The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

rape of the mind 1956 one of the best books on brainwashing I've ever read

You know I read a great book called The Mystery of Capital, a Hormando de Soto.

De Soto I was going to bring him up.

Yeah yeah De Soto's great man that's a great book and he points out that in some of the so-called developing countries especially the more corrupt ones not only does it take multiple years to do anything at all legally but by the time you jump through all the hoops to do it legally the laws have been changed so that what you do is no longer valid.

Her forthcoming book The Heart of Achita, available soon through magatweid.com will provide detailed suggestions for how to accelerate progress for Africans.

In 2011 he published a popular book Deceit and Self Deception, fooling yourself the better to fool others, published in the US as the folly of fools.

It's been translated into 11 languages including Korean, Chinese and Taiwanese and is widely regarded as a definitive treatment of the subject.

In 2015 he published a personal memoir Wild Life Adventures of an evolutionary biologist translated into Spanish and Polish.

in 2022 I haven't got the year exactly right but 1637 1640 or somewhere near that it was Milton wrote area of pagodica which is an empowerment of great bit was deciding then that you know squirrels pamphlets usually of of a religious orientation had to be had to be prohibited had to be censored

of all the great speeches about free expression the value of books the value of publication of all the defenses of real free speech and real free thought the area of pagodica is classic and as Milton says you know whoever knew truth to be defeated in an open contest

I followed Ken Zucker's work on the trans on trans kids...Zucker worked at a place called Camage in Toronto...major mental health institution...and he was a mainline scientific researcher...he ran a gender dysphoria treatment clinic...probably the clinic...and he was the editor of the main journals where research on that sort of topic was published.

what Zucker his treatment program for kids with gender dysphoria was quite straightforward...he observed as a consequence of his careful research that about 85% of kids who manifest extreme gender dysphoria...80 to 85% of them would desist on their own by the age of 18 or 19...and so his hypothesis was leave them the hell alone because you do the least harm that way and most of them will settle into their bodies as they mature.

but what he also showed...is that a very large proportion of kids with gender dysphoria grow up and are homosexual...and so what that means...what that certainly means is that the vast majority...it might be as high as 80% of the kids who are being convinced now that they inhabit the wrong bodies and are being surgically mutilated...the overwhelming majority of them are gay.

I've rarely researched or been able to talk with someone who has so many interests that dovetail with mine and very much looking forward to this conversation.

His most recent book, which I recently read is The Aristocracy of Talent, How Maritocracy Made the Modern World.

So you publish this Aristocracy of Talent, and it's the continuance of an interest that you've held for a long time. How is the book being received?

Well, I'm glad to say that the book has been extremely well received in Britain. It's been reviewed by all the leading periodicals on both the left and the rights. Has been widely discussed on the radio and in various media outlets.

That's why I read Jung extensively and Nietzsche and Dostoevsky and Sonshinets and those are the people I ran across others as well, that who seemed to have some answers as far as I could tell.