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" One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women! "

Jordan Peterson

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" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "

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" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "

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" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "

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" It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women. "

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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. "

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" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "

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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. "

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" It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. "

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" Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. "

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" You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything. "

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" There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s. "

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