Mondays of Meaning

June 12th 2023 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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This week, I discuss how learning to treat yourself properly helps your relationship with your spouse and builds a foundation for your kids. Then, Dr. Steve Templeton joins me to talk about the behavioral immune system, treatment during COVID, and fear versus truth. In the archives, I revisit a conversation I had with a former mobster about his father.

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Why Treating Each Other Properly Creates a Platform for Having Children

How do you treat someone in your moment-to-moment interactions so that the relationship blossoms into continual love? That is a good thing to aim at. And there is no difference between doing that and treating yourself properly. They are the same thing. 

You can imagine if you treated yourself properly and your partner properly, and you really learned how to do that — this is a deep problem, and you have to be challenged to do it constantly — first of all, there would be nothing better that can possibly happen to you. And second, you would have the perfect platform for having children. 

Because now the children come into the world and there are two of you. You are side by side, and you are treating each other like you are extensions of each other, which you are, because you are stuck with this person forever. Then the child has the joint amalgam of two personalities that have had to bargain and negotiate to produce unity. And the child is introduced to the fact of that unity, which is the higher-order structure that governs the marriage.

In Jordan’s series “On Marriage,” he discusses the fundamentals of relationships, the critical aspects of marriage, and the beauty that comes from this commitment. Most unique to this series are the personal stories Jordan shares of he and Tammy’s marriage in these three episodes. To watch more content with Jordan, join DailyWire+ for exclusive content not available elsewhere.

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This Week On The Podcast

Harming Children for the Appearance of Safety | Dr. Steve Templeton | EP 366

In this episode, Dr. Steve Templeton, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine Terre Haute, and I break down the “discussed response” of the behavioral immune system, the pathogenic treatment of people during the COVID pandemic, the shift toward perceptual safety over common good, the programmatically induced fear that censors open discussion, and fear's win over truth.

From The Archives

When Your Father Is the Mafia

Michael Franzese, a former mobster affiliated with the Colombo family, talks with me about his relationship with his father and the lessons he learned from him.


Thank you for reading, 

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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