The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

I love that you started with that because that's the bit in your book which I've read that jumped out at me because that's what I say to parents.

I've worked with all kinds of families so my work is about creating the optimum situation for families no matter what the whether they're married or what kind of family situation they're in.

Yeah and this is why when I research parent books parenting advice books and and I think the parenting advice industry has doesn't get enough scrutiny actually I don't I'm not big I'm not a big fan of parenting books but they tend to be either the kind of quite authoritarian or the quite liberal.

And you know I'm in my book I point out that actually there are good things about both are necessary things about both as individuation and integration and you know both of those things have and so you take the bits from each model.

And you put them together because both of those are important and some of those some of the advice in the more authoritarian books is good some of it I don't think is is good at all.

He went away and studied. He wrote a book, you can still get a modern translation of it called "Real Christianity" and the subtitle is the difference between what people think it is and what it really is.

And one of these great supporters was Josiah Wedgewood, the pottery maker, and he struck what is regarded by a lot of people historians as the first political slogan in a brilliant piece of pottery. A credibly intricate, best relief, I think that's the word you use for it. Of an African man looking up pleadingly. It's a credibly lifelike. Beautiful piece of work, and it's white on a wedged wood blue background. And the thing underneath it is not "Am I not a man and a brother."

And I've been trying to think through. You talked about this book Wilberforce wrote about. I'm going to say "True Christianity". And I've been trying to think through what it might mean practically. And graspably. I suppose. That each person is in some sense of axiomatic worth.

So this is from your book in a Los Angeles Times review of The End of Nature the Kibben's influential book of 25 years ago predicting catastrophic climate change David M. Graber research biologist for the National Park Service wrote this summary of McKibben's message McKibben is a biosentrist and so am I we are not interested in the utility of a particular species or free flowing river or ecosystem to mankind they have intrinsic value more value to me than another human being that's a very interesting thing to say or a billion of them which is also a very interesting thing to say human happiness and certainly human fecundity are not as important as a wild and healthy planet are no social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature but that isn't true somewhere along the line at about a billion years ago maybe half that we quit the contract and became a cancer we had become a plague upon ourselves and upon the earth it is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil fuel consumption and the third world its suicidal consumption of landscape until such time as homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along

...I labor not only in the present book my own history, Bibi: My Story, but in a previous book, a place among the nations, to debunk...

...usually polemical books are challenged...in my case critics from the left they'd find you know some straggler some factoid that is wrong some formulation that is unfortunate and so on okay not nobody ever challenged it got in those days rave reviews from the New York Times from great writers like Connacruz of Brian and Paul Johnson and others these are great writers and it wasn't challenge okay my current book has not been challenged on historical facts nothing people can argue about my opinions but they don't argue about my facts...

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I can recommend Ian Banks as an author, English author I think, you wrote a series of books on the... you called the Culture novels, and it was a world where there were humans and then there was AI, the smartest humans, and AI that were done more than humans, but there was some AI that were much, much smarter.

And they, they lived in harmony because they mostly all pursued what they wanted to pursue, humans pursued human goals and super smart AI pursued super smart AI goals, and you know, they, they communicated in the work with each other but... but they, they mostly, you know, they're different when they were different enough that that was problematic, their goals were different enough that they didn't overlap.

I wrote this book in order to try to make some order in this cultural revolution.

These woke neo-Marxists are obviously not liberals and it seems that the old liberalism doesn't have the fight and the firepower to be able to roll this back.

The reason that I that I bothered with the historical chapters in in the Conservatism book is is because I think there's a a widespread misunderstanding about about conservative thinkers about Fortescue and Selden and Burke and and and for that matter you know Washington and Adams and Hamilton.

The actual view is something much more like what you were describing that there's corruption in everything but more than that every good system decays every good system runs down.

The principal job of the conservative is not to it to to hold on tight to whatever exists it's to look for restoration it's to identify what has become corrupt and decayed and to look for a model either earlier in history or sometimes even just you know looking at the neighbors.

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