On this episode of "The Jordan Syatt Show", Jordan Peterson talks about the recent death of Charlie Kirk and how he is processing it. Jordan also talks about why he is a hypocrite and why he thinks Charlie should have been allowed to do what he did.
00:03:42.080And maybe more than anything, the thing that touched people the most was his testimony of his faith, that he believed in God.
00:03:50.120And, you know, I didn't like what he advocated for politics, but what he advocated for Christianity, that's the part that people are going to remember him for.
00:03:57.780That's the part that people, when they think Charlie Kirk, they don't think of the Republican debate bro.
00:04:03.260They think about a guy that was preaching marriage, values, you know, decent Christian values, Christ himself and his sacrifice on the cross.
00:04:14.020And when they held the memorial yesterday, I'm going to tell you the truth.
00:04:17.200I thought there were things about the memorial that were distasteful.
00:04:20.240But one thing that was exceptional about it is the way that the name of Christ was proclaimed to everybody.
00:04:26.340And I think that, you know, when you see someone die like that, the reason it's jarring for people is because we realize that we're all going to die.
00:04:33.320Suddenly, unexpectedly, you know, and like him, he's 31 years old.
00:04:37.520Nobody expects that a 31-year-old with that kind of money and influence is going to die all of a sudden.
00:04:59.620And what that then naturally makes us think about is, well, what does it all really mean then?
00:05:04.700If you could get stopped in your tracks at any time like that, what actually really matters in life?
00:05:09.660And what mattered about Charlie, when you see in the end, is it's not actually the times when he was maybe taking the piss and saying, what is a woman?
00:05:19.380It's the times when he was sincerely professing his faith, talking about moral virtues and the moral virtues that he lived in his deeds.
00:05:25.820And so to me, I guess it kind of, it was a change in perspective, kind of realizing everybody asks the same question.
00:05:31.900How will I be remembered, you know, when we get unexpectedly killed or when we die or when bad things happen?
00:05:37.800And it's a challenge to kind of live every day thinking, could today be the day, you know, and what did I do on my final day?
00:06:22.240But I do think that I harshly judged him.
00:06:25.440I think when anybody dies, you feel that way.
00:06:27.840And I think especially since he died, you look at him and you realize this guy was not actually the worst guy in the world.
00:06:33.640You know, he was kind of my nemesis in a way.
00:06:37.020And maybe I was his on the right wing.
00:06:39.680But I realized that we had so much more in common than we disagreed with, actually.
00:06:43.460So do you think when you hear the statement, let's find a way to lower the temperatures, do you in your mind say, oh, shut up with this lower the temperature bullshit?
00:08:06.200That is my feeling, the vibe that I have, right?
00:08:10.620But when you hear the words, we got to lower the temperature, what's the first thing you think about?
00:08:16.640I think it's kind of just a wrong perspective on it because I'm an intense person, and I think this is a decisive moment for America.
00:08:25.800And, you know, what really set me, what really made me beside myself is not necessarily that someone killed Kirk because there's a lot of crazy people out here that unfortunately do carry out acts of violence.
00:08:37.460It was that there were like 100,000 liberals who are in their right mind that were celebrating, that were glib about it, that crashed vigils, that danced, that laughed, that mocked it, that said it was a good thing.
00:09:23.580I think that we should be intense, but we should also move in love.
00:09:26.260And what that means is, you know, I said this on my show, people kill each other with bullets and literally murder each other and take their lives.
00:09:34.740We also kill each other by destroying each other's reputations.
00:09:37.660When we lie about somebody, when we gossip about somebody, when you go and actually do the examine of conscience at confession at a Catholic church,
00:09:46.200and you go through all the different sins, and you say, because you have to contemplate, you have to confess everything, every mortal sin, you have to confess all of it.
00:09:53.940So first, you examine it systematically.
00:11:02.120I think that, I mean, do you think that after people saw Charlie Kirk get murdered, there weren't at least some people that said, we have to match the left?
00:13:02.300I think you probably have some plans on one day running.
00:13:04.340They showed me a clip when he said, I want 100,000 people that are making money, low-key, underground, nobody knows, where you're kind of breaking that up.
00:13:16.180You have your own certain ideas, philosophies that you want to go.
00:13:20.040But I think that this next part, excuse me, I think this next part, as we go through it, this is an MLK moment.
00:13:30.540This was the MLK of Republicans and conservatives, even though Martin Luther King was a Republican and his wife called Nixon to get some help.
00:13:40.080They didn't call back, and then he called John F. Kennedy.
00:13:42.240She called, and then that's when they flipped.
00:13:44.000I'm going to be a Democrat, and then next year, no, and then you got Barry Goldwater, and the whole thing is a mess.
00:13:48.900African-Americans were conservatives for many, many years, statistically.