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00:01:58.720 Hello, and welcome to the Full Comment Podcast.

00:02:06.960 I'm Brian Lilly, your host.

00:02:08.340 As we take a pause, slow down over the holidays, we here at Full Comment are taking a bit of a break as well.

00:02:14.480 But that means we're bringing you some of our best episodes of the year.

00:02:18.660 At the beginning of 2024, I got a chance to speak with one of Canada's biggest, if most unlikely, celebrities.

00:02:24.980 Dr. Jordan Peterson is a man who is both loved and hated with great fanfare.

00:02:30.900 Ever since he took a stand against forced pronouns in 2016, he's attracted plenty of new fans.

00:02:36.560 He's also attracted those on the so-called progressive front who hate him.

00:02:40.880 And that includes many in downtown Toronto.

00:02:43.260 Jordan Peterson recently left downtown Toronto after decades of living in that city's annexed neighborhood,

00:02:49.000 where he also taught at the nearby University of Toronto.

00:02:52.320 He's decamped to Arizona, where he recently called me with the promise that he'll join me again on the podcast in the near future to talk about why he left and his new book,

00:03:02.180 We Who Wrestle With God.

00:03:03.300 But for now, please enjoy one of our most listened to and most watched episodes of 2024.

00:03:10.220 Depending on your viewpoint, Jordan Peterson is either a hero or a man of ill repute who should have no standing in the world of clinical psychology.

00:03:18.560 What no one can deny is that the man has become a bit of a rock star.

00:03:23.040 Maybe not in the world of psychology, but have you heard of any other celebrity psychologists?

00:03:28.340 Not really a thing, but that's where he is now.

00:03:31.800 And this week, we've got a chance to speak with him.

00:03:35.060 Now, this is coming together rather quickly, rather last minute.

00:03:39.220 And you might notice that it sounds a little bit different between where I am now and my discussion with Dr. Peterson,

00:03:45.380 who I interviewed just before getting on a flight to come to Tel Aviv in Israel for another matter.

00:03:50.920 We'll have more on that in future editions of the Full Comment podcast.

00:03:55.040 Hi, my name is Brian Lilly, your host.

00:03:56.840 And while in Israel right now, I'm reviewing my discussion, my interview with Dr. Peterson,

00:04:02.560 and we wanted to bring it to you this week on the Full Comment podcast.

00:04:07.180 He is a bit of the man of the hour, as it were.

00:04:10.940 He had his attempt to overturn a previous court ruling shut down by the Ontario Court of Appeal,

00:04:16.740 which refused to hear his case.

00:04:18.180 Peterson has been arguing that the Ontario College of Psychologists overstepped their bounds

00:04:23.520 when ordering him to undergo what he describes as re-education in social media.

00:04:29.980 Now, you can dispute whether that is the actual term that should be applied,

00:04:34.740 but there's no doubt that the college has said you will undertake social media training

00:04:38.500 that we deem appropriate or lose your license.

00:04:41.880 That's a heavy toll.

00:04:43.060 It's also something that he warns the rest of us can apply to every single profession out there,

00:04:49.540 every single regulated trade, any job where you have a college that decides if you're fit to pursue your life's work.

00:04:57.460 Well, now they can determine whether your social media interactions,

00:05:01.280 your public statements on issues of life, of politics, is worthy of you continuing in that job,

00:05:07.660 be it a teacher, hairdresser, a barber, a plumber, a doctor.

00:05:12.140 All of these professions have regulatory bodies,

00:05:14.880 and thanks to this court ruling from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice

00:05:20.040 and the decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal not to hear it,

00:05:23.860 in Canada's largest province anyway,

00:05:26.040 these bodies now have immense power over you.

00:05:29.180 That's a big part of what Dr. Peterson's warning is about.

00:05:32.740 It's a big part of what we discussed,

00:05:34.040 but we also discussed his options and how he ended up in this unlikely position.

00:05:40.000 We've discussed this many times over the years.

00:05:43.180 Jordan Peterson's a man I've interviewed many times, haven't met in person,

00:05:46.740 but we have been talking frequently since this became a court issue,

00:05:50.940 and that is where we start the conversation.

00:05:54.320 Dr. Peterson, thanks for the time as always.

00:05:57.080 Hey, thanks for the invitation.

00:05:59.180 Let's back this up for people who don't know why you're in trouble,

00:06:03.740 other than the fact that you're a troublemaker.

00:06:06.760 I mean, it seems to follow you everywhere,

00:06:08.740 but why are you in trouble with the Ontario College of Psychologists?

00:06:14.520 What prompted this?

00:06:16.120 Let's give people a base understanding.

00:06:19.320 They feel that I pose a danger to the public

00:06:21.320 and that I'm a disgrace to the profession.

00:06:24.500 Those are essentially the accusations,

00:06:27.180 and they've already decided that I'm to be re-educated for an indefinite period of time

00:06:34.580 by anyone they choose at my expense,

00:06:38.000 with the outcome being whatever they deem appropriate.

00:06:41.820 Despite the fact that the people that will educate me,

00:06:45.400 so-called social media experts,

00:06:46.880 have no standing as scientists or researchers,

00:06:50.840 let alone clinicians,

00:06:52.260 that there's no such thing as the field of social media expert.

00:06:55.880 There's no criteria by which they could judge my success,

00:06:59.140 et cetera, et cetera.

00:07:00.120 And so why, you ask?

00:07:01.760 No.

00:07:02.780 Do you want the surface reason,

00:07:06.060 the given reason,

00:07:06.860 or do you want the actual reason?

00:07:08.440 I want the actual reason.

00:07:10.440 Okay, well, I'll give you both.

00:07:11.740 The surface reason is that I said things that were...

00:07:14.840 It's hard for me to explain, actually.

00:07:19.660 I can tell you what I did and what I got in trouble for.

00:07:23.000 Well, it is.

00:07:23.920 Okay, well, let me throw this out,

00:07:25.580 because after I wrote a column defending you

00:07:28.440 and saying that this is a problem for anybody

00:07:30.780 in any regulated profession or trade,

00:07:33.480 I had people writing me and saying,

00:07:34.980 well, he's a psychologist,

00:07:37.180 and he advised people to kill themselves. 0.98

00:07:40.220 Oh, yeah. 0.95

00:07:40.560 Well, that's one of them, yeah.

00:07:41.840 So I'll tell you that story.

00:07:43.280 So I've noted for years the proclivity

00:07:47.580 of environmentalist do-gooders

00:07:50.920 to claim that the planet has too many people on it,

00:07:54.560 and one of the most egregious offenders on that front

00:07:57.160 was moralizing madly on Twitter,

00:07:59.580 and I suggested to him that if he felt

00:08:01.740 that the population needed to be reduced,

00:08:04.640 that he might consider contributing to that himself.

00:08:08.940 And so that apparently...

00:08:10.280 That's a joke.

00:08:11.160 There's no such thing as a joke now.

00:08:15.160 That was counseling to suicide.

00:08:16.620 But that is something that I've said to people for years.

00:08:19.800 You know, I've heard from environmentalists

00:08:21.580 that have a ton of kids and say,

00:08:23.360 we have too many people.

00:08:24.420 Well, you know, you're still here,

00:08:26.580 and you had a bunch of kids,

00:08:27.960 so if you think that, you know,

00:08:30.160 the humans on the planet

00:08:32.420 are a locust that are just eating everything, 0.98

00:08:35.400 well, why this?

00:08:36.940 Well, and we could delve into that a little bit.

00:08:42.240 Like, I've felt for 30 years

00:08:44.280 that statements like that are generated

00:08:47.500 by a literally genocidal, anti-human spirit,

00:08:52.040 so to speak, 1.00

00:08:52.900 that takes possession of the tongues of fools 1.00

00:08:55.880 and has them say such things 1.00

00:08:57.960 without really noticing what they're doing.

00:09:00.120 And I actually feel that it's my professional responsibility

00:09:02.680 to call out such Freudian slips,

00:09:05.960 as you might say,

00:09:07.340 because they actually speak to a very deep

00:09:09.800 fount of extremely pathological motivation.

00:09:13.960 And so on the one hand, it's a joke,

00:09:15.580 but on the other hand,

00:09:16.920 you know, it's a pretty grim joke.

00:09:19.160 And obviously,

00:09:20.440 you have to be some sort of ideologically addled 1.00

00:09:22.760 and blind fool motivated as well 1.00

00:09:25.060 to think that that was somehow 1.00

00:09:27.240 a psychologist counseling someone,

00:09:29.400 let alone someone in distress to suicide.

00:09:32.720 So somebody complained about you making that joke.

00:09:37.020 Were they a patient of yours?

00:09:39.940 Were they someone that was coming to you

00:09:41.420 as a psychologist?

00:09:43.060 No, no, no.

00:09:43.940 None of the people...

00:09:45.100 No, so first of all,

00:09:46.060 there were never any complaints levied against me

00:09:47.940 when I was a practicing psychologist

00:09:51.060 prior to my rise to public notoriety, let's say.

00:09:54.800 And I practiced for some 20 years

00:09:56.920 and also no complaints levied against me

00:09:59.320 of any sort as a professor, by the way.

00:10:01.660 And that was because I didn't do anything

00:10:03.260 that would generate such complaints

00:10:05.540 back when you had to do something

00:10:06.900 to generate complaints, let's say.

00:10:08.760 The people who complained

00:10:10.160 were about 15 people,

00:10:13.240 17 people scattered all over the world.

00:10:15.860 They complained online.

00:10:17.620 The college decided to pursue 13 of those complaints,

00:10:20.680 even though they are not required to.

00:10:22.420 In their judgment, they determined

00:10:24.380 that that was reasonable.

00:10:25.880 Six of the people claimed in writing

00:10:28.200 to be clients of mine,

00:10:29.400 which was a complete bloody lie.

00:10:30.940 Not only were they not clients of mine,

00:10:33.100 they didn't know anyone

00:10:34.180 who was ever a client of mine.

00:10:35.680 And none of the people

00:10:37.320 that I actually interacted with on Twitter

00:10:39.700 to the degree that I did complained.

00:10:41.640 And none of the people who complained knew them.

00:10:44.260 So these were third-party strangers.

00:10:47.660 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:48.500 So I can tell you what the other complaints were.

00:10:51.100 I criticized Trudeau.

00:10:52.940 I criticized his chief of staff. 0.75

00:10:55.300 I made a smart-ass remark

00:10:56.620 about some Ottawa city councillor

00:10:58.700 who was lying about the trucker convoy.

00:11:01.900 The complainant submitted an entire transcript

00:11:05.060 of an interview I did with Joe Rogan

00:11:07.980 where I was expressing my doubts

00:11:10.820 about the validity of the climate apocalypse

00:11:13.020 that's being foisted on us

00:11:14.480 by the moral-mongering globalist utopians.

00:11:19.160 And, oh, yes, I pointed out to the world at large

00:11:25.100 that very obese people were not a beauty model

00:11:29.320 for Swimsuit or for Sports Illustrated.

00:11:32.560 And I went after Elliot or Ellen Page

00:11:35.180 or whatever the hell she thinks she is. 0.86

00:11:37.360 So is Sports Illustrated,

00:11:38.860 that would be the publication

00:11:39.920 that just announced they're shutting down?

00:11:42.520 Yeah, that'd be the one, all right?

00:11:43.860 Isn't that something?

00:11:44.700 And who could have possibly predicted that?

00:11:47.560 Yeah.

00:11:48.220 Yeah.

00:11:48.900 I remember being a teenage boy

00:11:51.220 and being very interested in the swimsuit issue.

00:11:54.860 Let's talk about the fact that

00:11:56.560 these people came from around the world.

00:11:59.920 I mean, this is the Ontario College.

00:12:01.780 So, you know, I've had people say to me,

00:12:05.040 well, you know, this is the Ontario College

00:12:08.320 and they're there to protect the public.

00:12:10.700 Yeah, right.

00:12:11.400 They've got to protect the public

00:12:12.900 from someone who's practicing psychology in Ontario.

00:12:17.560 But these were people who just didn't like

00:12:20.380 what you said on social media.

00:12:22.180 I mean, how far flung were they?

00:12:24.820 Oh, all over.

00:12:26.020 London, most of them were Americans.

00:12:29.600 They were all over the place.

00:12:30.840 Doesn't matter.

00:12:31.440 You can submit,

00:12:32.080 anyone can submit a complaint

00:12:33.340 for any reason whatsoever from anywhere.

00:12:35.660 They don't have to be a client

00:12:36.720 or have had anything to do with me

00:12:38.940 or anything to do with anyone

00:12:40.400 I've ever had anything to do with.

00:12:42.480 Part of the problem is that

00:12:45.180 the complaint process itself

00:12:47.020 is actually technologically outdated

00:12:49.500 because back when you had to write a letter,

00:12:52.540 you know, on paper

00:12:53.580 and you had to do some work

00:12:55.240 to submit a complaint,

00:12:56.840 the probability that some, 0.99

00:12:58.200 you know, far flung dimwit 0.99

00:12:59.980 from another country 1.00

00:13:00.880 was going to take the time

00:13:02.040 to do the investigation necessary

00:13:03.760 to go after someone like me was zero.

00:13:06.340 But now you can submit a complaint. 0.99

00:13:08.300 Any, you know, vengeful halfwit 0.96

00:13:10.900 can submit a complaint in 15 seconds. 0.99

00:13:14.540 And all the bloody political activists know this.

00:13:18.380 They've weaponized the regulatory colleges

00:13:20.860 all over the world.

00:13:22.700 So physicians in particular

00:13:24.140 are terrified to say anything.

00:13:26.320 How then is this protecting the public in Ontario

00:13:30.520 when what it actually looks like is lawfare?

00:13:34.600 I mean, these rules on social media

00:13:36.980 did not exist when you became

00:13:38.320 a clinical psychologist, correct?

00:13:41.820 Well, the rules governing conduct existed,

00:13:45.400 but I didn't, I haven't done anything

00:13:46.880 that violates my responsibility

00:13:49.480 as a psychologist.

00:13:51.020 In fact, quite the contrary.

00:13:52.160 I've said things that I believe are true.

00:13:53.600 This is about social media posts.

00:13:56.060 This is about an interview with Joe Williams.

00:13:57.400 Oh yes, well, that's true.

00:13:58.480 Yeah, no, no, no.

00:13:59.280 Those are all those.

00:14:00.500 Yeah, yeah.

00:14:01.260 Well, they're still back in 1980.

00:14:03.280 This did not exist back then.

00:14:05.700 Now they've added these things in

00:14:07.360 and you've got people complaining

00:14:08.700 from around the world.

00:14:09.680 How is this not just lawfare?

00:14:12.260 Well, it is lawfare.

00:14:13.600 It's taken me, it's very stressful.

00:14:15.740 I mean, it's the equivalent of 13 lawsuits.

00:14:18.420 And they say, well, it's not punitive

00:14:20.060 and it's not a lawsuit, but well,

00:14:22.280 first of all, the punishment

00:14:23.200 is that they're going to take my license

00:14:24.660 because that's clearly the plan.

00:14:26.660 And in terms of it not being a lawsuit,

00:14:28.860 they recommend themselves

00:14:30.940 that once an action like this is instituted

00:14:33.080 that you get a lawyer.

00:14:34.420 So, you know, you can flip the words

00:14:36.300 any way you want, but it's a lawsuit

00:14:39.620 and it threatens my livelihood.

00:14:41.800 It's already cost me a million dollars.

00:14:43.780 Like who the hell has the money

00:14:45.520 to fight that sort of thing?

00:14:47.480 And it's been an unsuccessful fight.

00:14:49.160 And it's absolutely crystal clear

00:14:52.240 that the end game is to take my license

00:14:54.040 because, you know, I played this out in my head.

00:14:56.480 Okay, so they're going to re-educate me,

00:14:58.920 whatever the hell that means.

00:15:00.160 I can't even imagine how that's going to work

00:15:02.180 or even who they would get to do it,

00:15:04.140 although they have some people

00:15:05.200 that they've hypothetically recommended.

00:15:07.600 Like, how are they going to retool me

00:15:11.180 to their satisfaction?

00:15:13.100 You know, I mean, I can't see

00:15:15.000 any possible way that could happen.

00:15:16.960 I don't even know what I did that was wrong.

00:15:20.100 You know, I mean, maybe they'll tell me,

00:15:21.500 I don't know, what are they going to tell me?

00:15:24.320 So don't say anything that isn't cliched

00:15:27.400 ever in public, what, or something like that.

00:15:30.500 You and I have been talking about this

00:15:33.360 for just over a year now

00:15:35.040 because I guess it was November 2022

00:15:37.600 this came forward.

00:15:39.940 You went public at the end of December

00:15:41.800 or early January 2023.

00:15:45.260 And then you sought judicial review.

00:15:47.580 And you asked the court to say,

00:15:49.660 like, look, these guys are overstepping their bounds.

00:15:52.380 Oh, yeah.

00:15:52.840 Yeah.

00:15:53.180 So that court case came back.

00:15:56.740 That's the Ontario so-called

00:15:58.040 Superior Court of Justice.

00:16:00.060 And a ruling by Justice Paul Chavez

00:16:02.240 said that, well, yeah, maybe, kinda,

00:16:06.140 yeah, your rights were violated,

00:16:07.780 but, you know, under Section 1

00:16:09.200 of the Constitution.

00:16:10.320 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:10.800 And we look at Doré,

00:16:12.580 which, by the way,

00:16:14.000 Doré is a case for people that don't know.

00:16:16.540 It's cited often in administrative cases,

00:16:20.020 but it's about a lawyer complaining about a judge

00:16:23.680 and then the entire judicial system

00:16:25.580 coming down on this guy

00:16:27.400 because he had a biased judge against him.

00:16:31.220 And that's what they're using to go after you.

00:16:34.500 And Justice Chavez, who, by the way,

00:16:37.820 as we've discussed before,

00:16:39.780 you know, former lawyer for the Toronto Star,

00:16:42.560 someone who helped Morgenthaler

00:16:44.520 fight to overturn the abortion laws in this country,

00:16:47.920 very activist lawyer, very activist judge.

00:16:51.140 He looked at the case and said,

00:16:52.440 no, like, sure, your rights were violated,

00:16:54.920 but it's justified under Section 1.

00:16:57.460 That, like, you know,

00:16:58.780 people don't get how much power judges have. 0.99

00:17:02.480 They said your rights were violated

00:17:04.280 and then said, but it's okay

00:17:06.200 because we agree with it.

00:17:09.300 Yeah, well, if you're a Canadian 0.96

00:17:11.260 and you think the Charter of Rights 1.00

00:17:13.360 protects your rights, you're a fool. 1.00

00:17:16.800 That thing isn't worth the paper it's written on. 1.00

00:17:19.120 You don't have property rights

00:17:20.440 to any real significant degree.

00:17:23.440 You certainly don't have the right to free speech,

00:17:25.340 especially if you're a professional,

00:17:26.940 because as you already pointed out,

00:17:29.460 the courts, and Bruce Party wrote a good article

00:17:31.860 about this in the National Post here recently,

00:17:33.740 the courts have already decided

00:17:35.580 that pretty much any old bureaucrat whatsoever

00:17:38.600 or bureaucratic organization

00:17:40.140 who can formulate something approximating

00:17:43.280 a justifiable rationale

00:17:44.640 for violating the rights of the professionals

00:17:48.940 they're hypothetically regulating

00:17:50.480 can do so with impunity, obviously.

00:17:53.240 I mean, is it so...

00:17:54.800 Look, I mean, here,

00:17:55.840 we've got to make this clear to people.

00:17:57.420 So we already dealt with the suicide thing,

00:17:59.140 which is, you know, just so preposterous.

00:18:00.720 It's beyond comprehension.

00:18:02.740 I criticized Trudeau

00:18:04.900 and his chief of staff.

00:18:08.060 Hold on, let's be accurate.

00:18:10.160 Let's be accurate.

00:18:10.940 His principal secretary at the time, Jerry Butts.

00:18:14.380 I don't want people saying

00:18:15.940 that we're not telling the truth here, Jordan.

00:18:19.000 We've got to be clear.

00:18:19.820 Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:21.420 Well, yeah, yeah.

00:18:22.680 Well, right.

00:18:23.720 Well, so do I have a right

00:18:25.400 to criticize political leaders or not?

00:18:27.360 Well, obviously, the answer to that is,

00:18:29.920 well, I have the right,

00:18:30.820 but I don't have the right to do that

00:18:32.100 and, like, have a profession.

00:18:35.760 And, of course, the judge also ruled

00:18:37.980 that the action wasn't disciplinary.

00:18:43.660 It was by a disciplinary committee.

00:18:47.500 Yeah, well, the thing is,

00:18:48.560 had they turned it disciplinary,

00:18:50.080 I would have had the right to face them.

00:18:51.800 You know, I'm reminded of

00:18:55.720 the great movie Princess Bride.

00:18:58.720 You keep using that word.

00:19:00.120 I don't think it means what you think it means.

00:19:02.020 Yeah, well, right.

00:19:03.660 It's not disciplinary.

00:19:05.180 It's just disciplinary.

00:19:07.260 Yeah.

00:19:07.940 So, look, this fight,

00:19:10.580 in my view,

00:19:11.820 is something that

00:19:13.140 every Canadian should be concerned about.

00:19:16.120 And I think you'll be happy to hear

00:19:19.300 that I've heard from Canadians

00:19:21.280 who don't agree with you,

00:19:23.440 who don't like you,

00:19:25.360 but who say,

00:19:26.840 wow, I'm really concerned about this.

00:19:30.780 And in my view,

00:19:32.100 if you're in any sort of

00:19:33.680 regulated profession or trade,

00:19:35.740 and I mean it,

00:19:37.060 I mean it from psychologists,

00:19:39.160 doctors, teachers, lawyers,

00:19:40.700 but also get into the skilled trades,

00:19:44.060 plumbers, hairdressers,

00:19:46.080 electricians,

00:19:47.140 anywhere where you've got

00:19:48.520 an organizing body

00:19:50.080 that decides if you have the right

00:19:52.640 to work in that field,

00:19:55.140 they can say,

00:19:57.320 you know what,

00:19:58.120 if you say certain things politically,

00:20:00.360 we're going to say

00:20:02.120 you can't work in this field.

00:20:04.240 No, they will say that.

00:20:05.200 They've been doing that

00:20:05.860 with nurses already.

00:20:07.160 Amy Hamm in British Columbia

00:20:08.320 is a very good example of that.

00:20:09.580 It isn't that they can do that.

00:20:11.340 They 100% certainly will do that.

00:20:15.060 Tell me about this Amy Hamm story.

00:20:16.840 This is not one that I know.

00:20:18.360 I know about a case in Saskatchewan

00:20:20.540 with a nurse that, 0.97

00:20:21.460 you know,

00:20:22.520 criticized the treatment

00:20:23.440 her father received

00:20:24.500 and she ended up in trouble,

00:20:26.400 but what's this story?

00:20:28.160 Yeah, Amy Hamm in BC

00:20:28.360 got in terrible trouble

00:20:29.780 for insisting that there was

00:20:30.960 a biological difference

00:20:31.940 between men and women,

00:20:33.140 which is, by the way,

00:20:34.300 the most fundamental fact

00:20:36.340 that humans have access to.

00:20:38.440 And now, well, in Canada,

00:20:40.940 it's essentially illegal

00:20:41.940 for all intents and purposes

00:20:43.640 to insist on that.

00:20:45.140 So now, you just think about that.

00:20:47.020 So now, your innate ability

00:20:50.240 to differentiate

00:20:52.240 between male and female,

00:20:53.800 which is about the most important thing

00:20:55.460 you can possibly do,

00:20:57.100 has now become a criminal act

00:20:58.880 if you dare to admit

00:21:00.140 that the capacity even exists.

00:21:02.100 And you might think I'm exaggerating,

00:21:03.620 but I'm not.

00:21:04.900 No, no, I don't.

00:21:06.640 There's a young man

00:21:07.900 from the Ottawa Valley

00:21:08.760 named Josh Alexander.

00:21:10.400 Yeah, I interviewed him.

00:21:12.180 He was suspended

00:21:12.920 from a Catholic school

00:21:14.120 for saying there are only two genders.

00:21:16.620 Last time I checked,

00:21:18.880 the Catholic Church teaches

00:21:20.100 that there are only two genders.

00:21:22.200 You know, that has not changed.

00:21:24.100 And yet a Catholic school

00:21:25.440 said you can't come back

00:21:27.240 until you apologize.

00:21:28.840 So they've essentially suspended him.

00:21:31.660 And his brother.

00:21:32.580 And they have,

00:21:34.620 from what I understand,

00:21:36.260 his parents who are teachers

00:21:38.040 in the education system

00:21:39.140 have had their careers upended.

00:21:41.220 That's right.

00:21:41.940 Yeah, the family lost their house.

00:21:43.680 Yep.

00:21:44.160 It's unbelievable.

00:21:46.800 And I've written about this.

00:21:48.500 Jagmeet Singh threatened him.

00:21:49.840 That's fun.

00:21:51.060 I'm sorry?

00:21:51.800 At a rally.

00:21:52.820 Jagmeet Singh threatened him at a rally.

00:21:55.800 Oh.

00:21:56.960 When he was marching with Antifa.

00:21:59.360 Now, when Singh was marching with Antifa,

00:22:03.760 let's make sure everyone

00:22:04.980 put that straight.

00:22:05.780 I assumed that.

00:22:06.560 But yeah, that is a good point.

00:22:09.440 So what do you say to people

00:22:11.560 who are worried about speaking up?

00:22:14.720 Because every time I write about you,

00:22:17.380 every time I talk about you,

00:22:18.600 I hear from people who say,

00:22:20.520 I wish I could,

00:22:22.560 but I can't lose my job.

00:22:25.400 Yeah.

00:22:26.000 Well, this is what I'd say to them,

00:22:28.680 is first of all,

00:22:31.260 you should be afraid of speaking up.

00:22:34.340 But you should be way more afraid of

00:22:36.420 hiding and pretending.

00:22:39.520 Because if you speak up,

00:22:43.320 you might lose your job.

00:22:44.180 But if you keep silent

00:22:45.780 when you have something to say,

00:22:47.700 you remember the story of Jonah?

00:22:50.040 Mm-hmm.

00:22:50.980 So God comes to Jonah and says,

00:22:53.200 people are misbehaving,

00:22:55.740 you know, in a city near here

00:22:57.660 that you hate. 1.00

00:22:58.620 And you wish they'd all go to hell. 1.00

00:23:00.040 But I just assumed you went, 1.00

00:23:01.700 you know,

00:23:02.660 said what you have to say to them.

00:23:04.020 Maybe you can do something about it.

00:23:05.440 And Jonah says, 0.99

00:23:06.140 no goddamn way. 0.99

00:23:07.000 I'm not going to that city. 1.00

00:23:08.580 I'm out of here.

00:23:09.460 So he gets on a boat

00:23:10.400 and God's not very happy

00:23:12.480 that he's disobeyed.

00:23:13.740 So he sends a storm

00:23:15.820 and the boat rocks

00:23:17.040 and the waves come

00:23:18.100 and the sailors find out

00:23:20.580 that Jonah has a beef with God.

00:23:22.600 And they try to save him,

00:23:24.780 but they can't.

00:23:25.420 And they eventually throw him overboard

00:23:26.640 to save the ship.

00:23:27.520 And then a huge and terrible monster

00:23:29.460 comes up from the depths

00:23:30.580 and seizes Jonah in its jaws

00:23:32.720 and takes him to the bottom

00:23:34.260 of reality itself,

00:23:35.920 right down to hell. 0.97

00:23:37.440 That's what happens to you 1.00

00:23:38.360 if you let the cat get your tongue

00:23:40.680 when you have something to say.

00:23:42.160 So, you know,

00:23:42.700 you might want to be terrified

00:23:43.820 about speaking up.

00:23:44.780 And fair enough, man.

00:23:45.940 I've had lots of clients

00:23:47.080 who were in a position

00:23:48.880 where their livelihood

00:23:50.980 was threatened by the fact

00:23:53.420 of their beliefs.

00:23:54.840 But there are worse things

00:23:57.360 than losing your job.

00:23:58.420 And you might think,

00:23:59.240 well, you know,

00:23:59.920 that's easy for you to say.

00:24:01.100 It's like, first of all,

00:24:01.840 no, actually,

00:24:02.640 it hasn't been that easy

00:24:03.440 for me to say,

00:24:04.580 although it's been

00:24:05.220 a hell of an adventure.

00:24:06.860 But I would just tell people,

00:24:09.680 you don't understand, guys.

00:24:10.980 You're afraid of the wrong thing.

00:24:13.300 Like, if we're in a situation now

00:24:16.380 where you have a job

00:24:17.440 that you can't hold

00:24:19.020 unless you're lying

00:24:21.780 through your silence

00:24:23.000 or your acquiescence,

00:24:24.460 then you either have

00:24:26.160 a lot of house cleaning

00:24:27.000 to do in your particular enterprise

00:24:28.500 or it's time for you

00:24:29.940 to find a new job.

00:24:32.100 And it couldn't be made

00:24:33.440 more stark than that.

00:24:34.960 And I understand that

00:24:35.900 that's extremely disruptive

00:24:36.960 to people,

00:24:37.600 but I'll tell you

00:24:38.340 what else is disruptive.

00:24:40.340 It's very disruptive

00:24:41.500 to raise your children

00:24:42.740 on a sinking ship.

00:24:44.760 And if you don't think

00:24:45.520 Canada's a sinking ship, 1.00

00:24:46.780 you're an idiot. 1.00

00:24:47.720 We now make less per capita 1.00

00:24:49.220 than people in Mississippi.

00:24:51.680 We're worse off

00:24:52.860 than the people

00:24:53.480 in the worst off state

00:24:54.800 in the U.S.

00:24:56.080 Yeah.

00:24:56.460 It's a race to the bottom.

00:24:57.820 The OECD predicts

00:24:59.320 that we'll be

00:24:59.720 the worst performing country

00:25:01.480 in the developed world

00:25:02.640 for the next three decades.

00:25:04.760 And that's just

00:25:05.580 the tip of the iceberg.

00:25:06.760 So, look,

00:25:07.920 I understand why

00:25:08.840 people are afraid,

00:25:09.560 but you've got to be afraid

00:25:12.820 of the right things in life.

00:25:14.400 And the thing

00:25:15.520 you should be afraid of most,

00:25:17.460 this isn't a metaphysical claim.

00:25:20.820 If you lose your integrity,

00:25:23.440 you fall apart.

00:25:26.080 You descend into anxiety.

00:25:28.520 You lose hope.

00:25:29.720 You become weak.

00:25:30.800 You become old.

00:25:32.160 You stress yourself.

00:25:33.820 Your job becomes

00:25:34.700 increasingly pointless.

00:25:36.120 You become bitter

00:25:36.940 and resentful.

00:25:37.840 Like,

00:25:39.420 you're not afraid of that?

00:25:41.460 Well, that's in the future.

00:25:42.820 It's like,

00:25:43.140 yeah, yeah,

00:25:43.680 that's for sure.

00:25:44.440 And maybe you'd lose

00:25:45.080 your job tomorrow.

00:25:45.920 That's possible.

00:25:46.940 But, you know,

00:25:47.560 if you stood up and fought,

00:25:49.300 you got up on your back legs

00:25:50.660 and fought,

00:25:51.180 you might find

00:25:51.820 that some people

00:25:53.360 you really admire

00:25:54.180 would come

00:25:55.320 and join you

00:25:56.300 and maybe you could win.

00:25:58.300 And then maybe

00:25:58.880 your kids could win.

00:26:00.840 Or you can...

00:26:02.840 I understand

00:26:04.140 why people don't speak up.

00:26:05.600 And so do I.

00:26:07.620 And I'm in a position,

00:26:09.620 you know,

00:26:10.040 it's different from yours.

00:26:11.460 You know,

00:26:12.000 as you said before,

00:26:14.020 you know,

00:26:14.400 over the last several years

00:26:15.760 you've been blessed

00:26:16.860 with support around the world,

00:26:18.440 with wealth and all of that.

00:26:19.780 I just happen to be

00:26:20.520 in a position

00:26:20.980 where I'm paid

00:26:22.180 to speak my mind.

00:26:23.080 I'm paid to

00:26:24.000 poke the bear. 0.99

00:26:26.760 And I've got employers

00:26:28.060 and bosses

00:26:29.700 who are supporting me

00:26:31.780 in that.

00:26:32.300 but I can understand

00:26:34.780 the fear

00:26:35.280 but I also understand

00:26:36.580 what you're saying.

00:26:37.580 It's difficult.

00:26:39.700 It's scary to say,

00:26:41.360 well,

00:26:42.320 but, you know,

00:26:43.240 the College for Barbers

00:26:44.760 now says

00:26:45.440 if I say something

00:26:46.320 on social media,

00:26:47.300 let's say,

00:26:48.080 that I will lose my license

00:26:49.460 or if I do X,

00:26:51.460 I will lose my ability

00:26:52.660 to be a teacher,

00:26:54.240 a plumber,

00:26:54.820 an electrician,

00:26:55.660 a doctor.

00:26:57.640 It's just a doctor

00:26:58.720 this week

00:26:59.260 who is in trouble

00:27:00.660 in Quebec

00:27:01.020 for misgendering someone.

00:27:03.040 Yeah.

00:27:03.520 Well,

00:27:03.800 which is something

00:27:04.360 I predicted,

00:27:05.140 by the way,

00:27:05.560 back in 2016

00:27:06.700 and all the law professors

00:27:09.200 who, you know,

00:27:10.280 came out to debate me

00:27:11.320 said,

00:27:11.660 oh, Peterson,

00:27:12.520 that'll never happen.

00:27:13.280 No one would ever

00:27:13.800 go to jail for that.

00:27:15.080 There would never be.

00:27:15.840 We don't really mean

00:27:16.900 what we're saying.

00:27:18.100 It's like,

00:27:18.340 it's a law,

00:27:19.300 boys and girls.

00:27:20.220 You break a law,

00:27:21.040 you pay the price.

00:27:22.400 Well,

00:27:22.620 it's just a little law.

00:27:23.860 It's like,

00:27:24.220 no,

00:27:24.860 nothing that has

00:27:25.600 the force of the state

00:27:26.860 behind it

00:27:27.380 is a little law.

00:27:28.500 It's not just politeness.

00:27:29.500 Politeness.

00:27:30.420 Why can't you use

00:27:31.280 their pronouns,

00:27:32.120 Dr. Peterson?

00:27:33.180 How about because

00:27:33.900 most of them

00:27:34.580 are lying, 1.00

00:27:35.440 narcissistic psychopaths? 1.00

00:27:37.280 How about that 0.99

00:27:37.740 for a reason?

00:27:38.860 And just so the college

00:27:40.340 is clear about that,

00:27:41.720 that's my professional opinion

00:27:43.180 and I'm speaking

00:27:44.120 as a psychologist.

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00:27:59.280 Scotiabank.

00:27:59.880 You're richer

00:28:00.340 than you think.

00:28:02.520 What are you going

00:28:03.320 to do next?

00:28:04.100 Are you going to

00:28:05.340 fight to keep

00:28:07.020 your license?

00:28:07.700 Are you going

00:28:08.040 to go through

00:28:08.780 with the trading?

00:28:09.520 Well,

00:28:09.760 I'm ambivalent.

00:28:12.160 I have a variety

00:28:13.020 of options.

00:28:13.740 I could just tell them 1.00

00:28:14.460 to go to hell 1.00

00:28:15.080 and resign. 1.00

00:28:17.360 There's some joy

00:28:17.800 in that,

00:28:18.300 isn't there?

00:28:19.200 Well,

00:28:19.720 I wouldn't say so

00:28:21.060 because I really,

00:28:22.080 I really,

00:28:23.240 like,

00:28:23.660 look,

00:28:24.160 I worked hard

00:28:25.020 to be a psychologist

00:28:25.820 and I worked hard

00:28:26.940 to be a good psychologist

00:28:27.960 and I enjoyed

00:28:29.560 helping people

00:28:30.340 and I was good at it.

00:28:32.240 And so,

00:28:33.160 I'm not

00:28:33.800 the least bit happy

00:28:35.980 about allowing

00:28:37.360 a pack of

00:28:38.040 jack and apes

00:28:38.700 to take away

00:28:40.500 what I earned.

00:28:42.660 And so,

00:28:43.240 I don't have

00:28:44.240 any delight in that.

00:28:45.060 Now,

00:28:45.280 that is counterbalanced

00:28:46.240 by my increasing sense

00:28:47.720 that I don't want

00:28:49.200 to be the member

00:28:49.800 of a club

00:28:50.460 of silent 1.00

00:28:51.900 and pathological cowards. 0.99

00:28:54.360 And increasingly, 0.99

00:28:55.220 that's what

00:28:55.780 being a psychologist

00:28:56.880 means in Canada.

00:28:58.380 And increasingly,

00:28:59.300 that's also what

00:28:59.900 being a professor means.

00:29:01.340 And so,

00:29:02.720 so,

00:29:04.700 you know,

00:29:05.040 that,

00:29:05.680 at some point,

00:29:06.800 a body

00:29:09.060 of professionals,

00:29:10.160 let's say,

00:29:10.520 can get so corrupt

00:29:11.340 that it's actually

00:29:11.940 an immoral act

00:29:12.760 to maintain

00:29:13.500 your affiliation

00:29:14.380 with them.

00:29:15.460 Now,

00:29:15.900 I can't exactly

00:29:17.120 make that pronouncement

00:29:18.320 right now

00:29:19.160 and resign

00:29:19.860 because,

00:29:20.920 obviously,

00:29:22.760 that's not well-timed

00:29:24.840 to say the least,

00:29:25.640 is it?

00:29:26.580 Well,

00:29:26.880 and then,

00:29:27.240 well,

00:29:27.440 you asked about options.

00:29:29.000 I could move

00:29:29.740 to the United States.

00:29:30.940 My daughter's in Arizona.

00:29:32.680 I'd pay way less tax.

00:29:33.980 People are happier

00:29:36.800 with me

00:29:37.440 in some sense

00:29:38.480 there than they are

00:29:39.140 in Toronto.

00:29:40.040 I'm probably less popular

00:29:41.300 in Toronto

00:29:41.720 than anywhere else

00:29:42.540 in the world,

00:29:43.100 as far as I can tell.

00:29:44.600 So that's kind of

00:29:45.460 interesting and weird.

00:29:48.740 I have lots of options.

00:29:50.240 I could just stop fighting.

00:29:52.060 I could take

00:29:52.720 the re-education course

00:29:53.820 and see what the hell

00:29:54.860 they're up to.

00:29:55.560 Right now,

00:29:56.100 that's the most likely outcome.

00:29:57.980 Could you become

00:29:58.480 a psychologist

00:29:59.160 in another province?

00:30:01.400 We'll see.

00:30:02.240 You know,

00:30:02.520 I'm looking into

00:30:03.140 that option.

00:30:04.660 I've had offers

00:30:05.960 of that sort

00:30:06.960 already

00:30:07.520 from multiple jurisdictions.

00:30:10.120 You know,

00:30:10.740 there's a difference

00:30:11.380 between an offer,

00:30:12.720 even if it's made

00:30:13.380 in good faith,

00:30:14.120 and something

00:30:14.580 that can actually happen.

00:30:16.420 It's not that easy

00:30:17.240 to join a...

00:30:18.800 It's not that easy

00:30:20.880 to become a professional

00:30:22.440 in a different jurisdiction.

00:30:24.160 There are a fair number

00:30:25.160 of hoops

00:30:25.500 that generally

00:30:26.020 have to be jumped through.

00:30:27.760 But it's a possibility.

00:30:30.840 So you're leaning

00:30:31.920 towards taking the training.

00:30:33.380 Is that out of curiosity?

00:30:36.440 Look,

00:30:36.960 I'm in a business

00:30:37.800 where if you don't have curiosity,

00:30:39.560 you shouldn't be in the business.

00:30:40.780 So I might do that.

00:30:42.720 But why would you take the training

00:30:44.560 which you've described

00:30:45.920 as re-education camp?

00:30:47.280 Well,

00:30:49.440 as you pointed out,

00:30:50.540 you know,

00:30:50.740 some of that

00:30:51.240 would be curiosity,

00:30:52.260 but it would also be...

00:30:54.740 And that...

00:30:55.320 I like to get

00:30:56.040 to the bottom of things,

00:30:56.980 and that would be

00:30:57.760 another way

00:30:58.820 of getting

00:30:59.140 to the bottom of things.

00:30:59.960 Because I'm actually...

00:31:00.860 I actually am curious

00:31:01.840 because I've been thinking

00:31:03.320 about how I would

00:31:04.080 handle myself,

00:31:05.500 let's say,

00:31:06.040 in the first course,

00:31:07.840 whatever that would be.

00:31:10.280 I would like to find out

00:31:11.640 what the person

00:31:12.380 who's going to conduct

00:31:13.260 this retraining...

00:31:14.320 Like,

00:31:15.060 okay,

00:31:15.660 what do you think

00:31:16.980 you're doing?

00:31:17.400 What do you think

00:31:17.900 my crime is?

00:31:19.400 Exactly.

00:31:20.320 And what do you think

00:31:21.320 I should do instead?

00:31:22.260 And how is it

00:31:23.420 that I could learn from you,

00:31:24.880 even in principle?

00:31:26.220 And what do you think

00:31:26.960 you have to teach me?

00:31:27.920 Like,

00:31:28.540 I really am curious

00:31:29.500 about that,

00:31:30.140 and investigating all that

00:31:32.680 would give me

00:31:33.180 the opportunity

00:31:33.760 to understand it

00:31:34.880 more deeply.

00:31:35.820 I mean,

00:31:36.020 I think I understand

00:31:36.860 it to some degree already,

00:31:37.820 but this is really

00:31:38.540 where the rubber

00:31:39.060 hits the road,

00:31:39.780 isn't it?

00:31:40.500 It would help me

00:31:41.160 figure out how far

00:31:41.900 they're willing to go.

00:31:45.860 And I could communicate

00:31:47.060 that to people,

00:31:48.260 you know,

00:31:48.520 and that might be

00:31:49.100 real useful,

00:31:50.220 even though it's a pain.

00:31:53.780 So,

00:31:54.360 what's your warning

00:31:55.920 to Canadians

00:31:57.560 in general?

00:31:59.640 You've kind of made it

00:32:00.980 that everyone

00:32:02.180 should be concerned

00:32:02.920 about this,

00:32:03.380 and I've tried

00:32:03.900 to make people

00:32:04.800 get that,

00:32:05.600 but,

00:32:06.780 you know,

00:32:08.240 if we don't have

00:32:09.500 a change in direction,

00:32:13.260 then it's not

00:32:14.860 that necessarily

00:32:15.580 government is going

00:32:16.700 to dictate

00:32:17.140 how we live our lives,

00:32:18.280 it will be

00:32:19.040 these petty bureaucrats 0.65

00:32:20.800 who are in

00:32:21.780 administrative roles

00:32:23.820 that will determine

00:32:24.520 everything.

00:32:25.340 That's right.

00:32:25.920 Well,

00:32:26.440 that's exactly it.

00:32:27.280 What's happened

00:32:27.820 is that the spirit

00:32:28.820 of tyranny

00:32:29.400 has determined

00:32:31.660 how to invade

00:32:32.880 low-level bureaucracies

00:32:35.560 and exert itself.

00:32:36.920 We're protected

00:32:37.940 to some degree

00:32:38.760 against tyranny

00:32:40.080 at the highest levels

00:32:41.200 of the political,

00:32:43.240 but we're not protected

00:32:44.520 at all

00:32:45.120 against creeping tyranny

00:32:46.620 in the administrative state,

00:32:48.700 and especially

00:32:50.540 when the judiciary

00:32:52.260 enables precisely

00:32:54.440 those actors.

00:32:56.000 And they are not

00:32:58.200 responsible

00:32:59.640 to the market

00:33:01.220 as you are

00:33:02.000 if you're 0.99

00:33:02.420 an evil capitalist,

00:33:04.600 and they're not

00:33:05.220 responsible to,

00:33:07.280 in any real sense,

00:33:08.860 to the electorate.

00:33:10.920 not in any true sense.

00:33:13.260 And so,

00:33:13.760 they can find

00:33:14.580 their sinecures,

00:33:16.400 and,

00:33:16.900 you know,

00:33:18.160 it's very frequently

00:33:19.140 the case that

00:33:19.920 on regulatory boards,

00:33:22.820 regulatory boards

00:33:23.680 attract the sort

00:33:24.360 of people

00:33:24.660 who like to do

00:33:25.340 exactly the sorts

00:33:26.280 of things

00:33:26.600 that they're doing

00:33:27.060 to me.

00:33:27.380 So,

00:33:30.040 what should Canadians

00:33:33.840 think?

00:33:36.900 The Canadians

00:33:37.900 who are silent

00:33:38.600 when their conscience

00:33:39.360 is telling them

00:33:40.540 to speak

00:33:41.080 should pray 1.00

00:33:41.860 that they die 1.00

00:33:42.580 before the full

00:33:43.360 consequences 1.00

00:33:44.000 of their stupidity 1.00

00:33:44.980 make themselves manifest. 1.00

00:33:46.620 But they'll have

00:33:47.100 their children

00:33:47.620 to suffer.

00:33:48.960 Their children

00:33:49.400 can suffer for them

00:33:50.400 because that's

00:33:51.060 the consequences

00:33:52.460 of silence.

00:33:53.560 It really is

00:33:54.760 an erosion

00:33:55.180 of freedom.

00:33:55.700 And,

00:33:56.560 you know,

00:33:57.520 I look at that

00:33:58.800 ruling from

00:33:59.800 Paul Chavis,

00:34:01.140 the judge

00:34:02.040 at the Ontario

00:34:02.640 Superior Court

00:34:03.400 of Justice,

00:34:04.100 and my goodness,

00:34:05.560 it is an aberration

00:34:07.660 of justice,

00:34:08.880 what he wrote,

00:34:09.820 his convoluted ruling.

00:34:11.380 And I know

00:34:12.060 it's last August

00:34:12.980 and I hate

00:34:13.380 to go back to that,

00:34:14.160 but the man

00:34:16.680 was all over

00:34:17.460 the map on this

00:34:18.240 and because

00:34:19.220 the appeals court

00:34:20.580 just decided

00:34:21.740 not to grant

00:34:22.380 you leave to appeal,

00:34:23.260 gave no reasons,

00:34:24.100 your attempt

00:34:27.000 to fix this

00:34:28.080 is dead

00:34:28.500 and a horrible

00:34:29.700 ruling by

00:34:30.440 an activist

00:34:31.080 judge

00:34:31.660 who should be

00:34:32.640 hanging his head

00:34:33.320 in shame 0.99

00:34:33.860 now becomes

00:34:34.900 precedent.

00:34:36.560 Yeah,

00:34:36.880 that's right.

00:34:38.080 You got her,

00:34:38.740 buddy.

00:34:39.420 And you said

00:34:40.500 erosion of freedom.

00:34:41.580 It's like,

00:34:41.920 no,

00:34:42.240 we should make it

00:34:43.000 more stark than that.

00:34:44.420 Canadians do not 1.00

00:34:45.260 understand this.

00:34:47.560 Their freedoms

00:34:48.300 are already gone.

00:34:49.820 What we have

00:34:50.380 is the,

00:34:50.940 we have the remnants

00:34:51.980 of freedoms.

00:34:52.960 We have the echoes

00:34:54.080 and ghosts

00:34:54.780 of freedoms.

00:34:55.980 We have the apparatus

00:34:57.820 of freedom.

00:34:58.920 The freedoms

00:34:59.360 are already gone

00:35:00.200 and now the consequences

00:35:01.740 of that are going

00:35:02.380 to unfold.

00:35:03.220 Now you can already

00:35:03.820 see that happening

00:35:04.660 in Canada's economic

00:35:05.720 decline,

00:35:06.440 but it's certainly

00:35:07.180 not going to stop

00:35:07.920 there.

00:35:09.260 I mean,

00:35:09.640 so,

00:35:10.280 if that's what,

00:35:12.380 if that's what people

00:35:13.340 want,

00:35:14.000 if that's by their

00:35:15.340 silence,

00:35:15.860 if that's what they're

00:35:16.580 requesting by their

00:35:17.540 silence,

00:35:18.220 if they're requesting

00:35:19.200 their own slavery

00:35:20.100 by their silence,

00:35:21.480 which is the silence

00:35:22.500 of slaves,

00:35:23.440 by the way,

00:35:24.320 then they'll attract

00:35:25.880 tyranny in precise

00:35:28.100 proportion to that.

00:35:30.020 Some people say-

00:35:30.880 It's very hard

00:35:31.420 for Canadians

00:35:32.040 because we are

00:35:33.160 accustomed to

00:35:34.040 assuming that our

00:35:35.120 fundamental institutions

00:35:36.800 are sound,

00:35:38.720 and they were

00:35:39.360 for a long time.

00:35:40.800 You could trust

00:35:41.380 that the political

00:35:42.540 parties essentially

00:35:43.540 stood for what

00:35:44.240 they said they stood

00:35:45.040 for.

00:35:45.520 You didn't have a

00:35:46.540 situation where the

00:35:47.340 Liberals were

00:35:48.040 way left of the

00:35:49.780 NDP,

00:35:50.480 which is certainly

00:35:51.000 the case in

00:35:51.640 Canada now,

00:35:52.980 for example.

00:35:54.060 Like,

00:35:54.760 people were playing

00:35:55.880 an ideological game,

00:35:57.600 but to the degree

00:35:58.240 that it was possible

00:35:59.000 they were playing

00:35:59.500 that straight.

00:36:00.220 You could basically,

00:36:01.180 when I grew up,

00:36:01.800 you could basically

00:36:02.460 trust the CBC.

00:36:04.700 Certainly,

00:36:05.940 some of the

00:36:06.420 journalists at the

00:36:07.100 CBC,

00:36:08.060 the universities

00:36:08.680 were doing a

00:36:09.420 credible job.

00:36:10.340 Even the school

00:36:11.020 systems,

00:36:11.640 which,

00:36:11.880 you know,

00:36:12.020 I hated going to

00:36:12.800 school when I was

00:36:13.360 a kid.

00:36:13.720 I thought that the

00:36:14.800 system was dreadfully

00:36:15.700 incompetent,

00:36:16.300 but now it's

00:36:18.200 staggeringly 0.95

00:36:19.040 incompetent, 0.99

00:36:20.080 plus it's

00:36:21.040 ideologically

00:36:21.800 addled to a

00:36:22.700 degree that is

00:36:23.740 truly diagnosable

00:36:25.420 clinically.

00:36:28.220 And so this

00:36:28.680 isn't going to

00:36:29.980 happen in 10

00:36:30.800 years.

00:36:31.820 This is now.

00:36:33.160 And people

00:36:34.540 are 10 years

00:36:35.260 behind the

00:36:35.740 curve,

00:36:36.060 fundamentally,

00:36:36.660 or maybe even

00:36:37.240 15.

00:36:37.900 And so I can

00:36:39.720 understand why

00:36:40.380 that is,

00:36:40.800 too.

00:36:40.940 It's very hard

00:36:41.760 now to inform

00:36:44.000 yourself properly

00:36:46.100 as to how the

00:36:47.420 world is unfolding

00:36:48.240 because things

00:36:48.780 are changing

00:36:49.460 at a rate that's

00:36:51.080 just beyond

00:36:52.080 belief.

00:36:52.700 And most

00:36:53.440 people don't

00:36:54.240 know where

00:36:55.160 to get

00:36:55.640 credible

00:36:56.540 information.

00:36:58.580 So,

00:36:58.980 you know,

00:37:00.720 I watched the

00:37:01.360 universities.

00:37:02.320 Hey,

00:37:02.580 so what

00:37:02.880 happened in

00:37:03.240 the universities?

00:37:04.660 Well,

00:37:05.180 first of all,

00:37:05.660 the administration

00:37:06.340 took over the

00:37:07.420 universities.

00:37:08.740 And that took

00:37:09.580 about 30

00:37:10.140 years.

00:37:10.480 and the

00:37:12.440 professors

00:37:12.880 stepped back

00:37:13.840 every time

00:37:14.540 they were

00:37:14.960 asked to

00:37:15.520 until there

00:37:16.660 was really

00:37:17.040 nothing left

00:37:17.660 of them.

00:37:18.780 And then the

00:37:19.200 woke mob

00:37:19.760 took over the

00:37:20.320 administration.

00:37:22.260 And that

00:37:23.140 took about

00:37:23.740 five years

00:37:24.900 when they

00:37:25.860 really got

00:37:26.240 going.

00:37:27.100 And now the

00:37:27.640 woke mob

00:37:28.180 is going to

00:37:28.560 take over

00:37:28.920 the sciences,

00:37:29.640 too.

00:37:30.720 I mean,

00:37:31.860 that's already

00:37:32.900 more or less

00:37:33.500 a fait accompli.

00:37:35.060 And the

00:37:35.620 Americans are

00:37:36.140 starting to

00:37:36.580 wake up to

00:37:37.040 this, to

00:37:37.460 this, to

00:37:37.820 some degree.

00:37:38.440 You know,

00:37:38.580 you saw the

00:37:40.000 presidents of

00:37:40.680 UPenn, MIT,

00:37:41.960 and Harvard

00:37:42.400 reveal their

00:37:44.940 abysmally

00:37:47.880 malevolent 0.91

00:37:48.860 ignorance and 0.92

00:37:50.000 presumption in

00:37:51.320 D.C., not

00:37:52.520 even noticing

00:37:53.240 they were

00:37:53.640 doing it.

00:37:54.640 The consequence

00:37:55.520 of that was

00:37:56.380 the demise of

00:37:57.100 two of them.

00:37:57.680 But, Jesus,

00:37:58.840 all that did

00:37:59.440 was brush

00:37:59.900 a little rust

00:38:00.420 off the

00:38:01.260 surface.

00:38:02.220 There's a lot

00:38:02.640 more to go.

00:38:05.340 Dr.

00:38:05.900 I want to

00:38:07.500 thank you

00:38:07.940 for your

00:38:09.080 generous

00:38:09.560 generosity

00:38:10.340 with your

00:38:10.740 time today.

00:38:12.480 It's

00:38:12.880 always a

00:38:14.600 pleasure

00:38:14.780 talking to

00:38:15.260 you, and

00:38:15.960 hopefully

00:38:17.160 something can

00:38:17.840 change.

00:38:18.180 I know

00:38:18.360 some people

00:38:18.780 say just

00:38:19.140 vote Trudeau

00:38:19.700 out.

00:38:20.420 I think

00:38:20.780 it's more

00:38:21.220 than that.

00:38:21.760 It's got

00:38:22.040 to be a

00:38:22.420 lot more

00:38:22.860 than that,

00:38:23.680 and it's

00:38:23.960 a big

00:38:24.180 job ahead

00:38:24.660 of us.

00:38:25.100 So,

00:38:25.720 thanks for

00:38:26.420 taking the

00:38:26.820 time and

00:38:27.420 discussing all

00:38:28.100 of this

00:38:28.540 with us

00:38:28.900 today.

00:38:29.760 Yeah,

00:38:29.980 well,

00:38:30.220 thanks for

00:38:30.660 your attention

00:38:31.200 to this

00:38:31.680 and your

00:38:32.460 attempts to

00:38:33.040 bring it

00:38:33.380 to wider

00:38:33.820 public

00:38:34.260 awareness.

00:38:34.940 You know,

00:38:35.180 I don't

00:38:35.840 really think

00:38:36.300 this is about

00:38:36.900 me,

00:38:37.220 and I guess

00:38:37.800 I could

00:38:38.060 close with

00:38:38.540 that.

00:38:40.040 I don't

00:38:40.660 have a

00:38:41.040 horse in

00:38:41.420 this race

00:38:41.880 in some

00:38:42.260 ways.

00:38:43.520 I have the

00:38:45.280 luxury now

00:38:46.440 of being

00:38:47.140 able to do

00:38:47.640 pretty much

00:38:48.300 whatever the

00:38:48.720 hell I want

00:38:49.320 as long as

00:38:49.780 I'm somewhat

00:38:51.100 careful.

00:38:52.120 I don't have

00:38:52.680 to have this

00:38:53.300 war, but

00:38:54.580 at the

00:38:56.180 moment I'm

00:38:56.740 still choosing

00:38:57.620 to do it

00:38:58.160 because I

00:38:59.120 think that,

00:39:00.360 look, man,

00:39:01.380 if this

00:39:01.700 board can

00:39:02.140 take me

00:39:02.540 out, and

00:39:03.640 they probably

00:39:04.220 will, what

00:39:06.900 makes anyone

00:39:07.900 else think

00:39:08.500 that they're

00:39:09.080 not on

00:39:10.500 the line?

00:39:11.000 You could

00:39:11.400 justify that

00:39:12.000 by saying,

00:39:12.460 well, you

00:39:12.760 know, if

00:39:13.200 you weren't

00:39:13.480 so mouthy

00:39:14.020 and reprehensible,

00:39:15.260 nothing would

00:39:15.660 have happened

00:39:16.000 to you.

00:39:16.660 The old

00:39:17.120 tyrannical

00:39:18.000 line, you 0.92

00:39:18.480 know, is

00:39:18.740 if you

00:39:19.920 didn't do

00:39:20.340 anything wrong,

00:39:21.100 you have

00:39:21.360 nothing to

00:39:21.840 worry about,

00:39:22.520 which is

00:39:22.780 what every

00:39:23.340 tyrant always

00:39:24.260 says.

00:39:24.760 It's like,

00:39:25.440 you better

00:39:25.680 search your

00:39:26.180 souls, boys

00:39:26.740 and girls, 0.92

00:39:27.300 and see if

00:39:27.840 you have

00:39:28.080 anything to

00:39:28.500 worry about

00:39:28.940 because I

00:39:29.380 don't know

00:39:29.760 anyone who's

00:39:31.140 pure enough

00:39:31.760 in heart

00:39:32.220 to escape

00:39:33.340 the tyrannical

00:39:35.980 and penny

00:39:36.800 pinching

00:39:37.380 micromanagers

00:39:38.540 if they get

00:39:39.640 you in

00:39:41.160 their sights.

00:39:43.380 No, it's

00:39:44.800 the old

00:39:45.100 line, those

00:39:45.640 of us who

00:39:46.100 have not

00:39:46.900 sinned, cast

00:39:47.520 the first

00:39:47.900 stone, well,

00:39:48.520 we'd all put

00:39:49.000 down our

00:39:49.340 stones at

00:39:49.740 that point.

00:39:50.280 Dr. Peterson,

00:39:50.980 thanks so

00:39:51.320 much.

00:39:52.240 You bet, man.

00:39:52.880 Good talking

00:39:53.320 to you.

00:39:54.060 I hope you

00:39:54.760 enjoyed this

00:39:55.260 conversation with

00:39:56.120 Dr. Jordan

00:39:56.760 Peterson.

00:39:57.320 You can agree

00:39:58.240 with him, you

00:39:58.700 can disagree

00:39:59.240 with him,

00:39:59.660 but there's

00:40:00.040 no doubt

00:40:00.520 that this

00:40:01.040 court ruling,

00:40:02.320 this procedure

00:40:03.040 he's going

00:40:03.600 through is

00:40:04.080 going to have

00:40:04.560 a major

00:40:04.940 impact on

00:40:05.580 the lives

00:40:05.960 of many.

00:40:06.880 So let

00:40:07.300 us know

00:40:07.520 what you

00:40:07.780 think, make

00:40:08.560 sure that

00:40:08.900 you reach

00:40:09.600 out to

00:40:09.940 us, drop

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BEST OF 2024： Jordan Peterson on why everyone should be afraid of what happened to him

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