The Critical Compass Podcast - March 24, 2024


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Jordan Peterson

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In this episode, I talk about what it means to be a liberal and a conservative, and how to balance the two, and why it s important to foster a healthy push-pull between the two. I also talk about the role of creativity, and the importance of fostering a healthy sense of innovation.

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00:00:00.000 the fundamental difference between progressives and conservatives and like i you know growing up
00:00:10.960 as a young liberal in the city i always thought of you know the the liberals as the you know the
00:00:18.180 the hopeful the the ones who were changing the you know wanted to mold a better future and and
00:00:23.900 conservatives as like stodgy old men in business suits who you know wanted to you know preserve 0.70
00:00:28.960 their wealth and not have it you know which you know is a stereotype of maybe like like early
00:00:36.660 2000s mid-2000s neocons but um what this person was saying was that actually if you think about it
00:00:43.640 a progressive is actually never like by their very own definition of their politics they're never
00:00:49.140 actually truly happy with the state of the world they're always wanting to change it and form it
00:00:53.620 into something else because it's not sufficient it's not good the way it is it needs to be something
00:00:58.160 else whereas a conservative actually likes the current state of you know whatever particular
00:01:04.060 area of the world they're in and they want to conserve it because they see value in it so
00:01:08.000 that kind of changed my opinion of what what it means to be on either end of the political spectrum
00:01:13.780 and i kind of get you know you know if you want to call it conservative that you want to
00:01:19.060 preserve certain traditions and institutions that are in fact valuable and effective well if that's
00:01:26.860 conservative then that's there isn't necessarily anything stodgy or you know dusty and miserable
00:01:34.120 about that that's actually quite positive well i believe uh jordan peterson's written about this a
00:01:40.920 little bit and he's talked about it as well but um there's two ways that you can think about it
00:01:46.500 is um you can think of it on the political like the social dynamic of there's a constant conversation
00:01:55.020 between like conservatism of wanting to preserve the structures that have built everything that we
00:02:02.420 have now and this kind of creative reforming energy that wants to think about well how can we change
00:02:08.700 this how can we make a different or better world but he also talks about that every liberal should
00:02:16.620 strive to build a world worth conserving because if you're always changing and you're always reforming
00:02:22.520 and you have no stability like that that's where things kind of fall apart if if there's if you're
00:02:29.260 in a constant state of um like change what's the difference between just reform and progress and
00:02:38.280 destabilization because that that line gets very tricky at some points and i think even that's on the
00:02:46.540 societal level but i think within our minds um you could draw a parallel to we've got established ways
00:02:52.740 of thinking you have established ideas you have habits you have things that your brain wants to
00:02:58.120 conserve or a way of thinking that you want to conserve and then you have these new ideas this creative
00:03:04.880 element of thinking about well what can be done differently and i think there's a push-pull in every
00:03:09.600 individual as well as on the societal level and i don't know if we give enough credit to like
00:03:15.200 fostering how do you foster a healthy push-pull between these two between these two dynamics
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