The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - April 20, 2017


How To Change The World

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Jordan B. Peterson Mikhaila Peterson
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Jordan Peterson John Stuart Mill Alexander Solzhenitsyn Sam Harris Richard Dawkins Jonathan Haidt Karl Marx Geppetto Carl Jung Ginny Christopher Hitchens Friedrich Nietzsche Jiminy Cricket George Orwell Leo Tolstoy Dan Dennett Huxley Belief Thou
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In this episode, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson discusses his new series, How to Change the World Properly, which focuses on the need for a better understanding of the world and how to change it properly. Dr. Peterson argues that the best way to change the world is to understand it better, and that the key to understanding it better is to begin to understand what it means to be a better human being. He argues that a better way to understand the world begins with understanding what it is to be human, and why it is important to understand that we are all in this together. This episode is the first part of a two-part series on Dr. B.P. Peterson s new series on depression and anxiety, which is available now on Daily Wire Plus. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/sponsorships/OurAdvertisers and use coupon code: "ELISSA" to receive 10% off your first purchase when you enter the offer ends on January 1st, 2020. To learn more about our sponsor discount code: CROWN10 at checkout, click here. We are a proud affiliate of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, CROWN.org/PODCAST. Our mission is to Reach, Educate, Teach, and Empower people to be their best selves in the most impactful and impactful ways possible. We are committed to educating, caring, and inspiring them to live their best lives through the power and impact they can have a positive impact on the world through their words and actions. Thank you for making a difference in the lives, and words, everywhere they receive them in the world, and everywhere they see them everywhere they go. You can help change the most important thing we can affect the most effective way possible, and help them achieve a brighter future you can impact their best day to impact the most meaningful impact, and they can be their biggest impact. You can make a difference by becoming a voice and impact every day by being a voice, not just in their day to the world they can affect their most important day, and every day, by being their most impact, not only by listening to the most influential voice they can influence their voice, and their most effective day, their voice is a voice is heard by the most profound impact, their most influential and most effective, and you can help them are a voice in their most authentic voice.

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00:00:00.940 Hey everyone, real quick before you skip, I want to talk to you about something serious and important.
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00:00:57.400 Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.
00:01:01.900 This is episode 15, How to Change the World Properly.
00:01:10.400 The first half of this episode was released on YouTube as My Message to Millennials, How to Change the World Properly.
00:01:20.160 The second half of this podcast is Dr. Peterson's New Year's Message to the World.
00:01:25.200 Hi there. This is my message to millennials about how to change the world.
00:01:55.540 And I would say how to change the world properly.
00:01:58.500 Of course, the question then is, well, exactly what do you mean by properly?
00:02:01.900 And, of course, that's the fundamental issue.
00:02:03.800 So this was triggered in part by something I read recently by Jonathan Haidt.
00:02:08.500 And Jonathan Haidt is the professor of ethical leadership at the NYU Stern School of Business.
00:02:13.160 And he's been a very astute commentator recently on some of the political battles that have been going on in the social sciences, noting, for example, that there is very little political diversity in the views of social scientists and perhaps even less on the part of the people in the humanities.
00:02:28.220 And Haidt recently wrote something, which I'll put a link to in the description of this video, where he claimed that universities have to decide between social justice and truth.
00:02:41.500 And on the side of truth, he puts a philosopher named John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, who said,
00:02:47.860 And then he juxtaposes John Stuart Mill with Karl Marx, who said,
00:03:09.200 The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways.
00:03:12.300 The point is to change it.
00:03:13.800 He considers Marx the patron saint of social justice university, which is oriented around changing the world in part by overthrowing power structures and privilege.
00:03:23.840 It sees political diversity as an obstacle to action.
00:03:27.540 Mill, on the other hand, according to Haidt, is the patron saint of what he calls truth you, which sees truth as a process in which flawed individuals challenge each other's biased and incomplete reasoning.
00:03:38.000 And in the process, all become smarter.
00:03:41.120 Haidt points out that truth university dies when it becomes intellectually uniform or politically orthodox.
00:03:46.540 So, I guess this video is in part my call, along with Jonathan Haidt, for young people to join truth university.
00:03:55.300 But there's a problem with that, because the university is where the truth is being sought.
00:03:59.900 That's the university.
00:04:01.080 But there's a problem, and that is that young people want to change the world.
00:04:03.820 And it's part of what Piaget, the developmental psychologist Piaget, called the messianic stage.
00:04:09.860 And there's some real utility in that, because we're social creatures.
00:04:13.360 And as we construct ourselves and formulate ourselves and bring our own character into being, predicated on our biological platform, our biological being,
00:04:25.280 we also simultaneously have to adjust to integrate with and negotiate with society, which sometimes needs to be changed.
00:04:33.080 The structure of society has to be preserved, but it has to be updated and improved as it moves forward.
00:04:38.000 And so part of the problem is how to update and improve it without doing that so rapidly that you destroy everything of any value.
00:04:44.900 So, the problem I have with the Marxist perspective, and I've had this problem with it for a long time,
00:04:50.320 is that I don't think that you should trust people whose primary goal, when they're attempting to change the world for the better, is to change other people.
00:04:59.220 And you can tell who those people are, because they're always blaming other people, and they're looking for victims.
00:05:03.100 They're looking for perpetrators and victims, and then they're going off to stop the perpetrators.
00:05:06.960 And I think that's wrong, because as Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, he's a great Russian writer who helped bring down the Soviet Union.
00:05:13.740 He said, the line between good and evil runs down every human's heart.
00:05:18.640 So, the real battle, as far as I'm concerned, and I think this goes along with the tradition in which John Stuart Mill is firmly placed in,
00:05:25.980 is that to overcome tyranny and malevolence and chaos and nihilism and the desire to bring everything to a halt,
00:05:33.500 you have to repair the fissures and the rift that's in your own soul, basically.
00:05:39.960 And that means that you have to confront the evil that lives in your own heart.
00:05:44.200 And there's a statement from the New Testament that I think is very much apropos with regards to this particular idea.
00:05:50.480 And this is part of the Sermon on the Mount, which is a central text in the Western tradition,
00:05:57.900 I would say, obviously central to Christianity, but central to everything that Western civilization has built.
00:06:03.500 And so Christ says to his followers,
00:06:05.540 Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
00:06:14.200 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out of thine eye?
00:06:18.900 And behold, a beam is in thine own eye. 0.99
00:06:22.140 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, 0.98
00:06:25.700 and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's eye. 0.99
00:06:29.920 Well, I like that quote because it places the responsibility for change at every level of being on the individual.
00:06:38.840 And obviously the individual interacts with society,
00:06:40.840 but the idea here is that unless the individual straightens out his or her own soul,
00:06:45.680 there's no possibility that the impact the individual can have on society can be anything but,
00:06:50.320 say, harmful in proportion to the harm that's still in the soul.
00:06:53.960 These are important things to know.
00:06:55.300 They're vitally important things to know.
00:06:57.700 So, okay, so, but then we're faced with the conundrum that young people also want to change the world.
00:07:02.420 But that's no problem because I think you can bring,
00:07:04.140 you can bring truth university together with the desire to,
00:07:08.040 to make real change.
00:07:09.680 But change, change, change has to start in the right place.
00:07:13.100 So I'm going to tell you how I think you should change yourself so that you can change the world.
00:07:17.980 And so that the world that you bring into being will be a better world and not a worse one.
00:07:21.520 Remember, remember, you need to know about this,
00:07:24.640 that the world that the followers of Marx brought into being in the 20th century
00:07:28.300 killed more than 100 million people, say, in China and Russia.
00:07:32.280 I mean, the Soviet Union and in places like Cambodia and Vietnam.
00:07:35.860 The world certainly changed as a consequence of Marxist doctrine,
00:07:38.780 but it didn't change in a good direction.
00:07:40.860 And, of course, the Marxist doctrine is making itself heard in a massive way across the West again now.
00:07:47.100 So, all right, so what should you do about that?
00:07:49.980 Well, here's an idea.
00:07:52.580 The first thing you have to do is orient yourself.
00:07:55.120 Now, you probably have all watched Pinocchio.
00:07:57.360 And Pinocchio is about how a marionette,
00:07:59.280 someone whose strings are being pulled by forces beyond his comprehension,
00:08:03.740 that's the situation of the undeveloped individual.
00:08:07.220 Geppetto, who's a benevolent father,
00:08:09.080 so a benevolent symbol, a symbol of benevolent culture,
00:08:12.520 makes a puppet, his son,
00:08:14.800 and then wishes on a star.
00:08:16.780 Now, a star is something that glitters up in the sky,
00:08:18.980 and it's associated with the transcendent and the beyond and the divine.
00:08:23.080 And, you know, if you look up in the night sky and it's very dark,
00:08:25.660 you get a feeling of awe.
00:08:26.840 It's because you're confronting your soul, so to speak,
00:08:29.560 your individual soul is confronting the cosmos,
00:08:31.520 and you can feel a relationship between you and the totality.
00:08:36.180 So looking up into the sky is like a religious experience,
00:08:39.060 if it's a starry sky.
00:08:41.060 And to wish upon a star is to find a light that orients you,
00:08:44.660 like the North Star,
00:08:45.960 and to pick a highest goal,
00:08:47.540 to pick the highest goal you can conceive of.
00:08:49.500 And so that's what Geppetto does.
00:08:50.820 He raises his eyes above his day-to-day concerns
00:08:54.460 and tries to establish a relationship with the highest of all possible values.
00:08:59.440 And he has the most profound of wishes,
00:09:02.740 and the most profound of wishes is that the puppet that he's created
00:09:05.820 could become a genuine individual, genuinely, fully developed human being.
00:09:11.240 And that's what you can wish for yourself.
00:09:13.500 You can wish and aim for that in yourself.
00:09:16.920 And then, you see, that's how you deal with the suffering that's a tenant on life,
00:09:20.580 because life is suffering,
00:09:21.880 and because life is very hard,
00:09:23.380 and people get sick,
00:09:24.320 and they become mentally ill, 0.78
00:09:26.480 and there's malevolence in the world, 0.98
00:09:28.500 and there's tragedy.
00:09:29.420 And so life is very, very hard.
00:09:30.720 And if you're not properly oriented with regards to life,
00:09:34.000 the fact that it's hard,
00:09:35.420 and the fact that it's full of suffering,
00:09:36.920 can warp and twist and bend you
00:09:39.120 until you become murderous and resentful,
00:09:41.360 and even go beyond murderous and resentment,
00:09:43.820 to wish for genocide, 0.60
00:09:45.440 and even to wish for the destruction of everything.
00:09:48.360 And so you have to learn how to strengthen yourself as an individual,
00:09:51.980 so that you can bear the burden of being without becoming corrupt.
00:09:56.000 You have to decide that that is what you're aiming for,
00:09:58.560 is that you want to become a fully developed human being, 1.00
00:10:00.740 and stop being a pathetic marionette, 0.99
00:10:03.260 whose strings are being pulled by horrible forces behind the scenes. 0.99
00:10:07.040 So, I would say to wish on a star is to aim at the highest good,
00:10:10.720 and the question then is,
00:10:11.660 well, what is the good?
00:10:13.720 Well, we can answer that in two ways.
00:10:16.180 We could say that the good is the opposite of evil,
00:10:19.200 and I can tell you what evil is.
00:10:21.220 Evil is the conscious desire to produce suffering,
00:10:24.620 where suffering is not necessary.
00:10:26.240 And so, if you read about what happened in the Nazi concentration camps,
00:10:30.220 for example,
00:10:30.760 or in the Russian concentration camps during the time of the Soviet Union,
00:10:34.800 you get a good flavor for what constitutes evil.
00:10:37.620 And evil is the desire to exploit the vulnerability of other people,
00:10:41.060 to self-consciously exploit the vulnerability of other people,
00:10:43.980 and to elevate their suffering beyond their or anyone's ability to tolerate.
00:10:47.980 And so the good is the opposite of that.
00:10:49.440 Whatever the opposite of that is,
00:10:51.400 the good is harder to get a handle on.
00:10:52.880 But here's one hint,
00:10:54.520 and I got this from reading Jean Piaget,
00:10:56.520 partly, who's a developmental psychologist.
00:10:58.860 And Piaget talked about the equilibrated state,
00:11:02.460 and an equilibrated state is like a game that children play,
00:11:05.360 where every child wants to play the game.
00:11:07.620 You have a little social group,
00:11:08.900 and that's the children's play group,
00:11:10.420 and you have the individuals within it.
00:11:12.420 Those are the individual children,
00:11:13.720 and the structure is the game.
00:11:15.200 And it's a good game if everyone wants to play it.
00:11:19.340 And Piaget noted that a game like that will outperform a game
00:11:22.940 that people have to be tyrannized to play,
00:11:24.860 because it doesn't entail,
00:11:26.380 it doesn't require any enforcement cost.
00:11:29.020 And so I've sort of developed the idea of an equilibrated state
00:11:33.020 to think that if you're aiming at the good,
00:11:36.440 then you want what's good for you.
00:11:38.180 And I mean good for you as if you were taking care of yourself,
00:11:40.620 and were good to yourself,
00:11:42.080 who were treating yourself like someone you loved,
00:11:44.540 that it was good for you in a way
00:11:45.720 that would also be good for your family.
00:11:47.920 And then it would be good for you and your family
00:11:50.100 in a way that was also good for society.
00:11:52.460 And then it would be good for you and your family and society
00:11:56.720 in a way that would be good for the world.
00:11:59.120 And then it would be good now,
00:12:00.840 and it would be good next week and the week after,
00:12:03.100 and a year from now,
00:12:04.320 and as long into the future as you can see.
00:12:06.180 So the good is something that's equilibrated
00:12:08.460 across multiple levels of being
00:12:10.620 and multiple time frames simultaneously.
00:12:12.580 And it isn't necessarily that you know
00:12:14.280 what that is going to be at any given moment,
00:12:16.540 but you can orient yourself
00:12:17.740 so that's the state that you want to exist in.
00:12:20.120 And I can tell you, as far as I can tell,
00:12:22.900 when you exist in that state,
00:12:25.240 even moment by moment,
00:12:27.400 your life is imbued with a sense of meaning,
00:12:29.340 and that sense of meaning can help you transcend suffering.
00:12:32.500 The philosopher Nietzsche said,
00:12:34.520 he who has a why can bear any how.
00:12:37.920 He who has a why can bear any how.
00:12:40.920 And so Nietzsche's idea was that
00:12:42.460 if there was purpose in your life of sufficient grandeur,
00:12:45.940 that not only could the suffering in life be accepted,
00:12:49.740 but maybe it could even be appreciated.
00:12:52.500 Like, it could be that
00:12:53.780 you're willing to bear the burden of being
00:12:56.040 because of the exciting things that you can do with being,
00:12:59.620 the things you can build
00:13:00.620 and the things that you can bring about.
00:13:02.520 And that might be the highest imaginable state of being.
00:13:04.880 And that's a form of paradise.
00:13:06.900 But it's not a paradise that you attain by transforming others.
00:13:09.780 It's a paradise that you attain by transforming yourself.
00:13:13.560 And that's a very difficult thing to do.
00:13:15.260 And it's a very frightening thing to do
00:13:16.600 because it means that you're retooling your soul.
00:13:20.080 And that's a job for a real, 0.82
00:13:22.840 that's the job for a forthright and honorable person.
00:13:26.060 And it's an exciting enough task
00:13:27.660 so that it will keep you occupied for the rest of your life.
00:13:29.660 And then magical things will happen to you
00:13:31.340 while you're doing it.
00:13:33.120 And the world will arrange itself around you
00:13:35.000 in the most wonderful way,
00:13:36.140 in a musical way,
00:13:37.320 so that every part of what you're experiencing
00:13:39.320 plays off against every other part
00:13:42.280 in a manner that has meaning
00:13:44.320 embedded in every aspect of it.
00:13:46.520 And you experience that, by the way.
00:13:47.900 You experience that when you listen to a piece of music
00:13:49.680 that you love.
00:13:50.380 Music represents that.
00:13:51.740 And that's why people,
00:13:52.760 that's why music nourishes the soul,
00:13:54.740 why it's the highest form of art,
00:13:56.540 at least in my opinion.
00:13:57.420 So you have to live your life
00:13:59.080 as if being is a symphony
00:14:01.340 and you're playing your instrumental part.
00:14:27.420 Once you orient yourself,
00:14:30.080 then you have an obligation,
00:14:31.660 I would say an obligation
00:14:32.540 to the development of your soul
00:14:33.800 to speak the truth.
00:14:35.000 You have to be oriented properly though
00:14:36.660 because the truth is something
00:14:38.280 that exists in service to an ideal,
00:14:40.400 an ideal of sorts.
00:14:41.540 Then you can imagine
00:14:42.320 that you could use your language two ways.
00:14:43.920 You can use your language
00:14:44.680 to manipulate the world
00:14:45.800 and to extract from it what you want.
00:14:48.700 So for example,
00:14:49.460 maybe you go out on a date with someone
00:14:51.120 and you decide that the end goal of the date
00:14:53.000 is to have a sexual partner for the night
00:14:55.320 and then you can craft your language 0.51
00:14:56.700 to manipulate the person
00:14:58.240 into providing you with what you want.
00:15:00.920 And that's like an instrumental use of language.
00:15:03.440 But the problem with that,
00:15:05.260 there's many problems with that,
00:15:06.260 but one of them is
00:15:06.980 is that what if your idea
00:15:08.140 about what you should want is wrong?
00:15:09.780 Like maybe that's not the way
00:15:10.760 to treat someone
00:15:11.380 that you're out on a date with.
00:15:13.740 Maybe you're minimizing
00:15:16.360 and reducing the interactions between you
00:15:19.060 from what could be a healthy
00:15:22.540 and elevated state of interaction
00:15:25.400 and discourse to something
00:15:26.500 that's basically the pursuit
00:15:28.760 of impulsive pleasure.
00:15:30.280 And maybe that's not good for you
00:15:32.460 next week and the week after
00:15:34.180 and a month down the road.
00:15:35.340 Maybe orienting yourself
00:15:36.620 towards impulsive pleasure
00:15:37.660 is a very bad idea.
00:15:39.040 Remember what happens in Pinocchio.
00:15:41.000 Pinocchio goes to Pleasure Island
00:15:42.460 and Pleasure Island is a place
00:15:43.740 where impulsive pleasures can be had
00:15:45.380 at a moment's notice.
00:15:47.460 But what Pinocchio discovers
00:15:48.920 along with Jiminy Cricket
00:15:50.120 that Pleasure Island is run by
00:15:51.620 masked totalitarians. 0.92
00:15:55.180 They're all dressed in black,
00:15:56.340 you remember,
00:15:56.940 and they're turning the children
00:15:58.840 and adolescents who are on Pleasure Island,
00:16:01.640 they're depriving them of their voice, 0.99
00:16:03.280 turning them into braying jackasses 1.00
00:16:04.780 and preparing to sell them 1.00
00:16:05.980 as slaves to the salt mines.
00:16:07.340 And so there's an implication
00:16:08.680 in that story that
00:16:09.800 the pursuit of impulsive pleasure
00:16:11.800 is one route to
00:16:13.640 totalitarianism and slavery
00:16:15.120 and I believe that.
00:16:16.440 So perhaps orienting your language
00:16:18.640 towards the gathering
00:16:19.800 of impulsive pleasure
00:16:20.720 is a misuse of your highest gift,
00:16:24.720 the gift of logos,
00:16:25.960 the gift of communication.
00:16:27.600 The alternative is to orient yourself
00:16:29.420 towards the highest good
00:16:30.460 as we already described
00:16:31.400 and then speak the truth.
00:16:32.640 And you can tell when you're doing that
00:16:34.420 because,
00:16:35.120 or you can tell when you're not doing that
00:16:36.440 because if you're not telling the truth,
00:16:38.360 if you're using someone else's words,
00:16:39.720 you're being manipulated
00:16:41.380 in a sense by forces
00:16:42.800 that are behind the scenes,
00:16:44.320 you're not using your own words.
00:16:46.200 You're the puppet
00:16:47.300 of an ideology
00:16:48.520 or another thinker
00:16:49.640 or your own impulsive desires.
00:16:51.980 And you can tell
00:16:52.580 when you're speaking like that
00:16:53.600 because it makes you feel weak.
00:16:54.860 It makes you feel weak and ashamed
00:16:56.120 and you can localize that feeling physiologically.
00:16:58.940 If you listen to yourself talk,
00:17:01.080 you can tell when,
00:17:02.780 when you're speaking properly,
00:17:04.920 you will experience a feeling
00:17:06.420 of integration and strength
00:17:07.780 and when you're speaking
00:17:08.740 in a deceitful or manipulative manner,
00:17:11.100 you'll feel that you're starting
00:17:12.100 to come apart at the seams.
00:17:14.140 And what you need to do
00:17:15.140 is practice only saying things
00:17:16.800 that make you feel stronger.
00:17:18.500 And that'll mean to begin with
00:17:19.780 that you'll notice
00:17:20.460 that almost everything you say is a lie.
00:17:22.360 It's either a lie
00:17:23.060 or someone else's words.
00:17:24.460 It's very hard to find your own words,
00:17:26.140 but you don't actually exist
00:17:27.380 until you have your own words.
00:17:29.900 Going online without ExpressVPN
00:17:31.760 is like not paying attention
00:17:33.180 to the safety demonstration on a flight.
00:17:35.360 Most of the time,
00:17:36.100 you'll probably be fine,
00:17:37.440 but what if one day
00:17:38.580 that weird yellow mask
00:17:39.800 drops down from overhead
00:17:40.820 and you have no idea what to do?
00:17:43.120 In our hyper-connected world,
00:17:44.600 your digital privacy
00:17:45.540 isn't just a luxury.
00:17:46.940 It's a fundamental right.
00:17:48.240 Every time you connect
00:17:49.020 to an unsecured network
00:17:50.200 in a cafe, hotel, or airport,
00:17:52.180 you're essentially broadcasting
00:17:53.720 your personal information
00:17:54.780 to anyone with a technical know-how
00:17:56.640 to intercept it.
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00:20:14.200 So, okay, so then
00:20:18.840 you try to teach yourself
00:20:20.480 how to speak your own truth
00:20:21.820 and you listen to other people
00:20:23.020 while you're doing that
00:20:23.840 because they can help you
00:20:24.940 shape and correct your words.
00:20:27.940 They'll react to them badly
00:20:29.100 if you formulate your ideas badly
00:20:30.660 and if you listen
00:20:31.320 and pay attention
00:20:31.860 then you can learn
00:20:32.500 to formulate your words
00:20:33.520 more and more clearly
00:20:34.740 and accurately
00:20:35.420 and that makes you
00:20:36.140 more and more powerful.
00:20:37.660 It makes you,
00:20:38.440 it gives you more
00:20:39.260 and more authority
00:20:39.980 which is the beneficial
00:20:41.660 form of power.
00:20:42.640 Okay, so you do that
00:20:44.160 and then you have to make
00:20:45.580 a decision of faith
00:20:46.600 and that's basically
00:20:47.400 well, you can either
00:20:48.360 use your language
00:20:49.440 to manipulate the world
00:20:50.580 and make it do what you want
00:20:52.220 or you can use your language
00:20:54.720 to try to articulate the truth
00:20:56.280 as carefully
00:20:56.860 as you possibly can
00:20:58.020 and then you can see
00:21:00.140 what happens.
00:21:00.740 You have to let go
00:21:01.840 of your desire
00:21:03.220 for the consequences
00:21:04.760 that you want.
00:21:05.540 You have to assume
00:21:06.360 that if you speak the truth
00:21:07.780 the results are the best
00:21:09.480 that is possible
00:21:10.180 under the circumstances
00:21:11.240 and so it's an exciting way
00:21:13.800 of living in some sense.
00:21:15.540 It's like continually
00:21:16.220 walking off a cliff
00:21:17.200 because you don't know
00:21:17.880 what's going to happen next
00:21:18.860 if all you do
00:21:20.120 is say what you think.
00:21:21.960 You know, and maybe
00:21:22.400 you're at work
00:21:22.920 and you say what you think
00:21:23.700 and you get fired
00:21:24.340 and you think
00:21:24.700 oh my god
00:21:25.140 that's a terrible catastrophe
00:21:26.240 but maybe it's not
00:21:27.480 because maybe
00:21:28.080 if you're working somewhere
00:21:29.280 and you have to lie
00:21:30.740 to maintain your job
00:21:32.100 maybe you shouldn't be there.
00:21:33.180 Maybe it's deadening your soul
00:21:34.660 and damaging you
00:21:35.640 in some permanent manner
00:21:37.120 and making you corrupt
00:21:38.140 and so you have to
00:21:40.340 orient yourself
00:21:41.180 you have to speak the truth
00:21:42.280 as carefully as you can.
00:21:43.380 You have to listen to others
00:21:44.220 so that you correct your speech
00:21:45.740 and then you have to
00:21:47.500 allow the consequences
00:21:49.000 that ensue
00:21:49.800 to unfold as they will.
00:21:51.780 That's the ultimate act of faith
00:21:53.020 I would say.
00:21:53.700 And that's what you do
00:21:54.360 if you belong to Truth University.
00:21:56.680 Alright, so more practically speaking
00:21:58.220 then you should educate yourself
00:22:00.340 and it's not that easy to do now
00:22:02.540 because you have to find people
00:22:04.320 who can actually tell you
00:22:05.380 mostly what to read
00:22:06.420 and maybe also how to write
00:22:07.740 because writing is a way
00:22:08.820 of formulating your thoughts
00:22:10.360 ever more precisely.
00:22:11.340 That's why you go to university
00:22:12.340 to learn how to write.
00:22:13.680 If you know how to write
00:22:14.800 you can think
00:22:15.700 if you can think and speak
00:22:17.580 and communicate in writing
00:22:18.640 you're unbelievably powerful
00:22:22.060 in the authority manner.
00:22:23.700 because arguments move the world forward
00:22:26.860 and if your arguments
00:22:27.920 are tight and well constructed
00:22:29.460 and lucid and well edited
00:22:31.660 and carefully thought through
00:22:33.000 and you have five rationales
00:22:34.440 for everything that you're doing
00:22:35.520 which is what happens
00:22:36.660 if you learn to write properly
00:22:37.700 then you're like a force of nature, man.
00:22:39.800 No one can take you down.
00:22:41.460 And that's one of the things
00:22:42.460 that people aren't taught about
00:22:43.520 why you go get educated
00:22:44.560 especially in the humanities.
00:22:46.640 Humanities education,
00:22:47.740 if it's real,
00:22:48.300 organizes your psyche,
00:22:50.760 grounds you,
00:22:51.940 puts you on a rock
00:22:53.400 and makes you a force
00:22:54.540 to contend with.
00:22:55.640 But you have to read
00:22:56.420 the right people
00:22:57.140 and so
00:22:57.960 and those are the great
00:22:59.200 they're the great people
00:23:00.400 of the past.
00:23:01.160 In my list
00:23:01.840 they're the great men
00:23:03.020 of the past
00:23:03.580 and that's just how it is.
00:23:05.280 And so
00:23:05.620 here's who I would recommend.
00:23:06.980 I put reading lists up
00:23:08.040 at jordanbpeterson.com
00:23:09.600 there's two of them
00:23:10.340 and the people
00:23:11.640 that I recommend
00:23:12.440 primarily are
00:23:13.960 they're books written
00:23:14.680 by the following list of people
00:23:15.980 Fyodor Dostoevsky
00:23:17.480 and Leo Tolstoy
00:23:18.520 who I think
00:23:19.180 perhaps the greatest novelist
00:23:20.380 the world has ever seen
00:23:21.400 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
00:23:22.840 another great Russian novelist
00:23:24.440 I don't know what it is
00:23:25.160 about the Russians
00:23:25.800 but man
00:23:26.380 they produce
00:23:27.240 they produce writers
00:23:28.440 that are incomparable.
00:23:30.420 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
00:23:31.420 wrote a book
00:23:31.920 called The Gulag Archipelago
00:23:33.160 where he analyzed
00:23:34.320 the Soviet prison camp system
00:23:36.020 that arose
00:23:36.540 after the Leninist revolution
00:23:38.420 in the second decade
00:23:39.340 of the 20th century
00:23:40.260 and details
00:23:41.460 and absolutely precisely
00:23:43.020 how the tenets of Marxism
00:23:45.600 the Marxist tenets
00:23:47.300 that are supposed to free everyone
00:23:48.620 and change the world
00:23:49.500 produced legislation
00:23:50.940 that was
00:23:51.360 that was absolutely murderous
00:23:53.240 in its consequences
00:23:54.040 and Solzhenitsyn
00:23:55.020 painstakingly
00:23:56.960 traces the logical pathway
00:23:59.000 from the original Marxist principles
00:24:00.680 to the legislation
00:24:01.680 to the genocides
00:24:03.780 because you'll hear people
00:24:05.240 who are basically Marxists
00:24:06.360 say things like
00:24:07.120 well
00:24:07.380 true Marxism never existed
00:24:09.140 and Solzhenitsyn took
00:24:10.340 that argument apart
00:24:11.840 in the mid-70s
00:24:13.440 and the Gulag Archipelago
00:24:15.300 was an intellectual bomb
00:24:16.700 it demolished any credibility
00:24:19.940 that Marxism had
00:24:20.980 to intellectual respectability
00:24:22.240 you have to read the book
00:24:23.540 the book is about
00:24:24.900 the central issue
00:24:26.000 in our culture
00:24:26.620 at the moment
00:24:27.120 if you don't read it
00:24:27.940 you're not informed
00:24:28.760 you can't participate
00:24:30.020 in the debate
00:24:30.480 except as a puppet
00:24:31.340 and so I wouldn't recommend
00:24:33.220 participating in this debate
00:24:34.800 as a puppet
00:24:35.320 because you don't know
00:24:36.160 who's behind the scenes
00:24:37.080 pulling the strings
00:24:38.140 if you remember
00:24:38.900 the Pinocchio story
00:24:39.800 the forces that were
00:24:41.140 pulling the strings
00:24:41.760 were not
00:24:42.260 they were not forces
00:24:44.280 that were acting
00:24:44.900 in Pinocchio's best interest
00:24:46.140 that's for sure
00:24:46.860 George Orwell
00:24:48.140 English essayist
00:24:49.340 incomparable commentator
00:24:50.760 on socialist totalitarianism
00:24:52.780 even though he was
00:24:53.520 a left winger
00:24:54.100 and a brilliant one
00:24:54.940 Aldous Huxley
00:24:55.860 who wrote Brave New World
00:24:56.900 had some very brilliant
00:24:58.420 things to say
00:24:59.040 about the potential
00:24:59.820 demolition of sexual choice
00:25:01.400 of choice of sexual partner
00:25:02.620 as a part of
00:25:03.300 a dystopian future
00:25:05.120 Friedrich Nietzsche
00:25:06.180 a philosopher
00:25:07.660 who described himself
00:25:09.120 as someone who
00:25:11.380 thought with a hammer
00:25:12.640 and Nietzsche is a very
00:25:14.160 very dangerous person
00:25:15.180 and an absolutely
00:25:15.900 brilliant writer
00:25:16.620 and Carl Jung
00:25:17.440 who was a student of Nietzsche
00:25:19.940 and who
00:25:20.400 Nietzsche was the philosopher
00:25:21.940 who announced the death of God
00:25:23.420 back in the late 1800s
00:25:24.740 and Jung spent his whole life
00:25:26.100 attempting to
00:25:27.440 revivify God
00:25:28.920 that's one way of
00:25:29.720 thinking about it
00:25:30.360 and so if you
00:25:31.540 educate yourself
00:25:32.960 and this is a really
00:25:33.560 good place to start
00:25:34.320 if you read these authors
00:25:35.280 then you'll know
00:25:35.860 what else to read
00:25:36.640 if you read these authors
00:25:37.460 it'll take you a good
00:25:38.680 long time
00:25:39.180 and it will be very
00:25:39.840 very hard on you
00:25:40.580 and you won't be
00:25:42.100 the same person
00:25:42.740 when you come out
00:25:43.360 and that's very frightening
00:25:44.400 and because being
00:25:46.040 torn down and rebuilt
00:25:47.640 is no joke
00:25:49.100 but it beats the hell
00:25:49.960 out of the alternative
00:25:50.680 which is just to
00:25:51.520 stagnate
00:25:52.480 and stay a stagnant infant
00:25:54.180 which is
00:25:55.160 which is not something
00:25:56.320 I recommend
00:25:57.060 there's nothing uglier
00:25:57.980 than a stagnant
00:25:59.500 40 year old infant
00:26:01.000 so that's equivalent
00:26:03.200 just so you know
00:26:03.920 to Pinocchio
00:26:04.580 back to the Pinocchio story
00:26:05.700 rescuing Geppetto
00:26:06.800 from the underworld
00:26:07.420 remember when he was
00:26:08.440 he had kind of turned 0.98
00:26:09.520 into a half jackass 0.99
00:26:10.700 after being at 0.98
00:26:11.620 Pleasure Island
00:26:12.980 where he was enticed
00:26:14.020 by the way
00:26:14.540 from a couple of people
00:26:15.600 who
00:26:15.840 that was the fox
00:26:16.740 and the cat
00:26:17.500 who attempted to
00:26:18.780 entice himself
00:26:19.720 into believing
00:26:20.320 that he was a victim
00:26:21.180 and needed a vacation
00:26:22.160 so Pinocchio
00:26:23.500 was enticed
00:26:24.040 onto Pleasure Island
00:26:24.860 by two figures
00:26:26.720 that played on
00:26:27.740 his sense of
00:26:28.800 victimization
00:26:29.520 and neurosis
00:26:30.200 and suffering
00:26:30.780 to convince him
00:26:31.500 that he didn't have to
00:26:32.440 take any responsibility
00:26:34.100 for his own existence
00:26:35.060 and he could just
00:26:35.800 busy himself
00:26:36.760 with impulsive pleasures
00:26:37.800 right
00:26:38.160 that's how he fell
00:26:39.220 into the hands
00:26:39.760 of the totalitarians
00:26:40.760 on Pleasure Island
00:26:41.580 anyways
00:26:43.700 Pinocchio
00:26:44.320 after he left
00:26:45.640 Pleasure Island
00:26:46.880 had to go into
00:26:47.600 the ocean twice
00:26:48.460 and the second time
00:26:49.480 he went into the ocean
00:26:50.260 he was looking
00:26:50.880 for his father
00:26:51.480 well
00:26:51.720 everyone's father
00:26:53.420 from a mythological
00:26:54.460 perspective
00:26:55.060 is dying
00:26:55.820 in the underworld
00:26:57.100 in the chaos
00:26:57.820 because
00:26:58.200 everyone inhabits
00:27:00.100 a culture
00:27:00.960 that's sick and old 0.76
00:27:02.420 so to speak 0.54
00:27:02.960 and it's sick and old
00:27:03.680 because it was made
00:27:04.400 by the dead
00:27:05.060 and the living
00:27:06.060 have to revivify it
00:27:07.120 continually
00:27:07.540 in order for it
00:27:08.460 to be a dynamic force
00:27:09.560 and the living
00:27:10.340 have to revivify
00:27:11.180 their connection
00:27:11.860 with the culture
00:27:12.440 internally too
00:27:13.200 because your
00:27:13.720 constructions of culture
00:27:14.820 although not only
00:27:15.680 constructions of culture
00:27:16.640 and you have to
00:27:17.460 understand history
00:27:18.300 because otherwise
00:27:19.440 you can't understand
00:27:20.240 yourself
00:27:20.760 you're a historical creature
00:27:21.860 and so you have to
00:27:23.020 rescue your dead father
00:27:24.160 from the belly of the beast
00:27:25.440 from the dragon
00:27:26.240 because remember
00:27:27.220 the whale in Pinocchio
00:27:28.240 is also a fire-breathing dragon
00:27:29.620 and that means
00:27:30.500 you have to face
00:27:31.380 the thing that you most fear
00:27:32.840 and when you do that
00:27:34.540 you'll rescue your father
00:27:35.540 from the underworld
00:27:36.260 these are very complex ideas
00:27:38.680 and you can read about them
00:27:39.740 in my book
00:27:40.180 Maps of Meaning
00:27:40.780 if you want
00:27:41.320 it's on the reading list
00:27:42.300 I put a free copy of it
00:27:43.460 on jordanbpeterson.com
00:27:45.580 so you can download it
00:27:46.580 I take apart these sorts
00:27:47.760 of things in detail
00:27:48.520 so anyways
00:27:49.560 you have to revivify
00:27:50.980 your father
00:27:51.480 before you can become real
00:27:52.900 and that's part of the problem
00:27:54.940 with the feminist
00:27:56.740 and social justice warrior
00:27:59.040 insistence on the existence
00:28:00.320 of the patriarchy
00:28:01.200 it's like
00:28:01.520 everyone's known
00:28:02.820 since the beginning of time
00:28:03.960 that culture is corrupt 0.91
00:28:05.000 and tyrannical 0.96
00:28:05.680 but it's also protective
00:28:07.180 and benevolent
00:28:07.980 even the language you use
00:28:09.120 is a product of culture
00:28:10.080 and so
00:28:10.360 you don't overthrow
00:28:11.520 the patriarchy
00:28:12.400 you revivify your culture
00:28:14.440 and you do that
00:28:15.760 by adopting responsibility
00:28:16.900 for your own being
00:28:17.820 and then acting
00:28:18.640 as a moral agent
00:28:19.820 in the culture
00:28:20.620 that's what you do
00:28:21.700 to become educated
00:28:22.760 so read these books
00:28:24.240 read these books
00:28:25.120 they'll change your life
00:28:25.940 I guarantee it
00:28:26.680 they'll change your life
00:28:27.420 they'll take you apart
00:28:28.560 they'll devastate you
00:28:29.900 and then they'll rebuild you
00:28:31.120 into something far greater
00:28:32.160 than you are now
00:28:33.040 you're hurt
00:28:34.220 don't worry
00:28:35.720 Ginny
00:28:37.000 you need to get yourself out
00:28:39.540 follow the chamber
00:28:41.160 and you'll find Ron
00:28:42.520 you were brilliant folks
00:28:57.200 I just wasn't quick enough
00:29:00.380 of course
00:29:23.080 phoenix tears have healing powers
00:29:26.180 thanks
00:29:29.440 it's alright Ginny
00:29:33.440 and that's what to aim for
00:29:36.160 so then
00:29:37.460 and here's something
00:29:38.220 that will help you
00:29:38.980 my colleagues and I
00:29:40.000 have developed
00:29:40.580 a series of
00:29:41.320 online writing programs
00:29:42.480 called the self-authoring suite
00:29:43.800 and they help people
00:29:45.180 write about their past
00:29:46.280 and organize that
00:29:47.160 and their present personality
00:29:48.880 and organize and understand that
00:29:50.420 and then the future
00:29:51.540 and the future authoring program
00:29:53.240 asks you to write about
00:29:55.060 six different dimensions
00:29:56.460 of your life
00:29:57.180 so it asks you
00:29:58.900 first of all
00:29:59.340 treat yourself
00:29:59.980 as if you're someone
00:30:00.780 that you want to help
00:30:01.640 and that someone 0.72
00:30:03.140 that you love
00:30:03.700 and take care of
00:30:04.400 and someone that you want to help
00:30:05.460 and then
00:30:05.840 it asks you
00:30:06.880 well if you could
00:30:07.520 if you could organize your life
00:30:09.080 in the best possible manner
00:30:10.600 and in keeping with those principles
00:30:12.220 we discussed earlier
00:30:13.140 what do you want
00:30:15.260 what do you want
00:30:16.240 for your career
00:30:16.940 like what do you want
00:30:18.640 what would make your life meaningful
00:30:19.880 what do you want
00:30:20.360 for your career
00:30:20.900 what do you want
00:30:21.760 for your family
00:30:22.460 and from your family
00:30:23.380 what do you want
00:30:23.880 for an intimate relationship
00:30:24.980 how are you going to handle
00:30:26.960 How are you going to take care of your mental and physical health?
00:30:29.460 How are you going to handle drug and alcohol use?
00:30:32.080 It asks you a series of fundamental questions like that to get your mind moving.
00:30:36.520 And then it asks you to write for 15 minutes about what your life could be like
00:30:39.900 three to five years in the future if it was laid out like you were laying out a life for
00:30:45.000 someone you deeply cared about.
00:30:46.840 And so you're asked to write for 15 minutes about that without worrying too much about
00:30:50.100 structure, the structure of the argument or any grammatical niceties.
00:30:55.000 That's put off for later.
00:30:56.100 So that gives you a little heaven to aim for, right?
00:30:58.680 It's like, well, if I could have this, my life would be clearly worthwhile, even if I had
00:31:02.360 to put up with a fair bit of suffering along the way.
00:31:04.620 That's what you're trying to construct.
00:31:06.060 And you can think about that as a heaven worth moving towards.
00:31:09.040 And then the second part of the program asks you to write about what your life would be
00:31:13.680 like three to five years down the road if all of your bad habits and nihilistic tendencies
00:31:17.800 and proclivity towards resentment and lack of desire to shoulder responsibility, if all
00:31:23.100 your weak points got the upper hand and just augured you into the ground.
00:31:26.920 And everyone knows that.
00:31:27.900 You know what you'd be like if you just let everything slide and you'd know what particular
00:31:31.880 hell you were ended up heading towards.
00:31:33.700 And so the second part of the program asks you to write about what your life would be
00:31:38.240 like three to five years down the road if everything just went to hell around you.
00:31:41.380 And so that gives you a hell to avoid and a heaven to strive for.
00:31:45.020 And you need both of those because that's what keeps you properly motivated in life.
00:31:48.900 And then the second half of the program, the next part of the program, helps you turn your
00:31:53.640 vision of the desirable future into an implementable reality and to articulate it fully and to
00:31:59.780 articulate the arguments for why you want that.
00:32:02.680 And those even help you overcome your own doubts, right?
00:32:04.900 It's not only to argue against other people.
00:32:06.560 It's to argue against the chattering demons of nihilism and hopelessness and ideological 1.00
00:32:11.720 possession that exist in your mind and in society simultaneously.
00:32:15.480 You need powerful weapons to fight back against those.
00:32:18.720 Published and I'll put that in the description of this video.
00:32:23.380 And so this program really works if you do it.
00:32:25.780 And so I would highly recommend that you do it.
00:32:28.060 Anyways, you can read about the program there.
00:32:30.760 And so here's what millennials should do if they want to change the world. 0.65
00:32:33.640 The first thing they should do is orient themselves to the good.
00:32:37.720 And that's away from evil, away from malevolence, away from the manufacture of pointless suffering
00:32:43.460 and pain, away from Auschwitz, let's say, and away from the Gulag Archipelago and the 0.99
00:32:47.980 terrible Soviet camps and the massive murders that occurred in China.
00:32:51.400 You want to get as far away from that as you possibly can.
00:32:55.280 Whatever direction is away from that is a good direction.
00:32:57.780 And then you also want to contemplate what the highest possible good could look like for
00:33:03.140 you and your family and your society.
00:33:04.780 We already discussed that.
00:33:06.300 And then you need to speak the truth in relationship to that.
00:33:09.400 And then you need to educate yourself.
00:33:11.820 And then you need to shoulder your responsibility.
00:33:15.160 Responsibility is a good thing because it makes you strong.
00:33:17.480 To bear up under it makes you strong.
00:33:19.340 You can turn yourself into a...
00:33:20.700 You can free yourself from your strings and turn yourself into a genuine individual.
00:33:24.640 And then you can shoulder the world.
00:33:27.340 And then you're in a position to make change.
00:33:30.160 As a person like that, your mere being will change the world in a positive direction.
00:33:35.340 And that's what you should be aiming for.
00:33:36.880 So read the books that I put up on my site and do the future authoring program.
00:33:41.340 And that will improve your life dramatically.
00:33:43.620 And that's how you can change the world.
00:33:54.640 I have prepared this letter presumptuously to the world.
00:34:12.420 Or at least to that corner of it with which I can communicate.
00:34:15.900 Here at the dawn of the new year.
00:34:18.500 In these perilous times.
00:34:20.040 Although I usually speak extemporaneously.
00:34:24.620 That takes a level of capacity that I cannot quite currently manifest.
00:34:28.900 So I'm going to read instead.
00:34:31.560 It's also a careful argument, I hope.
00:34:34.240 And it required the editing for which only the written word can suffice.
00:34:40.100 Dear world.
00:34:41.040 On January 16th, I'm going to talk with Sam Harris on his podcast.
00:34:47.520 Waking up with Sam Harris.
00:34:49.840 Dr. Harris is one of the so-called new atheists.
00:34:53.360 Of which there are four.
00:34:55.800 Like the other three.
00:34:57.700 Christopher Hitchens.
00:34:59.400 Dan Dennett.
00:35:00.360 And Richard Dawkins.
00:35:01.660 Who, by the way, I always wanted particularly to debate.
00:35:05.640 Dr. Harris is a smart guy.
00:35:07.260 And I'm certainly not complaining that I will encounter him instead of Dawkins.
00:35:13.300 So I'm preparing my arguments carefully.
00:35:15.940 Although I have been doing so for years.
00:35:18.280 The specific ideas I'm going to share with you today.
00:35:21.340 Were obsessing me from the moment I woke up.
00:35:24.780 Somewhat fitfully this morning.
00:35:27.780 So I dictated them to my son.
00:35:30.200 And then edited them.
00:35:31.820 With his help.
00:35:32.840 The central problem of human beings isn't religion.
00:35:38.800 As the new atheists insist. 0.99
00:35:41.880 It's tribalism.
00:35:44.400 We know this in part because chimps.
00:35:47.000 Our closest biological kin.
00:35:49.520 Go to war. 0.80
00:35:51.060 And they're not religious.
00:35:52.900 Although they are tribal.
00:35:54.840 Tribalism also has a central problem.
00:35:57.540 And it's not competition.
00:35:58.720 Despite the tendency of competition to produce, at least temporarily, winners and losers.
00:36:07.340 The problem of tribalism is cooperation.
00:36:10.980 Because cooperation is what allows us to exist as bounded groups.
00:36:14.660 A group, by definition, is a collective.
00:36:17.620 Cooperatively aiming at something.
00:36:19.380 It can't be aimed at nothing.
00:36:21.140 Because nothing cannot unite.
00:36:23.720 It only divides.
00:36:24.980 Thus, attacks on collective purpose, because of its tendency to produce tribalism, merely divide.
00:36:34.960 The politics of identity, which emerge when the central purpose is criticized too destructively,
00:36:40.780 inevitably produce the situation described in the story of the Tower of Babel.
00:36:45.760 Everyone fragments into primitive tribes.
00:36:48.040 And speaks their own, mutually incomprehensible language.
00:36:54.400 One alternative to fragmentation is, of course, union under a banner.
00:36:59.680 A collective ideal, cause, or purpose.
00:37:03.180 The problem with uniting under a banner, as the postmodernists who push identity politics rightly point out,
00:37:09.160 is that to value something means, simultaneously, to devalue other things.
00:37:16.420 Thus, to value is an exclusionary process.
00:37:19.160 But the alternative is valuelessness, which is equivalent to nihilism.
00:37:28.640 And nihilism does not produce freedom from exclusion.
00:37:32.300 It just makes everyone excluded.
00:37:34.840 And that's an intolerable state, directionless, uncertain, chaotic, and angst-ridden.
00:37:40.340 When such uncertainty reaches a critical level, the counter-response appears.
00:37:48.120 First, the unconscious, and then the collectively expressed demand for a leader,
00:37:53.240 possessed by the spirit of totalitarian certainty,
00:37:56.220 who promises, above all, to restore order.
00:38:01.160 Thus, a society without a unifying principle oscillates, unmoored,
00:38:05.640 between nihilism and totalitarianism.
00:38:07.700 Human beings have been wrestling with this problem since the beginning of civilization,
00:38:13.320 when our capacity to form large groups, for all its advantages,
00:38:16.660 also started to pose a new threat.
00:38:19.220 That of the hyper-domination of the state, collective, or purpose.
00:38:24.220 But without the state, there's just fragmentation into smaller groups.
00:38:28.600 The group itself cannot be done away with,
00:38:31.160 because for better or worse, human beings are social animals,
00:38:34.740 not loners, like sharks or tigers.
00:38:37.700 We're team players.
00:38:39.700 But being on one team means not being on others.
00:38:42.980 This means that any given team sidelines, marginalizes,
00:38:46.620 and alienates those who cannot play their game,
00:38:49.000 as well as conflicting with other teams.
00:38:51.900 In the West, starting in the Middle East thousands of years ago, 0.91
00:38:55.700 a new idea began to emerge.
00:38:58.120 Evolve is not too strong a word.
00:38:59.720 In the collective imagination.
00:39:01.720 You might, following Dawkins, consider this a meme,
00:39:05.600 although this is far too weak a word.
00:39:08.760 This idea, whose development can be traced back through Egypt to Mesopotamia,
00:39:14.000 before disappearing into unwritten history,
00:39:16.500 is that of the divine individual.
00:39:19.120 This eons-old work of the imagination is a dramatic presentation of an emergent idea,
00:39:28.900 which is the solution to how to organize social being
00:39:31.880 without falling prey to nihilistic divisiveness or deceitful totalitarian certainty.
00:39:37.540 The group must unite, but under the banner of the individual.
00:39:44.600 The individual is the source of the new wisdom
00:39:47.240 that updates the antiquated nihilistic or totalitarian detritus and glory of the past.
00:39:56.360 For better or for worse,
00:39:59.280 that idea reaches its apogee in Christianity.
00:40:02.700 The divine individual is masculine 1.00
00:40:06.540 because the feminine is not individual.
00:40:10.800 The divine feminine is, instead, mother and child. 0.93
00:40:15.580 However, it is a hallmark of Christian supposition
00:40:18.680 that the redemption of both men and women comes through the masculine.
00:40:23.620 And that's because the masculine is the individual.
00:40:25.660 The central realization
00:40:29.620 expressed dramatically and symbolically
00:40:33.140 is that the subordination of the group
00:40:35.540 to the ideal of the divine individual
00:40:37.680 is the answer to the paradox of nihilism and totalitarianism.
00:40:43.980 The divine individual
00:40:45.540 is the man that every man admires
00:40:48.480 and the man whom all women want their men to be.
00:40:52.440 The divine individual
00:40:55.440 is the ideal from which deviations
00:40:58.100 are punished by the group
00:40:59.320 with contempt and disgrace
00:41:00.600 and fidelity to which
00:41:02.680 is rewarded by the group
00:41:04.120 with attention and honor.
00:41:06.900 The divine individual
00:41:08.140 is not the winner of any individual game,
00:41:10.360 but the player who plays fairly
00:41:12.820 and is therefore continually invited to play.
00:41:16.160 The divine individual
00:41:17.160 is the builder,
00:41:18.400 maintainer,
00:41:19.180 and expander of the state.
00:41:20.680 He who boldly goes
00:41:22.660 where no man has gone before
00:41:24.240 and someone who eternally watches
00:41:26.520 over the widows and the children. 0.89
00:41:29.900 His power of direct and honest communication
00:41:32.460 is that which identifies,
00:41:34.520 discusses,
00:41:35.320 and then resolves
00:41:36.440 the continually emergent problems
00:41:38.540 of human existence.
00:41:40.520 It is for this reason
00:41:42.000 that he is regarded
00:41:43.040 as the savior of the world.
00:41:45.040 The primary image for women
00:41:50.120 is not the divine individual
00:41:52.140 because of the heavy burden
00:41:53.820 they bear for reproduction.
00:41:55.480 It is instead
00:41:56.360 the divine mother and child.
00:41:59.080 This is not to say
00:42:00.220 that man
00:42:01.040 is the divine individual
00:42:02.760 and woman is not, 1.00
00:42:04.540 although such confusion
00:42:05.500 is understandable
00:42:06.320 given the complexity
00:42:07.340 of the problem.
00:42:09.380 Men,
00:42:10.320 like women, 0.98
00:42:11.400 have the divine mother and child
00:42:12.780 as an element
00:42:13.440 of their personality.
00:42:15.340 In men,
00:42:15.920 however,
00:42:16.200 it's in the background,
00:42:17.580 so to speak.
00:42:20.120 As the divine individual
00:42:21.480 is in the background
00:42:22.260 of the psyche for women,
00:42:24.860 men,
00:42:25.360 by necessity,
00:42:26.200 play a less primary role
00:42:27.520 in the care of children.
00:42:29.760 This frees them
00:42:30.760 to act as individuals
00:42:32.360 in a manner
00:42:33.140 that up to now
00:42:33.840 has been nearly impossible
00:42:35.000 for women.
00:42:38.200 Identification
00:42:38.760 with these images
00:42:39.620 is belief in them.
00:42:41.520 Belief is not 0.99
00:42:42.420 the statement
00:42:43.240 of agreement
00:42:43.980 with a set of facts,
00:42:45.680 but the willingness
00:42:46.420 to act something out,
00:42:48.080 to become something,
00:42:49.540 to stake your life
00:42:50.600 on something.
00:42:52.880 For men and women alike,
00:42:55.020 this means voluntary adoption
00:42:56.780 of responsibility.
00:43:00.880 Responsibility
00:43:01.480 for oneself,
00:43:03.280 family,
00:43:04.500 and state.
00:43:05.700 it's in that responsibility
00:43:09.100 and not in rights
00:43:10.720 that meaning itself resides,
00:43:15.200 the meaning
00:43:15.680 that makes life bearable.
00:43:19.600 Societies
00:43:20.200 that refuse to honor
00:43:21.280 both of these elements
00:43:22.240 therefore doom
00:43:23.000 their inhabitants
00:43:23.680 to purposelessness,
00:43:25.640 unhappiness,
00:43:27.340 sterility,
00:43:28.920 and the aforementioned
00:43:30.560 dangers of nihilistic
00:43:31.820 divisiveness,
00:43:32.500 and deceitful,
00:43:34.860 oppressive,
00:43:35.620 totalitarian certainty.
00:43:39.000 The meaning
00:43:39.920 in responsibility
00:43:40.740 is the necessary
00:43:42.200 meaning in life,
00:43:43.520 which can serve
00:43:45.640 as a counterbalance
00:43:46.500 to its terrible
00:43:47.340 fragility
00:43:48.040 and tenuousness.
00:43:50.000 People must unite
00:43:51.360 under the banner,
00:43:53.360 not of their group
00:43:54.260 and not of nothingness,
00:43:55.940 but of the individual.
00:43:59.780 This is a brilliant
00:44:00.860 and intrinsically
00:44:01.800 paradoxical solution
00:44:03.180 to the problems
00:44:04.760 of nihilistic nothingness
00:44:06.300 and two-rigid group
00:44:08.360 identity
00:44:09.000 alike.
00:44:13.480 It's the consciousness
00:44:14.980 of the individual
00:44:16.000 which transforms
00:44:17.720 the chaos of potential
00:44:19.120 into habitable cosmos
00:44:20.760 as the greatest
00:44:22.900 origin stories
00:44:23.860 repeatedly insist.
00:44:24.960 It is that same
00:44:27.740 consciousness
00:44:28.340 which stands up
00:44:29.640 rebellious
00:44:30.600 and revelatory
00:44:31.880 to break down
00:44:33.780 the pathological
00:44:34.700 and too-rigid order
00:44:36.020 of that cosmos
00:44:37.200 when it has become
00:44:38.580 old,
00:44:39.660 infirm,
00:44:40.800 willfully blind, 1.00
00:44:41.860 and corrupt.
00:44:44.460 It is that consciousness
00:44:46.040 which is the image
00:44:46.920 of God.
00:44:48.480 It dwells within
00:44:49.700 every embodied
00:44:50.460 human form.
00:44:51.280 the fact
00:44:53.660 of its existence
00:44:54.400 is the reason
00:44:55.720 that the law
00:44:56.360 of the land
00:44:56.980 itself
00:44:57.580 must be bound
00:44:58.840 by ultimate
00:44:59.460 respect
00:45:00.060 for the individual
00:45:01.000 regardless
00:45:02.240 of his or her
00:45:03.060 sins and crimes.
00:45:06.220 It is that
00:45:07.220 consciousness,
00:45:08.320 not the objective
00:45:09.500 material substrate
00:45:10.580 of being
00:45:11.260 which should be
00:45:12.180 regarded as
00:45:12.760 the ultimate reality.
00:45:14.000 There is no
00:45:14.540 self-evident reason
00:45:15.720 why dead matter
00:45:16.760 should be given
00:45:17.740 ontological primacy
00:45:19.280 over living spirit.
00:45:21.280 although doing so
00:45:23.860 has produced
00:45:24.360 a massive increase
00:45:25.500 in human
00:45:25.960 technological power.
00:45:27.740 It has left
00:45:28.740 that power
00:45:29.300 in the hands
00:45:29.960 of an increasingly
00:45:30.780 disenchanted populace
00:45:32.420 and that presents
00:45:34.600 a mortal danger.
00:45:37.600 Such power
00:45:38.620 must be wielded
00:45:39.640 by those
00:45:40.120 who have truly
00:45:40.780 and voluntarily
00:45:41.660 accepted
00:45:42.400 the responsibility
00:45:43.300 of being
00:45:44.100 lest it prove
00:45:45.920 fatal.
00:45:46.440 the West
00:45:50.960 has long
00:45:51.520 been the
00:45:52.080 civilized
00:45:52.640 embodiment
00:45:53.220 of the idea
00:45:53.940 of the divine
00:45:54.640 individual
00:45:55.260 who does
00:45:56.840 exactly that.
00:45:58.680 That's what
00:45:59.380 the voluntary
00:45:59.920 lifting of
00:46:00.700 the cross
00:46:01.240 of suffering
00:46:02.060 symbolically
00:46:02.780 represents.
00:46:05.860 For all
00:46:06.760 its faults
00:46:07.380 which are
00:46:07.880 manifold
00:46:08.420 the West
00:46:09.840 has therefore
00:46:10.360 served as a
00:46:11.200 shining beacon
00:46:11.920 of hope
00:46:12.460 to those
00:46:16.020 destined to
00:46:16.780 inhabit places
00:46:17.820 too chaotic
00:46:19.280 or too rigid
00:46:20.540 for the human
00:46:21.640 spirit to
00:46:22.340 tolerate.
00:46:23.720 But the West
00:46:24.600 is in grave
00:46:25.180 danger of
00:46:25.720 losing its way.
00:46:26.500 the negative
00:46:27.300 consequences
00:46:28.020 of this
00:46:28.460 can hardly
00:46:28.960 be overstated.
00:46:31.020 A close
00:46:31.840 reading of
00:46:32.400 20th century
00:46:33.160 history indicates
00:46:34.180 as nothing
00:46:34.720 else can
00:46:35.420 the horrors
00:46:37.180 that accompany
00:46:37.900 loss of
00:46:41.440 faith in
00:46:41.920 the idea
00:46:42.480 of the
00:46:44.920 individual.
00:46:47.640 It is only
00:46:48.780 the individual
00:46:49.460 after all
00:46:50.340 who suffers.
00:46:53.360 The group
00:46:54.440 does not
00:46:55.580 suffer
00:46:56.020 only those
00:47:10.180 who compose
00:47:10.780 it.
00:47:14.080 Thus the
00:47:14.880 reality of
00:47:15.560 the individual
00:47:16.200 must be
00:47:17.560 regarded as
00:47:18.220 primary.
00:47:20.480 If
00:47:20.760 suffering
00:47:21.240 is to be
00:47:23.040 regarded
00:47:23.420 seriously
00:47:24.140 without
00:47:29.460 such
00:47:29.880 regard
00:47:30.360 there can
00:47:31.960 be no
00:47:32.300 motivation
00:47:32.880 to reduce
00:47:33.480 suffering
00:47:33.940 and therefore
00:47:34.500 no
00:47:34.800 respite
00:47:35.420 instead
00:47:37.420 the production
00:47:38.180 of individual
00:47:38.900 suffering
00:47:39.480 can
00:47:40.220 and has
00:47:41.500 and will
00:47:45.680 be again
00:47:46.240 rationalized
00:47:47.200 and justified
00:47:47.900 for its
00:47:49.900 supposed
00:47:50.400 benefits
00:47:51.220 for the
00:47:52.520 future
00:47:53.060 and the
00:47:55.480 group.
00:47:55.840 But
00:47:55.900 effective
00:47:56.740 birth control
00:48:06.540 has emerged
00:48:07.080 as one of the
00:48:07.640 consequences of
00:48:08.540 our powerful
00:48:09.120 technological
00:48:09.840 materialism.
00:48:10.660 this has been
00:48:12.940 accompanied by
00:48:13.640 the rise of
00:48:14.240 states
00:48:14.620 sufficiently
00:48:15.220 civilized
00:48:15.920 so that
00:48:16.680 women who 0.99
00:48:17.180 inhabit them
00:48:17.880 can walk
00:48:18.660 the streets
00:48:19.320 unaccompanied
00:48:20.200 in safety.
00:48:21.820 We do not
00:48:22.380 yet know how
00:48:23.160 to balance
00:48:23.620 the opportunities
00:48:24.400 thus provided
00:48:25.280 for expanded
00:48:26.140 female individuality 0.67
00:48:27.520 with the
00:48:28.200 eternal necessity
00:48:29.100 for a woman
00:48:29.780 to serve
00:48:30.340 as the
00:48:30.740 mother
00:48:30.980 of the
00:48:31.640 divine
00:48:32.020 individual.
00:48:33.300 Dividing our
00:48:33.900 civilization
00:48:34.420 into polarized
00:48:35.360 ideological
00:48:36.120 camps of
00:48:36.980 female group 0.99
00:48:37.820 identity
00:48:38.320 and male
00:48:38.820 group
00:48:39.100 identity
00:48:39.560 is certainly
00:48:40.480 not the
00:48:40.960 answer.
00:48:42.820 We have to
00:48:43.700 be honest
00:48:44.240 male and
00:48:44.920 female alike 0.57
00:48:45.700 about what
00:48:46.440 we really
00:48:46.840 want as
00:48:47.380 individuals
00:48:47.980 and talk
00:48:49.620 it out.
00:48:50.560 We know
00:48:50.800 beyond dispute
00:48:51.620 that societies
00:48:52.400 who emancipate
00:48:53.400 their women 0.63
00:48:53.840 are more
00:48:54.220 productive and
00:48:54.860 peaceful
00:48:55.200 and that
00:48:55.800 the relationship
00:48:56.360 is causal.
00:48:59.320 Thus
00:48:59.860 it's not a
00:49:00.440 matter of
00:49:00.840 if but
00:49:01.400 how.
00:49:03.960 But such
00:49:04.740 emancipation
00:49:06.300 places a
00:49:06.920 dual burden
00:49:07.600 on the
00:49:08.560 now more
00:49:09.040 autonomous
00:49:09.440 woman 0.99
00:49:09.940 who is
00:49:10.900 required to
00:49:11.540 balance
00:49:11.860 manifesting
00:49:12.620 the potential
00:49:13.220 of her
00:49:13.580 individual
00:49:13.980 spirit
00:49:14.480 with the
00:49:16.000 necessity
00:49:16.460 of desire
00:49:17.260 to bear
00:49:17.800 and rear
00:49:18.320 the next
00:49:18.720 generation
00:49:19.260 of mankind.
00:49:21.260 To live
00:49:22.080 with free
00:49:22.560 women 1.00
00:49:22.880 and gain
00:49:24.380 the advantages
00:49:25.040 of their
00:49:25.440 freedom and
00:49:25.960 sophistication
00:49:26.800 men must
00:49:28.380 therefore bring
00:49:29.200 their shadowed
00:49:30.380 psychic
00:49:30.700 identification
00:49:31.400 with the
00:49:32.020 divine mother
00:49:32.620 and child
00:49:33.120 into the
00:49:33.520 light
00:49:33.820 without losing
00:49:35.360 their divine
00:49:35.960 individuality
00:49:36.840 in the
00:49:37.100 process
00:49:37.640 they must
00:49:39.380 consciously
00:49:40.060 voluntarily
00:49:41.160 deliberately
00:49:42.080 and strategically
00:49:43.140 accept their
00:49:44.480 responsibility
00:49:45.180 for the
00:49:46.440 relationship
00:49:47.040 between
00:49:47.500 autonomous
00:49:48.180 female 0.86
00:49:48.660 companionship
00:49:49.580 support
00:49:50.400 love
00:49:50.920 and the
00:49:51.960 responsibility
00:49:52.540 of producing
00:49:53.280 that next
00:49:53.800 generation
00:49:54.380 this means
00:49:56.000 rejecting
00:49:56.620 among other
00:49:57.300 things
00:49:57.640 the
00:49:58.140 misbegotten
00:49:59.040 idea
00:49:59.540 of casual
00:50:00.720 sexual
00:50:01.300 gratification 0.98
00:50:02.220 sex
00:50:05.200 is either
00:50:05.760 the
00:50:06.060 impulsive
00:50:06.640 short-term
00:50:07.720 gratification
00:50:08.520 of a
00:50:08.860 domineering
00:50:09.360 biological
00:50:09.960 instinct
00:50:10.660 or the
00:50:12.440 union
00:50:12.740 of two
00:50:13.140 conscious
00:50:13.580 spirits
00:50:14.160 taking
00:50:14.840 responsibility
00:50:15.560 for what
00:50:16.360 they are
00:50:16.660 doing
00:50:17.020 the
00:50:19.160 former
00:50:19.540 is simply
00:50:20.100 not
00:50:20.420 commensurate
00:50:21.060 with the
00:50:21.840 demands
00:50:22.200 of an
00:50:22.440 advanced
00:50:22.800 civilization
00:50:23.560 which requires
00:50:24.960 the adoption
00:50:25.540 of responsibility
00:50:26.540 above all
00:50:27.500 for its
00:50:28.620 preservation
00:50:29.240 maintenance
00:50:30.060 and expansion
00:50:31.060 it is for
00:50:32.460 this reason
00:50:33.440 that the
00:50:34.520 sexualized
00:50:35.120 interactions
00:50:35.700 between young
00:50:36.380 men and
00:50:36.780 women 1.00
00:50:37.040 in universities
00:50:38.360 for example
00:50:39.200 are increasingly
00:50:41.280 and inevitably
00:50:42.160 falling under
00:50:43.380 the harsh
00:50:43.940 and tyrannical
00:50:44.860 regulation
00:50:45.760 of the
00:50:46.220 state
00:50:46.660 in the
00:50:51.480 West
00:50:51.800 we are
00:50:52.580 as well
00:50:53.200 shuttering
00:50:54.560 our great
00:50:55.020 cathedrals
00:50:55.660 those marvelous
00:50:57.480 monumental
00:50:58.320 embodiments
00:50:58.980 of the idea
00:50:59.620 of the
00:51:00.000 divine
00:51:00.340 individual
00:51:00.980 on which
00:51:02.060 our civilization
00:51:02.700 is based
00:51:03.560 this is no
00:51:06.940 mere
00:51:07.260 practical
00:51:07.900 material
00:51:08.720 matter
00:51:09.140 it's a
00:51:11.900 symbolic
00:51:12.360 and ideational
00:51:13.140 process
00:51:13.740 whose
00:51:13.980 importance
00:51:14.440 cannot be
00:51:15.000 overstated
00:51:15.680 without that
00:51:18.360 central idea
00:51:19.120 we will
00:51:20.880 dissolve
00:51:21.460 and be
00:51:22.500 lost
00:51:23.040 it is time
00:51:26.940 for each
00:51:27.360 of us
00:51:27.800 to consciously
00:51:29.060 realize
00:51:29.700 what the
00:51:30.900 great
00:51:31.180 symbolic
00:51:31.720 stories
00:51:32.280 of the
00:51:32.600 past
00:51:32.980 insist
00:51:33.420 upon
00:51:33.800 that we
00:51:35.640 are all
00:51:36.060 sons and
00:51:36.620 daughters
00:51:36.940 of the
00:51:37.360 divine
00:51:37.760 logos
00:51:38.320 consciousness
00:51:39.200 itself
00:51:39.980 bearers
00:51:41.480 of its
00:51:41.800 light
00:51:42.220 and that
00:51:44.200 we must
00:51:44.600 act in
00:51:45.060 accordance
00:51:45.460 with that
00:51:46.040 great
00:51:46.320 central
00:51:46.740 fact
00:51:47.300 lest all
00:51:48.360 hell
00:51:48.660 break
00:51:49.060 loose
00:51:49.500 this means
00:51:52.880 above all
00:51:53.520 to tell the
00:51:54.820 truth
00:51:55.120 and to care
00:51:56.080 for one
00:51:56.480 another
00:51:56.800 starting at
00:51:58.220 the level
00:51:58.600 of the
00:51:58.880 individual
00:51:59.340 and proceeding
00:51:59.940 from that
00:52:00.500 out to the
00:52:01.080 broader
00:52:01.320 reaches of
00:52:01.900 society
00:52:02.320 itself
00:52:02.800 the
00:52:03.960 alternative
00:52:04.480 as these
00:52:05.100 same
00:52:05.460 stories
00:52:05.960 have always
00:52:06.640 insisted
00:52:07.240 is the
00:52:08.820 more
00:52:09.000 permanent
00:52:09.540 instantiation
00:52:10.580 of the
00:52:10.960 horror
00:52:11.360 that we
00:52:12.900 already saw
00:52:13.760 manifest
00:52:14.560 in multiple
00:52:16.260 forms
00:52:16.920 in the
00:52:17.600 last
00:52:18.000 bloody 0.50
00:52:18.520 terrible
00:52:19.180 century
00:52:19.760 we need
00:52:25.280 to wake
00:52:25.680 up
00:52:25.960 individual
00:52:27.080 man and
00:52:27.660 woman alike
00:52:28.340 and we
00:52:29.780 need to
00:52:30.120 do it
00:52:30.380 now
00:52:30.760 each of
00:52:33.320 us must
00:52:33.840 take the
00:52:34.180 world on
00:52:34.560 our
00:52:34.720 shoulders
00:52:35.120 insofar
00:52:37.680 as we're
00:52:38.080 capable of
00:52:38.780 that
00:52:39.060 and adopt
00:52:40.840 individual
00:52:41.720 responsibility
00:52:42.760 for the
00:52:44.380 horrors
00:52:44.860 and suffering
00:52:45.720 its existence
00:52:47.120 entails
00:52:47.760 in that
00:52:50.080 we will
00:52:50.420 find the
00:52:50.980 meaning
00:52:51.420 without which
00:52:52.520 life is
00:52:53.080 merely the
00:52:53.840 suffering
00:52:54.340 that breeds
00:52:55.140 first
00:52:55.980 resentment
00:52:57.280 and then
00:52:58.940 the desire
00:52:59.640 for vengeance
00:53:00.420 and destruction
00:53:01.540 we need
00:53:06.100 to take
00:53:06.440 responsibility
00:53:07.280 instead of
00:53:08.560 incessantly
00:53:09.620 insisting
00:53:10.820 on our
00:53:11.540 rights
00:53:12.080 we need
00:53:14.580 to become
00:53:15.040 adults
00:53:15.560 instead of
00:53:16.480 aged
00:53:16.920 children
00:53:17.500 we need
00:53:19.760 to tell
00:53:20.100 the truth
00:53:20.720 we need
00:53:23.840 justice
00:53:24.280 and compassion
00:53:25.120 conjoined
00:53:25.940 not judgment
00:53:27.560 and pity
00:53:28.300 which crush
00:53:29.600 and devour
00:53:30.220 so
00:53:34.720 in the
00:53:36.500 coming year
00:53:37.100 plan to
00:53:39.460 make yourself
00:53:40.060 a better
00:53:40.440 person
00:53:40.960 fix
00:53:43.700 fix what
00:53:43.920 you can
00:53:44.460 and would
00:53:45.000 fix
00:53:45.600 start
00:53:47.360 now
00:53:47.900 there's
00:53:49.760 something
00:53:50.100 right in
00:53:50.820 front of
00:53:51.300 you
00:53:51.520 demanding
00:53:52.680 repair
00:53:53.600 calling out
00:53:54.560 to your
00:53:54.860 conscience
00:53:55.340 if you
00:53:55.880 would only
00:53:56.400 attend to
00:53:57.000 it
00:53:57.220 for your
00:53:58.040 corrective
00:53:58.660 efforts
00:53:59.140 however
00:53:59.960 primitive
00:54:00.520 they may
00:54:01.060 yet be
00:54:01.740 start
00:54:04.680 small
00:54:05.280 as you
00:54:08.320 master
00:54:08.780 the
00:54:09.020 process
00:54:09.520 you can
00:54:10.240 safely
00:54:10.760 and
00:54:11.020 competently
00:54:11.660 expand
00:54:12.180 your
00:54:12.400 reach
00:54:12.740 you will
00:54:13.800 then be
00:54:14.200 able to
00:54:14.580 fix
00:54:14.840 bigger
00:54:15.280 things
00:54:15.860 instead of
00:54:16.640 making them
00:54:17.140 worse
00:54:17.580 in the
00:54:17.940 arrogance
00:54:18.320 of your 1.00
00:54:18.820 ignorance 1.00
00:54:19.360 if you 0.99
00:54:23.120 do this
00:54:23.800 there will
00:54:25.820 be less
00:54:26.260 pointless
00:54:26.760 and
00:54:28.640 unnecessary
00:54:29.340 suffering
00:54:30.320 and the
00:54:32.100 world for
00:54:32.660 all its
00:54:33.120 shortcomings
00:54:33.760 and faults
00:54:34.480 will be a
00:54:35.560 better place
00:54:36.280 until we
00:54:41.660 can imagine
00:54:42.220 better than
00:54:43.020 that
00:54:43.360 that's
00:54:44.460 meaning
00:54:44.860 and purpose
00:54:45.720 enough
00:54:46.540 happy
00:54:52.100 new
00:54:52.360 year
00:54:52.620 and best
00:54:54.000 wishes to
00:54:54.640 you all
00:54:55.180 thank you
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00:55:31.340 you
00:55:31.940 it's
00:55:33.520 we
00:55:34.700 it's
00:55:38.520 it's
00:55:39.120 it's
00:55:39.440 can be found
00:55:41.200 it's
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