Tag: Jordan Peterson
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It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
Jordan Peterson
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It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.
Jordan Peterson
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I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
Jordan Peterson
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I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
Jordan Peterson
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Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.
Jordan Peterson
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The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
Jordan Peterson
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I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.
Jordan Peterson
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That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
Jordan Peterson
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You may say, ‘Well, dragons don’t exist.’ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‘predator’ and the category ‘dragon’ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
Jordan Peterson
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Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.
Jordan Peterson