of your people can really delight in that. And you just have to let them loose and encourage them.
And boy, the worst of your people can really delight in that. And you just have to let them loose and encourage them.
Well, Cain's descendants are genocidal, and then comes the flood. Right. That's the progression of the story, and it's causal. It goes from the failure of the individual, the willingness to turn to resentment and bitterness, and then murderous sadism, and then to be the father of the genocidal masses.
Well, Cain's descendants are genocidal, and then comes the flood. Right. That's the progression of the story, and it's causal. It goes from the failure of the individual, the willingness to turn to resentment and bitterness, and then murderous sadism, and then to be the father of the genocidal masses.
Well, Cain's descendants are genocidal, and then comes the flood. Right. That's the progression of the story, and it's causal. It goes from the failure of the individual, the willingness to turn to resentment and bitterness, and then murderous sadism, and then to be the father of the genocidal masses.
That's the problem with looking at evil.
That's the problem with looking at evil.
That's the problem with looking at evil.
Yeah, right. Well, that's the next question that arises, right? That's exactly what, what would you say, the sequence of thoughts that occurred to me after I spent 20 years studying Auschwitz and the death camps and the Soviet Union and Maoist China. It's like, well, there's hell. There's some way out of that. There's some place that's not that.
Yeah, right. Well, that's the next question that arises, right? That's exactly what, what would you say, the sequence of thoughts that occurred to me after I spent 20 years studying Auschwitz and the death camps and the Soviet Union and Maoist China. It's like, well, there's hell. There's some way out of that. There's some place that's not that.
Yeah, right. Well, that's the next question that arises, right? That's exactly what, what would you say, the sequence of thoughts that occurred to me after I spent 20 years studying Auschwitz and the death camps and the Soviet Union and Maoist China. It's like, well, there's hell. There's some way out of that. There's some place that's not that.
There's a place that's as far away from that as you could imagine. And there's a pathway to that. Yeah, well, the mythological landscape is the world of good and evil. No doubt about it. So let's turn to the end of your book. Two parts, the disconnect, we've covered that to some degree, from defeat into victory.
There's a place that's as far away from that as you could imagine. And there's a pathway to that. Yeah, well, the mythological landscape is the world of good and evil. No doubt about it. So let's turn to the end of your book. Two parts, the disconnect, we've covered that to some degree, from defeat into victory.
There's a place that's as far away from that as you could imagine. And there's a pathway to that. Yeah, well, the mythological landscape is the world of good and evil. No doubt about it. So let's turn to the end of your book. Two parts, the disconnect, we've covered that to some degree, from defeat into victory.
So, one of the things that struck me about your book, and I believe this to be the case, is that as Israel goes, so goes the West. The reason that we're all obsessed with that part of the world, when there's many wars we could be talking about, is because... What is it? That's where the tire hits the road.