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The following is a transcribed excerpt from one of Dr. Jordan Petersons 2020 lectures. In this segment, he discusses moving forward, preparing for the future, identifying where you are, mapping the territory of your past, and bringing positivity into your life. You can listen to or watch more from Dr. Peterson on DailyWire+.

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There are deep reasons for how and why you perceive things as you do in the world. Perception is tightly related and associated to action, to movement forward, and to emotion and those things are very important to know. For example, you live in a map or a story, and because wherever you are is not as good as it could be, you go somewhere that is somewhat better. That can occur in different timeframes. Maybe you have a plan for the next minute: You are hungry, and you want to go somewhere to eat. Maybe it could be for the next hour or the next day or the next week or the next year. But, basically, what you are trying to do is take where you are (point A) and make it better (point B). So you are always somewhere that is not quite as good as it should be, and you are always going somewhere that is somewhat better at least, that is the hope.

This is somewhat unfortunate in some sense because it means you cannot be satisfied with where you are. But how can you be satisfied when you have problems coming your way? Even if everything is ok right now which it probably is not, but even if it was that does not mean everything is going to be ok tomorrow, next week, next year, or five years from now. You have the future, your future self, and your family to take care of. Maybe you have your community to take care of. Because the way things are is not good enough, you are going to fix them a bit, which you do across different levels of resolution.

First, you identify where you are. If you are mixed up, one of the problems you might have is that you do not know where you are. Often, people have to go to therapy or talk to someone for a long time to find out where they are because their experience might have scattered them everywhere, and they feel they have come apart at the seams that things have fallen apart, that they are in chaos, that they do not know where they are. If this happens to you, then you are in trouble because how are you going to plot a course forward into the future if you do not know where you are?

You have to bring yourself up-to-date, which you can know because it is fairly straightforward: If you are obsessed with memories of the past (more than 18 months old) and most of those are negative and anxiety-provoking, then there is a lot of you that is stuck in the past. What that means is that you did not map the territory well enough, and the parts of your brain that are alarm systems anxiety systems are telling you that there are holes in the way you are looking at the world. They are saying that you fell in those holes once, you do not know where they are, you do not know how to fill them, you do not know how to walk around them and you cannot forget them. If you have memories like that, you remember them, they make you feel anxious and negative, and you are stuck in the past. Your body is still reacting as if there is an emergency that could happen again that you have not fixed. It does not matter if it was your fault because the alarm system does not care. When your smoke detector goes off, it is not relevant whether the cause was your fault. The smoke detector just says, House is on fire and that is a bad thing.

Your anxiety systems are similar. If they are tagging old systems with anxiety, then you have to do something about it, or you will be tortured by those memories forever because that is how the alarm system works. So maybe you need to go back there and clean things up. You must figure out how it happened. Ask, what sort of role did I play? Even if it was a minor role, that does not matter because the point is that you do not want to be put in the same vulnerable position again so anything you can do to strengthen yourself is good. Often, if it is a really old memory, if you were a child, you probably have a variety of techniques at hand that you could use to deal with a situation like that because you are not a child now. But you have to update that part of your brain that still thinks you are four-years-old. Lots of people still have parts of them that are still stuck in a traumatic childhood experience. Thus, you need to know where you are.

When you decide to move from one point to another, going somewhere slightly better, that is good. Your positive emotion systems run on a neurochemical called dopamine the same neurochemical system that drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, and alcohol, for some people, affect dramatically and make people feel far better than they should, which is part of their danger. It is a very fundamental system. The dopamine kicks in with a kick of positive emotion if you are going somewhere that is worth going. So how do you get a little bit of positivity in your life? This standalone neurochemical system that is rooted very deeply in the brains exploratory circuitry a very ancient system is happy when you have somewhere to go. Then it is happy when you are going there.

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now listen to or watch his popular lectures on DailyWire+.

Be sure to PRE-ORDER Dr.Petersons latest book: We Who Wrestle With God.

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Wherever You Are Is Not As Good As It Could Be: Plot A Course Forward - The Daily Wire

Is it really news if an unmarried, childless, 48-year-old science and self-improvement podcaster lied to some women he was dating? Evidently so: the latest New York magazine expos devotes 8,000 words to explaining how popular podcaster and Stanford professor Andrew Huberman maintained multiple long-term girlfriends, all of whom thought they were in a monogamous relationship.

The fact that it is news highlights two features of the contemporary culture that emanates especially from Americas West Coast. Firstly, the gulf between what California-inspired therapy culture promises and what it delivers; and secondly, the viciousness with which contemporary audiences now routinely go after high-profile role models especially men.

Huberman has reportedly been marinated in therapy culture since his parents divorced messily in his teens. According to the article, he seems expert in wielding its vocabulary to convey emotional attunement to his multiple girlfriends. I hear you saying you are angry and hurt, he texts in response to one discovering infidelity. I will hear you as much as long as needed for us [sic].

As a discursive register, therapy-speak was developed with the aim of enabling sincerity and authentic encounter; Hubermans proficiency with it suggests that with skilled bad-faith use its equally effective as a tool for manipulation. Still more striking, though, is how neatly this story fits another contemporary pattern: the speed and urgency with which male role models are first deified and then, just as swiftly, attacked.

Im not sure it really is newsworthy that a highly intelligent and highly sexed man with a painful family history and a world-class vocabulary for emotional manipulation should have had multiple concurrent girlfriends. It is news, though, for a high-profile male role model to have feet of clay in a culture that seems deeply conflicted about masculinity and authority. Before Huberman there was Jordan Peterson, another clearly wounded man who offered advice particularly to young men, and who subsequently and very publicly imploded.

The moment such a male role model achieves prominence, the hunt is on for the ways in which he is less than perfect. These are then wielded to deflate any pretensions he may have had to serving as a figure for admiration or emulation. Its a pattern that repeats, on a symbolic level, the repeated statue-toppling incidents since the BLM riots. Its hard to avoid the sense that as with the statues, whats being attacked is less the specific sins of a particular flawed hero and more the idea that any male figures should stand out and be emulated full stop.

Its common, when discussing the so-called crisis of masculinity, to blame it on loss of economic opportunity, the changing educational landscape, or other structural factors. A more uncomfortable possibility, though, is that at least part of this crisis is attributable less to structural shortcomings, or even the failings of individual men, than something more insidious. That is, a kind of baseline cultural hostility to the idea of prominent men entirely, particularly those who offer themselves as role models.

Heroes have always had feet of clay. Even Achilles had one weak spot. This isnt news. But today, for some reason, its become a sackable offence. Im perhaps less troubled than some by Hubermans very ordinary philandering, but the point is that if he wasnt in the stocks for infidelity, the Greek chorus of cultural levellers would have found something else to attack.

Its unclear what is driving this collective determination to be disappointed by every would-be avatar of masculine competence and agency. But I suspect that in the terms beloved of California therapy-speak we wont resolve the so-called crisis of masculinity until we work it through.

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Is Andrew Huberman the new Jordan Peterson? - UnHerd

God is the highest value in the hierarchy of values God is how we imaginatively and collectively represent the existence and action of consciousness across time

God is that which eternally dies and is reborn in the pursuit of higher being and truth.

Jordan Peterson, during his June 2018 debate with Sam Harris.

When you understand the level of evil in the world, you understand that (following the second law of thermodynamics) the only equal but opposite force to that must be God

Even God as a concept becomes a real thing. If you have a thousand people and they believe in God and that makes them act righteously, even as a concept God becomes a real force.

Andrew Tate

Whatever disagreements they might have, what Peterson and Tate are both expressing in the above quotes is a false faith, a bluff. They may believe in God but find that their faith is inchoate so far as their ability to articulate it. Thats a question we cannot judgewhat they do articulate, however, is technically speaking an idol.

To worship an imaginative and collective representation of consciousness across time, that is, within our heads and within time, rather than beyond these, is technically idolatry.

To worship a force that is opposite but equal to evil, and a concept whose reality consists in affecting behaviour, is no different.

Given the prominence of Tate, I should addalthough it isnt the focus of this essaythat whether or not he is guilty of the crimes for which he stands accusedhe obviously promoted moral rot through gambling and a webcam business. This track record remains significant insofar as his legions of fans have yet to hear him explicitly repent, so far as I know (a lack of repentance which may be related to his tendency to argue for Gods existence as a socially useful operating system rather than as a genuine transcendent source of moral truth).

It is a technical matter of religiosity, to my mind, that sin should be repented from publicly if sin was promoted publicly. During his interview with Candace Owens, the two agreed that one should not regret past mistakes. Fair enough. But a mother who had a child with a man who was not her husband need not regret the life of that child to repent of the adultery.

Tates un-repentance for pushing moral corruption may well go hand in hand with his tendency to think about God as a social operating system.

We have here two prominent, globally-known spokesmen for what we might call the anti-woke, sociologically right-wing side of things. That they invoke personal and social utility to justify belief in God, rather than classical theistic formulations, at once more robust and more straightforward, strongly suggests that we are dealing with what the historian Oswald Spengler called second religiosity (or second religiousness) in his Decline of the West. What this term means is that earlier, earnestly-held religious beliefs are rehashed largely as a cultural stance against declining social conditions and the establishment.

I should add that I dont agree with the details of Spenglers narrative of historical development and decline, but this particular concept is very helpful in understanding where we are today.

In fairness, Spengler tends to describe second religiosity as more of a dreamy, soft-headed desire to believe, a giving up on proofs and precision. On the face of it, this sounds more like New Ageism than the masculine affectation of a Tate would allow.

Ultimately, however, the Peterson-Tate line fits Spenglers model, not only in relinquishing the classical traditions philosophical lucidity, but also in being a late, pseudo-morph that comes across as embarrassed at the older, simpler idea of God and feels the need to rest it instead on empiricist, psycho-social grounds.

It isnt the social and political content that Peterson wants to give religious faith thats the problem.

In fact, I would go quite far in this direction and point out that the Bible often refers to nations as units of spiritual edification; communities of salvation.

It isnt wrong for people to articulate universal principles, including the worship of God, in the context of what some would refer to as nationalism. Furthermore, historically, reactions against treacherous, exploitative political elites have tended to take on some kind of a charismatic, spiritual character; upheaval against a system that is found to hate its own core demographic is often marked by the character of religious revival, as the historian Arnold Toynbee points out (see Revolt of the Core). Todays truckers and farmers demonstrating against the policies that cause their purchasing power to plummet throughout the West are an example.

Philosophically speaking, the universal must always be expressed in a particular. You dont get to have beauty in the abstract. A transcendent quality like beauty requires that the beautiful racing horse be fully a horse, the beautiful sunset fully a sunset.

If a universal good is pursued abstractly (rather than treating particular wholes and their harmony as its proper manifestation), then this pursuit damages life. Concepts of unity and justice turn into terrible experiments of totalitarian homogenization and monocultural globalism.

Spiritual principles and religious faith must be pursued in terms of existing local cultural forms and identities. Religious traditionalists will often deny this and devalue politics, culture, local identity as altogether secular, inferior forms of human endeavour.

The mistake of many religious traditionalists towards excessive abstraction mirrors the mistake of the second religiosity. One denies particularity from above, saying that politics and identity dont matter; the other from below, making it all about politics.

A culture, a community, a nation, no less than a person or household, is a little archetype, a very specific name for God. Nothing exists but that God is saying something through it. If the second religiosity is to give way and the rebellion of the Wests internal proletarian is to constitute itself as a church (to use Toynbees idiosyncratic terms), it must ultimately reject its own empire. It would need to be anti-Caesarian (the political correlate of second religiousness, per Spengler), and instead reach for a new communitarianism of the sort effected by the Christian revolution when it transmogrified the Roman slave-owning villa into a medieval village.

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The Godless Return: Peterson, Tate, and Spengler's Second Religiosity - The European Conservative

The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastMar 25, 2024

In this DW+ exclusive Sessions interview, Dr. Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein discuss the evolutionary and individual perception of consciousness, protective biases, when not to change your mind, and the necessity of intellectual freedom in order to avoid pitfalls and foster progress.

Dr. Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist who specializes in adaptive trade-offs. His current focus is on the interaction between genetic and cultural evolution. He has studied tent-making behavior in neotropical bats and worked for 14 years as a professor at The Evergreen State College. He has testified to the U.S. Congress, and been a visiting fellow at Princeton University. He hosts the DarkHorse Podcast and is a New York Times best-selling author. Bret has been a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and has done live events with Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein, Peter Boghossian, Sam Harris, Douglas Murray and has been interviewed by Bill Maher, Russell Brand, Glenn Loury, Dax Shepard, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Glenn Beck, Bari Weiss, Derrick Jensen, and Lex Fridman, among many others.

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2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events

Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/

For Bret Weinstein:

DarkHorse Locals Community https://darkhorse.locals.com/

On X https://x.com/BretWeinstein

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Sessions | Bret Weinstein - The Daily Wire

The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastMar 21, 2024

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in-person with Steven Bonnell II, also known as Destiny. They discuss the differences between the left and the right, force versus invitation, the feasibility and pitfalls of command economies, the dangers of ideology, and government response to worldwide crises.

Destiny, also known as Steven Bonnell II, is a prominent political commentator and content creator known for his debate skills and provocative takes on various issues. With a passion for gaming, politics, and philosophy, Destiny engages in lively discussions that often challenge the status quo.

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2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events

Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/

For Steven Bonnell II:

Destinys YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/@destiny

On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/Destiny/

On X https://twitter.com/TheOmniLiberal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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