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In this week’s edition, I discuss the internal chaos that comes when life falls apart and the decision that must be made to overcome such a state. Then, I talk with author and professor of politics Eric Kaufmann about cognitive development, cultural power, and education. From the archives, I look back on a segment of a lecture I gave that denotes where we can learn different modes of being and why some such modes create good in our lives.
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Advice
Remedy Your Course And Rise Again
When you have made an error, fallen off the pathway, and deviated from what you know you should do, you are thrust into a state of internal chaos, worry, and concern — the unknown. You do not know what to do.
Your life can be organized and going very well, and then something can come up and everything changes. Some axiom that you were living by — it might be the existence of a partner, a job, your health, any of those things — disappears. And you go somewhere when that happens. It is a state of being. You are still in the same world, but it is not the same at all anymore; everything about it is different. It is negative and dark, and you do not know what to do. You are confused.
When things have fallen apart and you have ground yourself into bits trying to figure out what happened, you could realize you were actually playing a causal role. Maybe you even knew it at the time and you did not attend to it. Sometimes, however, you are so depressed that you assume you were playing a causal role and you were not. It is not easy to figure out by any stretch of the imagination. But when you are down in that chaos, you must decide you are going to do what you are supposed to do instead. You get to rise up again, renewed.
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With a brand new introduction from liturgical artist and Christian thinker Jonathan Pageau, this biblical series by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson explores the psychological significance of the biblical stories in the book of Genesis. You can begin with episode 1, "Introduction to the Idea of God," in which Jordan lays the foundation for considering the notion of sovereignty and power and God as akin to the spirit or pattern inherent in the human hierarchy of authority.
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‘An Extraordinarily Useful Vision Of Governance’: The Basic Principles Of Conservative Thinking
There is a principle that governs conservative thinking that is actually derived from the Catholic Church, and then even more deeply, derived from an older biblical tradition based on the Old Testament Exodus story, that proper governance — proper distribution of responsibility — should follow the principle of subsidiarity.
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Potential Solutions to Fix Mass Indoctrination | Eric Kaufmann | EP 453
In this episode, I talk with author and professor of politics Eric Kaufmann. We discuss where the instinctive feminine ethos goes wrong, when beliefs solidify in cognitive development, how the loss of cultural power comes about, and how to potentially fix the corruption of education.
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There Are Ways That You Can Act To Make Things Better
To act out what led you to despair will only make situations far worse, and suffering does not justify any desire to make being end. In other words, the answer to despair cannot be to produce more suffering. Rather, there are ways of being in the world that justify the world and others that make the world unbearable. The narrative that runs through the Biblical stories put those two ways of being in conversation with one another, demonstrating that being requires limitation and suffering, but there are modes of being that allow for good.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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